2003 - 04

THURSDAYS 4:00 PM; ROOM 1116, IPST BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (unless otherwise noted)

Sponsored by UMCP College of Arts and Humanities and UMCP Insitute for Physical Science and Technology.

November 7 3:00 pm Mathematics Building Room 3206	DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR LECTURE SERIES "Is Mathematics the Key to the Universe? Variations on a Theme of Eugene Wigner"	STEVEN BRUSH Institute of Physical Science and Technology & Department of History
November 13	"A Relational Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity"	JOSEPH BERKOVITZ Philosophy Department UMBC
November 20	"Can Quantum Cryptography Imply Quantum Mechanics? Three Toy Theories."	HANS HALVORSON Philosophy Department Princeton University
December 4	"Logicism and the Analysis of Number"	WILLIAM DEMOPOULOS Philosophy Department University of Western Ontario
February 26 Skinner Building Room 1112	"Scientific Realism: The Metaphysical Issue"	MICHAEL DEVITT Distinguished Professor Graduate Center CUNY
March 4	"Can Conditioning on the 'Past Hypothesis' Militate Against the Reversibility Objections?"	ERIC WINSBERG Philosophy Department University of S Florida
March 11	"Closed Causal Loops and the Bilking Argument"	JENANN ISMAEL Philosophy Department University of Arizona
March 15 Monday, 3:30 pm Skinner Building Room 1115	"Negative Probabilities and Quantum Interference"	FRED KRONZ Philosophy Department U of Texas, Austin
April 1	"Quantum Decision Theory"	PETER LEWIS Philosophy Department University of Miami
April 7 Wednesday, 4:00 pm Skinner Building Room 1115 Joint Colloquium with Philosophy	"Laws of Nature: Their Stability, Their Necessity, and the Autonomy of Inexact Sciences"	MARC LANGE Philosophy Department University of N Carolina Chapel Hill
April 29 6:00 pm Skinner Building Room 1116 Graduate Seminar on Causation	"Causation as Folk Science"	JOHN NORTON HPS University of Pittsburgh
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The Discussion Group on current problems in the philosophy of physics meets on Monday afternoons at 3:30 pm in the College Perk Coffeehouse. Current topic: entropy and counterfactual and causal asymmetries. Readings by David Albert, Barry Loewer, Doug Kutach, and Mathias Frisch.

For further information, contact Jeffrey Bub at: jbub@carnap.umd.edu.