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Events Colloquium 2002 - 2003

"Emergence vs. Fundamentalism in Metaphysics and the Natural Sciences" 
Michael Silberstein (Philosophy Department, Elizabethown College) 
October 24 

"Naturalism and Improper Functions" 
Richard Manning (Philosophy Department, Carlton University, Ottawa) 
November 14 

"Ergodic Theory and the Justification of Probabilities" 
Janneke van Lith (Philosophy Department, University of Utrecht) 
November 21 

"David Lewis's Thesis of the Asymmetry of Overdetermination, or The Perils of Armchair Physics" 
Mathias Frisch (Philosophy Department, Northwestern University) 
*December 11, SKN 1115 

"Peirce and Scientific Realism" 
Ilya Farber (Philosophy Department, George Washington University) 
December 12 

"What Science Education Researchers Talk About When They Talk About 'Epistemology':  
An Introduction to Students' Views of Knowledge" 
Andrew Elby (Physics Education, UMCP) 
February 6  

"Cognitive Neuroscience and the Dissociable Self" 
Carl Craver (Philosophy Department, Washington University)  
February 13  

"Remembering Mechanisms: The Long-Term Discovery of Long-Term Potentiation" 
Carl Craver (Philosophy Department, Washington University)  
Co-sponsored with NACS 
*Friday, February 14, 12:00 noon, Biol-Psych Building, Room 1208  

"Gibbs and Asymptotic Relations Between Theories" 
Robert Batterman (Philosophy Department, Ohio State) 
Gibbs Double Centennial Symposium, co-sponsored with NIST 
*Wednesday, March 5, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Physics 1410  

"What is Information?" 
Benjamin Schumacher (Physics Department, Kenyon College) 
Co-sponsored with Department of Computer Science and UMIACS 
*Friday, April 4, 11 a.m., Computer Science Instructional Center  

"Who Invented the Copenhagen Interpretation? A Study in Mythology"  
Don Howard (Philosophy Department, Notre Dame University)  
April 10  

"R.A. Fisher and Randomised Experimental Design" 
Nancy Hall (Philosophy Department, University of Maryland)  
April 17  

"Keeping Time: Probability, Mechanisms, and the Molecular Clock" 
Michael Dietrich (Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College) 
Co-sponsored with BEES  
*Monday, April 28  

"The Truth in Pictures" 
Laura Perini (Philosophy, Virginia Tech)  
May 8  

"New Directions in the Foundations of Physics"  
A Memorial Conference for Rob Clifton (1964 - 2002) 
American Institute of Physics, College Park, May 2 - 4, 2003 
Speakers include: Jeffrey Bub, Michael Dickson, Hans Halvorson, Lucien Hardy, Adrian Kent, David Malament, Itamar Pitowsky, Laura Ruetsche, Rob Spekkens, Jos Uffink.  
Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Faculty of Arts and Science, the University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Philosophy, the University of Pittsburgh Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Georgetown University Graduate School, Georgetown University Philosophy Department, the University of Maryland (College Park) College of Arts and Humanities, the University of Maryland (College Park) Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences, the University of Maryland (Baltimore County) Department of Physics, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, the American Institute of Physics Center for the History of Physics, and co-ordinated through the Foundations of Physics Group (UMCP, UMBC, JHU, and Georgetown University). 
For further information, contact Jeffrey Bub at jbub@carnap.umd.edu

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