February 1999
February 3rd 1999 :
5.00 PM Oxford ASC Hovenden Room : Alexander Koyre Seminar
Nicholas JARDINE (Cambridge HPS) On KEPLER (mf 0299)
6.00 – 8.00 pm : CPNSS Room T 206 Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar:
Foundations of Complex Systems Theory : Discussion of Emergent properties
8.15 pm Oxford Zoology Department
Lecture Series : Darwin’s Legacy
John Maynard Smith on Evolution and Development
8th February 1999 : Oxford 10 Merton street Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
David BOSTOCK : Is there an Intuitionistic Understanding of the Semantics for the Logical Constants based on the Notion of Proof ?
10th February 1999 :
5.00 PM Oxford ASC Hovenden Room : Alexander Koyre Seminar
Jonathan BENNETT on The Mathematics of the 17th Century Cambridge Platonists
Thursday 11th FEBRUARY 1999
SIGMA CLUB Meeting CPNSS T 206 5.15 pm
Jeremy BUTTERFIELD :
A Topos-theoretic perspective on the Kochen-Specker Theorem
12th February 1999
2.30 pm Oxford Mathematical Institute :
Richard JOSZA (Bristol) : On Quantum Information and Von Neumann Entropy
4.15 pm : Oxford 10 Merton Street Philosophy Centre : Philosophy of Physics Seminar :
Adrian KENT
Unifying Consistent Histories and Collapse Models
Monday 15th February 1999 : Oxford 10 Merton Street Philosophy Centre
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
Gianluigi OLIVERI : Patterns and Infinity
Wednesday 17th February 1999 :
2.00 PM Oxford : Holywell Manor : Oxford Philosophy of Physics Discussion Group : Theme of the Seminar for Lent Term 1999 : The Role of Mathematics in Physics
Talk and Discussion on Newton’s Alchemical Aether Explanation for the Frame of the World
5.00 PM Oxford ASC Hovenden Room : Alexander Koyre Seminar
Steve GAUKROGER on DESCARTES
8.15 PM : Oxford Zoology Department : Lecture Series : Darwin’s Legacy :
Daniel DENNETT on The Evolution of Culture
21st February 1999 Oxford Philosophy of Physics Advanced Class 10 Merton Street Simon Saunders and Harvey Brown.
Part A : Thermodynamics in The Kac Ring Formulation
Part B : Geometry and the Nature and Status of Gauge Principles in Physics, with particular reference to the Bohm-Aharanov Effect
Continued in weeks 5-8 of Lent Term
22nd February 1999 : Notes of Discussion on FW Lawvere’s Article on Volterra on Functionals
(Date of Discussion unrecorded but notes made shortly afterwards)
Wednesday 24th February 1999 : Kings College London Centre for Philosophical Studies Room 35B Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
Robert BROWN (Manitoba : Editor Philosophia Mathematica)
Why Ontology really should not matter to the Mathematician
8.15 pm Oxford University Zoology Departmetn : In Lecture Series : Darwin’s Legacy
David Deutsch : The Evolution of Intelligence
Thursday 25th february 1999 : 4.30 pm CPNSS T206 Tynes Court
Sigma Club Meeting : Johannes HUNGER (Heidelberg) on
Explanation in Chemistry
26th February 1999 : Cambridge HPS : Philosophy of Physics Reading Group :
Reading “Time’s Arrow and Quantum Measurement” (Ed. LS Schulman CUP 1997)
Wednesdays February /March 1999 Oxford 10 Merton Street : On Plato’s View of the Foundations of Geometry
Dr G. Rigamonti (University of Palermo)