This talk follows the read-ahead model; the format consists of a brief 20 minute lecture followed by a 60 minute Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry. Registered attendees will receive a copy of Prof. Wills’ paper via email several days prior to the event.
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This lecture will follow a read-ahead format. It is expected that participants come having read the paper in advance. Prof. Paul will provide a short summary of the paper, and then we will launch directly into the Q&A period.
Abstract:
A commitment to truth requires that you are open to receiving new evidence even if that evidence...
10:00 – 11:30: Ruth Hagengruber (author) and Katherine Brading (commentator)
11:45 – 12:15: Clara Carus (author) and Andrew Janiak (commentator)
12:15 – 1:15: Catered lunch in the Philosopher’s Lounge*
1:30 – 3:00: Marius Stan (author) and Alison Peterman (commentator)
3:15-4:45: Anne-Lise Rey (author) and Colin Chamberlain (commentator)
* Third Floor Emerson Hall. All are welcome to attend the catered lunch, but please let us know if you are coming by February 7 so that we can order enough...
Originally from France, a night of philosophy and ideas is a marathon of philosophical debate, performances, readings, and music happening overnight.
Boston’s first Night of Philosophy & Ideas at Harvard University will bring together academics from various disciplines, as well as artists, activists, and public intellectuals to address a variety of timely questions around this year’s...
Harvard Logic Colloquium: George E. Smith (Tufts U.), Theory-Mediated Measurement of Interlinked Constants Evidence of a Different Kind?
In his landmark paper of 1900 in which he derived his law of blackbody radiation from Boltzmann’s theory of entropy, Planck invoked as evidence inferred values for a series of theoretically interlinked microphysical constants none of which had been measured with precision before. In doing so he initiated a kind of evidence that had never been successfully deployed before, yet quickly came to be central to modern microphysics. The...