Logic and Philosophy Talks at CMU

Past talks in this series
The colloquium is held in Baker Hall A53 (downstairs in the "New Wing")
All talks start at 4:30 pm, with refreshments at 4


 
Philosophy Colloquium
Thursday
22 January 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall A53
Refreshments at 4

"The Emergence of Quantification Theory, 1879-1940"

William Ewald
Professor of Law and Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract

Philosophy Colloquium
Thursday
19 February 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall A53
Refreshments at 4

"Altering the Remote Past"

Alexander Afriat
Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
and University of Urbino, Italy
Abstract

Philosophy Colloquium
* Please note special day and place *
Wednesday
3 March 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall 150

"Steps Towards a Computational Metaphysics"

Edward Zalta
Stanford University
Abstract

Pure and Applied Logic Colloquium
Thursday
4 March 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall A53
Refreshments at 4

"Choice Principles in Intuitionistic Set Theory"

John L. Bell
University of Western Ontario
Abstract

Philosophy Colloquium
Thursday
18March 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall A53
Refreshments at 4


"Who Speaks for the People? -- Deliberative Democracy and Competing Conceptions of Public Opinion"

James S. Fishkin
Departments of Communication and Political Science and
Director, Center for Deliberative Democracy
Stanford University
Abstract

Pure and Applied Logic Colloquium
Thursday
25 March 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall A53
Refreshments at 4

"Bounded Functional Interpretation"

Fernando Ferreira
University of Lisbon
Abstract

Pure and Applied Logic Colloquium
Thursday
1 April 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall A53
Refreshments at 4

"Is Mathematics Stratified?"

Thomas Forster
Cambridge University
Abstract

Philosophy Colloquium
Friday
2 April 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall 235B
Please note special day and room

"Dedekind, Hilbert, and Logicism"

Jose Ferreiros
University of Sevilla
Abstract

Pure and Applied Logic Colloquium
Thursday
15 April 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall A53
Refreshments at 4

"The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra from a Constructive Point of View"

Harold Edwards
Courant Institute of Mathematics
New York University
Abstract

PAL/POP/Theory
Special Lectures
Tuesday 20 April 2004
Thursday 22 April 2004

10-11:20 am, PPB 300

4/20: "Self-interperters in the lambda calculus"
4/22: "Intersection types"

Henk Barendregt
University of Nijmegen
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract

Joint CMU-Pitt
Philosophy Colloquium
Thursday
22 April 2004

4:30 pm, Baker Hall A53
Refreshments at 4

"On Sententialism: The Thesis that Complement Clauses refer to Themselves"

James Higginbotham
University of Southern California
Abstract



The Pure and Applied Logic (PAL) Colloquium is sponsered jointly
by the departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy,
Carnegie Mellon University.

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