Past Colloquia

2001-2002

September 28, 2001	"Illegal Explanation: The Mechanist Alternative"	William Bechtel Department of Philosophy Washington University, St. Louis
October 5	"The Limits of Ecology and the Re/Construction of Unruly Complexity"	Peter Taylor Critical and Creative Thinking Program University of Massachusetts, Boston
October 12	"What is the Value of Research? Protecting Human Subjects at the Frontiers of Biomedical Science"	David Magnus Center for Bioethics University of Pennsylvania
November 9	"Space and Geometry in Eighteenth Century Scotland: Reid's "Geometry of Visibles", Conventionalism, and a bit of Hume"	Edward Slowik Department of Philosophy Winona State University
February 8, 2002	"2-D Modal Logic and the History of Science"	Paul Griffith  Department of History and Philosophy of Science
February 22	"Racial Politics in Residential Segregation Studies"	Ronald Sundstrom Department of Philosophy University of Memphis
March 1	"Leibniz's Concept of Organic Body"	Francois Duchesneau  University of Montreal
April 5	"Biology and Mathematics: A Clash of Cultures?"	Evelyn Fox Keller  Program in Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology &  Winton Chair in Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
May 3	"Causation. One Word, Many Things"	Nancy Cartwright  Center for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics &  Department of Philosophy University of California-San Diego