The Archive holds the following Recordings for January 1989

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9th January 1989 : British Society for the Philosophy of Science Meeting : 14 Gordon Square London WC 1 : 5:15 pm

George ROSS : The Blue Guitar : Inverse Optics in A New Light

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Monday 16th January 1989 : Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy : Lecture Room, 10, Merton Street 2:00 pm

Week 1 of Graduate Class by Dr Timothy WILLIAMSON : Existence, Identity and Logic

Synopsis of Course :

In spite of the Title, the Class will primarily be concerned with issues about identity. A case study will be made of the identity of the subjective character of experience and problems with the non-transitivity of indiscriminability, with some reference to observationality, sorites argumenst and “vague objects”.  Techniques developed with respect to these cases will be applied to the identity of persons and species, and then to sorites arguments about identity across times and possible worlds.  The nature of criteria of identity will be discused. If time permits, a comparison will be developed between first-level concepts of existence and identity, with discussion of the analogues for the former of Leibniz’s Law and the necesity of identity, and of the relation between spatio-temporal location and possession of properties as accounts of existence

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16th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford  : Higman Room : 5:00 pm : Topology Seminar

Ioan JAMES (Oxford) : Continuous functions of several variables

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17th January 1989 :  The London School of Economics : The Vera Anstey Room  2:00 pm : Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method : Departmental Seminar :

Professor John WATKINS :  Kant’s Late Recantation

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17th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford  : Seminar in Combinatorial Theory

Dr S. PINCH (Cambridge) : Dichromatic Polynomials

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17th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Algebra Seminar : 5:00 pm

Professor J.D. DIXON (Carlton) : Constructing algebraic number fields using groups and p-adic extensions

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18th January 1989 : Kings College London (KCL) Department of History and Philosophy of Science : 2:15 pm : Departmental Seminar : Room 1 B 06

Professor Clive KILMISTER : Can One Do Discrete Physics ?

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Wednesday 18th January 1989 :  Queen Mary College, University of London : 4:30 pm Seminar Room (Room 103) Mathematics Building, Mile End Road :  The London Relativity Seminar :

Prof. J. CHARAP (QMC) :  Constraints in tetrad Gravity

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Thursday 19th January 1989 10.00 am  : Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy 10 Merton Street : Course in Philosophy of Mathematics :  The Conceptual Foundations of Mathematics : by J.R. LUCAS

Lecture 1

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Thursday 19th January 1989  : Cambridge University Department of History and Philosophy of Science Departmental Seminar : 4:30 pm Seminar Room 2, Free School Lane

Dr Richard JENNINGS (Cambridge) : Naturalized Semantics

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Friday 20th January 1989 : 10.00 am  : Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy 10 Merton Street : Course in Philosophy of Mathematics :  The Conceptual Foundations of Mathematics :  by J.R. LUCAS

Lecture 2

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Friday 20th January 1989 :  2:00 pm :  Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy 10 Merton Street Lecture Room :

Christopher PEACOCKE : Class on Concepts

Week 1

Synopsis of Course :  The Class aims to address the following questions : What are concepts ? Whatis the relation between the identity of a concept and a correct account of possession of that concept ? I will be proposing a general form which should be taken by accounts of concept possession and applying this form to    i)  issues in the theory of reference.  ii)  to recent disputres in the philosophical literature about the nature of concept possession and  iii) to the theory of thought and radical interpretation.  I will alsobe considering the normative dimension of concepts, and with it the question of whether the use of concepts in the description of mental phenomena is consistent with a naturalistic world-view.  If there is time, I may also be considering the nature of the ontology of concepts, and of the individuation of conceptual content by reference to nonconceptual representational content.  Suitable reading will be suggested as we proceed.

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20th January 1989 :  8:15 pm Birkbeck College University of London : Philosophy Society Meeting :

Professor J.J. KATZ (C.U.N.Y.) : Has the Description Theory of Names been Refuted ?

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Monday 23rd January 1989 :  Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : 11:00 am 

Course on Topology of Braid Groups by R.L. COHEN

Lecture 1 : Calculation of the homology of braid groups.

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Monday 23rd January 1989 :  Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy : Lecture Room, 10, Merton Street 2:00 pm

Week 2 of Graduate Class by Dr Timothy WILLIAMSON : Existence, Identity and Logic

See 16th January 1989 for Synopsis of Course.

