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Department of HISTORY
AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Eötvös University, Budapest
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Pázmány P. sétány
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Budapest, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924
Location?
The web site of the seminar:
http://hps.elte.hu/seminar |
Philosophy of Science
Seminar
Room 6.54 (6th floor)
Monday 4:00 PM
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| It seems, many of the usual participants of the
seminar will be abroad in the first week of June (Bled, Ringberg, etc.).
So, there is no lecture scheduled for this Monday! |
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11
June
4:00 PM
6th floor 6.54 |
| Don
Ihde |
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Department of Philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook
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Epistemology Engines
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The history of science is filled with important theories
and discoveries based upon observations of technologies, for example, thermodynamics
comes from the steam engine as historians claim. I shall examine
several cases of lifeworld practices which relate to scientific developments,
including cannon warfare and ballistics, railway schedules and clocks for
special relativity, etc. But the focus will be upon technologies
which become
explicit models for knowledge production. In the first case,
I shall examine the role of the camera obscura for early modern epistemology
and then the 'return of the book of life' for contemporary epistemology. |
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June
4:00 PM
6th floor 6.54 |
| Barry
Loewer |
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Philosophy, Rutgers University, New York
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David Lewis' Humean Account
of Chance
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David Lewis formulated a principle (he calls it "the Principal
Principle") that he claims tells how chances (and beliefs concerning chances)
should guide belief. The principle is that if the chance at t of A's occurring
is x then your credence at that A will occur should be x as long as you
don't possess any inadmissible information. The principle is intuitive
and explains a lot of statistical practice. However Lewis thinks it is
incompatible with his favorite theory of the nature of chance and more
generally with a metaphysical doctrine called "Humean Supervenience." I
argue that Lewis is mistaken about this. Further more I show that while
there can be no "justification" of the principle that shows that following
it will lead to successful results one can provide a kind of "rationale"
for the principle based on Lewis' account of the nature of chance. |
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I would like to thank you all, the lecturers
and the audience,
your participation and the stimulating atmosphere
of the seminars!
See you in September!
L. E. Sz.
The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then
we hold a 30-60-minute discussion. The language of the presentation is indicated
in the following way:
English
English, except if all participants speak Hungarian
Hungarian
The participants
may comment on the talks and are encouraged to initiate discussion through the
Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation.
The organizer of the seminar: László
E. Szabó (email: leszabo@hps.elte.hu) |
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