6/2: Peter Klecha
May 31st, 2009“Modality and Context-Dependence in Futures”
4:30-6:30 pm, Cobb 102 (campus map)
5/26: Mike O’Donnell
May 20th, 2009Due to an unexpected emergency, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Hopefully, Mike O’Donnell will be able to join us at a later date to give his talk.
“The Sources of Certainty in Computation and Formal Systems”
4:30-6:30 pm, Cobb 102 (campus map)
A copy of the paper may be downloaded here.
A copy of the PowerPoint slides may be downloaded here.
The following is optional background reading:
Computation, Information, and Description, Michael J. O’Donnell
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles, Lewis Carroll
On the Computable Numbers, Alan Turing
On The Infinite, David Hilbert
The Foundations of Mathematics, David Hilbert
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, Richard W. Hamming
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of
Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Eugene Wigner
5/19: Brandon Fogel
May 14th, 2009“The Geometry of Bell’s Theorem”
4:30-6:30 pm, Cobb 102 (campus map)
The following is optional background reading:
Bell’s Theorem, Abner Shimony
5/12: Aidan Gray
May 9th, 2009“What do Alfreds Have in Common?”
4:30-6:30 pm, Cobb 104 (campus map)
The paper may be downloaded here.
5/5: Sean Ebels-Duggan
April 27th, 2009“Why is Arithmetic Incomplete?”
4:30-6:30 pm, Cobb 102 (campus map)
The following is optional background reading:
On the Incompleteness Theorems, Henryk Kotlarski
4/20: Martin Gustafsson
April 15th, 2009“Wittgenstein and ‘Tonk’”
4:30-6:30 pm, Wieboldt 111 (campus map)
A copy of Martin Gustafsson’s paper may be downloaded here.
The following are recommended background readings:
A Runabout Inference Ticket, Arthur Prior
Tonk, Plonk, and Plink, Nuel Belnap
Roundabout the Runabout Inference Ticket, J. T. Stevenson
3/10: Nat Hansen
March 2nd, 2009“Color Adjectives and Radical Contextualism”
4:30-6:30 pm, Cobb 101 (campus map)
2/27: Antonio Montalbán
February 16th, 2009“Reverse Mathematics”
4:30-6:30 pm, Cobb 101 (campus map)
2/10: Katherine Brading
January 30th, 2009“The ‘Newman problem’ in the context of structural realism”
4:30-6:30 pm, Cobb 101 (campus map)
The following are optional background readings:
Structural Realism, James Ladyman
Ramseyfication and Theoretical Content, Joseph Melia and Juha Saatsi
1/27: William Wimsatt
January 22nd, 2009“False Models as Means to Truer Theories”
6-8 pm, Cobb 101 (campus map)
The following are recommended background readings:
Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Chapter Six
18 Functions for False Models
Golden Generalities and Co-Opted Anomalies – Part 1
Golden Generalities and Co-Opted Anomalies – Part 2