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23rd January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Geometry and Analysis Seminar : 3:00 pm

Professor S.K. DONALDSON : Bundles over elliptic surfaces

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23rd January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Room L 3 : 4:00 pm : Seminar in Analytic Topology :

M. BROD (Oxford) : On spaces with no uncountable metrisable subset

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23rd January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Room L 2 : 5:00 pm : Seminar in Theoretical Mechanics

Professor T.J. BRIDGES :  Symmetry and Waves

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23rd January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford  : Higman Room : 5:00 pm : Topology Seminar

Ioan JAMES (Oxford) : The Early Work of Frank Adams

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Monday 23rd January 1989 : 8:00 pm :  Oxford : Ockham Society

Speaker :  J.E.J. ALTHAM :  Arguments from Moral Phenomenology

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24th January 1989 :  The London School of Economics : The Vera Anstey Room  2:00 pm : Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method : Departmental Seminar :

Dr Christopher HUGHES (KCL) : Omniscience and the Open Future in Aquinas

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Tuesday 24th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : 11:00 am 

Course on Topology of Braid Groups by R.L. COHEN

Lecture 2 : Applications to the Steenroad Algebra and relations amongst characteristic classes of manifolds.

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24th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Seminar in Combinatorial Theory

Dr M. DYER (Leeds) : Random Algorithms for convex bodies

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24th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Algebra Seminar : 5:00 pm

Dr M.R. VAUGHAN-LEE (Christ Church) : The Burnside Problem

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25th January 1989 : Kings College London (KCL) Department of History and Philosophy of Science : 2:15 pm : Departmental Seminar : Room 1 B 06

Dr Jonathan HODGE (Leeds) : Biology and Philosophy : The cases of R.A. Fisher and Sewall Wright

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Wednesday 25th January 1989 :  Queen Mary College, University of London : 4:30 pm Seminar Room (Room 103) Mathematics Building, Mile End Road :  The London Relativity Seminar :

Gary GIBBONS (DAMTP Cambridge) : Vortex Motion in the Neighbourhood of a Cosmic String

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26th January 1989 :  10.00 am  : Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy 10 Merton Street : Course in Philosophy of Mathematics :  The Conceptual Foundations of Mathematics : by J.R. LUCAS

Lecture 3

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26th January 1989 : Cambridge University Department of History and Philosophy of Science Departmental Seminar : 4:30 pm Seminar Room 2, Free School Lane

Dr Christine MacLEOD (Cambridge) : Strategies for Innovation : The Diffusion of Technological Change in 19th Century British industry

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27th January 1989 :

Thursday 19th January 1989 10.00 am  : Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy 10 Merton Street : Course in Philosophy of Mathematics :  The Conceptual Foundations of Mathematics ; by J.R. LUCAS

Lecture 4

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Friday 27th January 1989 :  2:00 pm :  Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy 10 Merton Street Lecture Room :

Christopher PEACOCKE : Class on Concepts

Week 2                 

See 20th January 1989 for Synopsis of Course.

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27th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Logic Seminar : 4:30 PM

Dr W. DZIK (Katowice) :
Lattices Characteristic for Intuitionistic Logic

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Monday 30th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : 11:00 am 

Course on Topology of Braid Groups by R.L. COHEN

Lecture 3 : Applications to cobordisms and immersions of manifolds.

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Monday 30th January 1989 :  Oxford SubFaculty of Philosophy : Lecture Room, 10, Merton Street 2:00 pm

Week 3 of Graduate Class by Dr Timothy WILLIAMSON : Existence, Identity and Logic

See 16th January 1989 for Synopsis of Course.

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30th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Geometry and Analysis Seminar : 3:00 pm

Professor W.M. GOLDMAN (Maryland) : Life in the Heisenberg Group

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30th January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : Algebra Seminar : 5:00 pm

Dr D. SEGAL : Decidable properties of polycyclic groups

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31st January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford  : Higman Room : 5:00 pm : Topology Seminar

John RUTTER (Liverpool) : A Survey of  (epsilon) (x)

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31st January 1989 :  The London School of Economics : The Vera Anstey Room  2:00 pm : Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method : Departmental Seminar :

Dr Peter MILNE (Birmingham) : More Things in Heaven and Earth

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31st January 1989 : Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford : 11:00 am 

Course on Topology of Braid Groups by R.L. COHEN

Lecture 4 : Applications to the mapping class group of surfaces.

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31st January 1989 : Cambridge : Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Seminar Room,  2, Free School Lane : The SIGMA Club Seminar

Dr Harvey BROWN (Oxford) : Contextualism and Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics

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Many More recordings to be added.