STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Winter quarter 2005


LOGICAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES WORKSHOP

Jan 7 Rens Bod (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Exemplar-Based Explanation in the Natural and Human Sciences
(3:15 PM - 5:15 PM, 60-61A)

Jan 14 Angela Potochnik and Audrey Yap (Stanford University)
Revisiting Galison’s “Aufbau/Bauhaus” in Light of Neurath’s Philosophical Projects
(3:15 PM - 5:15 PM, 60-61A)

Feb 15 Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University)
Hilbert's "Foundations of Physics" 1915-1917: Axiomatic Method and a Revision of Kantian Epistemology
(4 PM - 6 PM, 380-380X)

Mar 8 Michael Friedman (Stanford University)
Physics, Philosophy, and the Foundations of Geometry: Einstein and the Logical Empiricists
(4 PM - 6 PM, 380-380X)

Mar 15 Jean-Pierre Marquis (Université de Montréal, Visiting Fellow, Mathematics Research Center, Stanford)
Stairway to Heaven: abstraction and generalization in mathematics (and beyond)
(4 PM - 6 PM, 380-380X)

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