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Spring, 2006

01/06/2006-05/09/2006




Hacking the terminal's computer in Milan..



We needed to leave on the emergency exit of our Alitalia flight.











Staying with Peter and Vera in Philadelphia.



Smiling as if were given an apple.




LTT: Nicholas Rescher: "Limits and Limitations".



Apple comes out with the new IMachines.. with one mouse button, again.




LTT: Craig Delancey: "Emotion, Action, and Reason".



Peter "HPS is the shit" Machamer poses for an image.



Greg Frost prepares for his job talk. Carnap, Quine, analiticity..



CT: Bernard R. Goldstein: "The Philosophy of Ptolemaic Astronomy".



I should really compile a page with grad students sleeping all around.




LTT: Athanassios Raftopoulos: "Defending Realism on the Proper Ground".



Our reading group on Quantum Gravity with Hilary Greaves, Nicholas Joshua Teh and Arthur Cunningham.





Free iceskating for Pitt students! It was great, although my back still hurts.



Keith has no better thing to do on Sundays than to hang around in the Cathedral of Learning.



LTT: Malcolm Forster: "Unification and Evidence".



Another sleeping fellow to my collection..



Ok, ok, but Master of What?



"Go Steelers" Center lunch.



We are all Danes now.



LTT: Carla Fehr: "Integration or Isolation? Explanation, Pluralism and Sex".


Balazs Kovacs' visit in Pittsburgh
Some of the pics will be uploaded later..


Hanging out with Balazs and Alyosha.

Chinese New Year party.

Exploring the Nationality Rooms in the Cathedral of Learning.







Phipps Conservatory.




Carnegie Museum, with Luke Swanks photographies.






Superbowl party - the Pittsburgh Steelers won the game, there was a decent rage in the streets. Riot police pushed us off from Forbes Ave.





Some of the pics taken by Balazs Kovacs.



Ken Manders: "Ways of giving a (mathematical) thing".



Abel's job talk: Descartes' theory of passions. It was rather a whole semester than a job talk.




Grad students meet with the faculty to discuss financial issues.



LTT: Lilia Gurova: "What Models Do That Theories Can’t".



LTT: Robert Pennock: "Models, Simulations, Instantiations and Evidence: The Case of Digital Evolution".



LTT: John Norton: "Atoms Entropy Quanta: Einstein's Statistical Physics of 1905".



LTT: Marianne Sommer: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Neanderthal as Image and “Distortion” in Early 20th-Century French Science and Press".



Scary cut-off hands of a pink ape.




Skiing in Seventh Springs Mountain Resort with Ludovica, John and Chris.



Thomas put up this picture above Keith's desk, right before Keith's wife arrived to take a look on the office.. Nice job, Thomas!





Mediocre photos about a party at Claudio's place with Andreas and Ludovica. Claudio is an excellent cook, I need to say.



CT: Thomas Hales: "Computers and the Future of Mathematical Proofs".



Doreen is the proud inheritor of the laptop of Noe.



This time we took a prospective student to the Sharp Edge.



I've tried to repair the laptop of Abel, with minor success.





LTT: Peter Machamer and Jim Bogen: "Explanation and Information".



There is a pair of this picture somewhere.






Another Mediterranean night with Andreas, Claudio, Ludovica and "The Chemist".










Happy birthday, Feisal!



We bumped into each other with Tibor Szolcsanyi in the Kiva Han.


Niagara Falls

















Mézga család, megvan?




The real reason of building the look-out tower on the US side.






Visiting the Niagara Falls with Andreas, Ingo, Ludovica and Tibor. Just the US side, for my part.



Dominika, my first "first cousine once removed".



Welcome in the neighborhood - I might have underestimated the size of the local Hungarian community.



Jan Wolenski: "The Undefinability of Truth in Frege, Moore, Gödel and Tarski".



LTT: Cian Dorr: "Finding Ordinary Objects in the World of Quantum Mechanics".



Jim Lennox lost his keys to a file cabinet which contained important documents.. Finally I could make a useful contribution to something.



Daniel Warren: "The Notion of Force in Kant's 'Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science'".



Feisal's WIP talk about shamrocks or about mirror neurons.



The (mainly) European visitors play soccer every Saturday.



Nowadays that I work more frequently in the Kiva Han I can't avoid bumping into Ingo.




My philosophy of modal logic seminar in CMU with Stewe Awodey and Horacio Arlo-Costa.



LTT: Stephan Hartmann: "Modeling in Philosophy of Science".



CT: Nancy Cartwright: "Hunting Causes and Using Them".






Replacements for the dinosaurs. Again, no comment.




Another long night with Abel, Andreas, Claudio, and Ludovica.



Hilary, my next victim.



LTT: Chris Timpson: "Gauging Deutsch-Hayden: A new theory meets a familiar argument".



Claudio Calosi in front of the Hillman Library. It takes a few tricks to take a picture of him.



I think that Jonathan has nothing but office hours this semester.








The most amazing rainbow I've ever seen. Unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to take the pics, but they are still OK.

































"No fools party" (?), celebrating that 10 out of 10 finishing PhD students got jobs.



Hilary's lecture on the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics class.



LTT: Boris Hennig: "Final Causes".



Do you see the difference?




Club activity after my presentation.



Oh, these Rutgers students.. ;)





HPS T-shirt ads.



Surprise birthday party - thanks for all! Especially to Jackie, who also took some pictures. (Photo by John Norton.)




Paul Horwich: "The Epistemology of A Priori Knowledge".



"Camp Out!"



Last Kiva Han coffee with Ingo before he leaves us.



Spring arrived, at last.




George Kampis and Katalin Mund came to visit Pittsburgh. Talk: "Mechanisms as Totally Constrained Systems".



LTT: Philip Ehrlich: "The Absolute Arithmetic Continuum and the Unification of all Numbers Great and Small".



Gone.



LTT: Nikolay Milkov: "The Joint Philosophical Program of Russell and Wittgenstein: March–November 1912".




















The Eight Annual CMU/Pitt Graduate Student Philosophy Conference.



Funny sign near the apartment of Andreas.



Spending the Easter with the Anders and Sytsmas. Huge ham, good times.



What does "absolutely" add?



Francesca's defense.



LTT: Robert Olby: "Francis Crick as Neuroscientist".



The contract reads: "I sell my internal and/or eternal soul (but not my funk) to Gy.B. for 1 USD - Justin Sytsma"
















Unplanned visit in Johnstown.



Spring cleaning up in downtown.



As usual, I'm spending my time with the most urgent tasks. What could be more important than a ROM update?



CT: Paolo Mancosu: "Unification and Explanation: A Case Study from Real Algebraic Geometry".




How to get a job in philosophy? Our leaving grads share their experiences.













The Robert and Sarah Boote Conference in Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism in Physics






"Authentic" Chinese restaurant outside of Pittsburgh.



Black and white.


Visiting Balazs Kovacs and Kristof Madarasz in San Francisco























San Francisco.
















Stanford.


Ivo, Albert, Balazs, Tomas, and Ivo's french girlfriend.






Berkeley.






















































Hiking in Yosemite Park with Balazs Kovacs and Tomas Sadzik.



Washington, Dulles. 


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