June 1989

The Archive holds the following Recordings for June 1989

1st June 1989 : Cambridge :  Seminar Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science  4:30 pm : Departmental Seminar

Dr Donald MacKENZIE (Edinburgh) : A Sociologist amongst the Missiles : Historical and Sociological perspectives on the evolution of Weapons Technology in the Cold War and the work of Mathew Evangelista

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Thursday 1st June 1989 : Oxford Mathematical Institute : 4:15 pm :

Professor E.C. ZEEMAN : On the Stability and Classification of Dynamical Systems.

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5th June 1989 : Oxford Mathematical Institute : Higman Room 5:00 pm : Topology Seminar :

S. HALPERIN (Toronto) : Loop Space Homology of finite complexes

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7th June 1989  : Department of History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Kings College London : Room 1 B 06 KCL 2:15 pm

Dr Laurence PEARL (Birkbeck College) Rational Design of Anti-AIDS Drugs : Models and Analaogies

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7th June 1989 : 4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :

Michael FINCH : Fluid Spheres and Lie Symmetries

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8th June 1989 :  Cambridge :  Seminar Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science  4:30 pm : Departmental Seminar

Richard SORRENSEN (Princeton) : Accounting for every second : George Graham and early 18th Century Science in England

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Tuesday 13th June 1989 : Cambridge :  Seminar Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science  4:30 pm  SIGMA Club Seminar Meeting

Professor David BOHM (Birkbeck College)

An Ontological Approach to the Interpretation of Quantum Theory

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14th June 1989 : Department of History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Kings College London : Room 1 B 06 KCL 2:15 pm

Professor Jaap HOEPELMAN (Stuttgart) : Two-Role Semantics : Knowledge Representation, Conditionals and Non-Monotonicity

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14th June 1989 : 4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :

Alberto CHAMORRO (Bilbao) : Embeddings of Solutions of Einstein’s Field equations in Cosmological backgrounds

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15th June 1989 : Cambridge :  Seminar Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science  4:30 pm : Departmental Seminar

Prof. Heinz O. SIBUM (Oldenburg) : Charge Conservation and Charge : A historical perpective on the origin the Concepts

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19th – 26th JUNE 1989

CAMBRIDGE UK : INVITED LETURES AND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CATEGORIES IN THE FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS AND IN THEORIES OF COGNITION AND LANGUAGE

Sponsored by the Archive for Mathematical Sciences and Philosophy and hosted by the Sigma Club and The Faculty for the History and Philosophy of Science Cambridge

PART 1 : 19th and 20th JUNE 1989 : 3 Invited Lectures by Professor F. William LAWVERE  (S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo)

LECTURE 1 : 

Monday 19th JUNE 1989  4:30 PM The Maxwell Lecture Theatre, The Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Foundations as a Branch of Mathematics :  The Topos of Cantorian Kardinale as a Basis for Pedagogy and the Topos of Cohesive (Differentiable) Mengen as a Basis for Geometry

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LECTURE 2 :

Tuesday 20th June 1989 : 2:00 pm  :  The Maxwell Lecture Theatre, The Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Mathematics as the Study of the Quantitative Motion of Bodies in Space : Grassmann and Dialectics and the Need for Objective Logic as well as Subjective

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LECTURE 3 : 

Tuesday 20th June 1989 : 4:30 pm  :  The Maxwell Lecture Theatre, The Old Cavendish Laboratory

Extensive and Intensive Quantities in Logic and Geometry – Constructed in the Galileo-Cantor-Burnside-Grothendieck Spirit.

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PART II  :  21st – 24th JUNE 1989

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CATEGORIES IN THE FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS AND IN THEORIES OF COGNITION AND LANGUAGE

The Morning and Afternoon Talks took place in Seminar Room 2 of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science Cambridge

The Evening Talks took place in the Seminar Room of Wolfson College

Wednesday 21st June 1989

10:00 am :  Colin McLARTY (CWRU) : Conceptual Changes in Mathematiucs -or – Category Theory in Real Time

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2:00 pm :  David HOLDSWORTH (York University, Canada) : Concrete Universals in the Context of Quantum Mechanics : A Category Theoretic perspective

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8.00 pm :  John MAYBERRY (Bristol) :  What Is required of A Foundation for Mathematics ?

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Thursday 22nd JUNE 1989

10:00 am : Peter CLARK (St Andrews) : Antirealism and the Continuum

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2:00 pm : Donald GILLIES (Kings College London) : Are there Revolutions in Mathematics ?

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8:00 pm : Michael RESNIK (Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) : Proof as a Source of Truth

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Friday 23d June 1989

10:00 am : David ELLERMAN (Tufts University) : Category theory as the Setting for A Theory of Concrete Universals

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2:00 pm : David PAPINEAU (Cambridge) : Mathematical Fictionalism

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8:00 pm : Jon DORLING (Amsterdam) : Platonism Inverted?  Three issues in the relationship of Mathematical Concepts to Physical Structure

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Saturday 24th June 1989

10:00 am Gonzalo REYES (Montreal) : The Logic of Kinds

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2:00 pm : Anders KOCK (Aarhus) : When Did Nature Become Fractal ? Some questions about the role of the Axioms of Peano Arithmetic in framing models of the Continuum

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PM 24th June 1989 : Round Table Discussion

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End of Section of Recordings of Cambridge FOM Workshop and F.W. Lawvere’s Invited Lectures

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21st June 1989 : Department of History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Kings College London : Room 1 B 06 KCL 2:15 pm

Vitek TRACZ : How can we cope with the Information Explosion in Science ? : An experimental Publishing Model.

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21st June 1989 :   4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :

Julian BARBOUR :  Mach and Inertia : The Real Problem and Why Einstein did not solve it

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22nd June 1989 : Cambridge :  Seminar Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science  4:30 pm : Departmental Seminar

Dr Galen STRAWSON (Oxford) :  Reality, Intelligibilty and Truth

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27th June 1989 :  London School of Economics Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method : Departmental Seminar

Dr Marcus GIAQUINTO (UCL) : On Mathematicsal Intuition : Discerning Structure and the “Eureka!” Phenomenon

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28th June 1989 : Department of History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Kings College London : Room 1 B 06 KCL 2:15 pm

Professor Alan FRANKLIN (Colorado) : the Many Roles and faces of Experiment.

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28th June 1989 : 4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :

Vladimir MANKO  (Moscow) : Electrovacuum Generalizations of the Schwarzchild Solution

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Many further recordings for June 1989 to be added