In May 2012 The Archive Trust plans to record or seeks to share recordings to be made by others of the following events :

 

Monday 30th APRIL – 2nd MAY 2012

OXFORD : St Annes College Woodstock Road Oxford UK

Mornings 9:30 – 13:00 hrs

The Arrow of Time  : A Program of Talks and Discussions in the Oxford Philosophy of Cosmology Miniseries Program

Speakers :

John BARROW

Jeremy BUTTERFIELD

Roger PENROSE

Joe SILK

David WALLACE

Topics of Discussion :

Is the initial state of the Universe “special”?

What is the relationship between entropy and the arrow of time ?

Is Inflationary cosmology compatible with the 2nd law of thermodynamics ?

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This miniseries is the first of several on the philosophy of cosmology which will take place in Oxford and Cambridge over the next 2 years.  For more on the philosophy of cosmology intiative see

http://philcosmo.physics.ox.ac.uk/

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2nd – 3rd MAY 2012

PARIS,  University Of PARIS 1 SORBONNE (54 Rue St Jacques Room J 636)

LA LOGIQUE EN QUESTION 2012

Second in a Series of Annual International Conferences on Topics in The History and Philosophy of Logic

Program of Meeting :

Day 1 Wednesday 2nd May 2012

11:00

Welcome and Opening

11:20 – 12:00

Jean-Pierre DESCLES : Pouvoir, devoir, vouloir : A formal analysis of their multiple significations

LUNCH

14:00 – 14:40

Patrick BLACKBURN : Logic and Indexicality

14:40 – 15:20

Viviane DURAND – GUERRIER : Sur quelques rapports de la formalisations loqique pour l’analyse du                              discours dans mathematiques

15:50 – 16:30

Liesbeth DE MOL :  When the bubble of symbolic logic finally burst : Emil Post and formalism

16:30 – 17:10

Paola CANTU : The pragmatist conception of Logic

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Day 2 : Thursday 3rd MAY 2012

09:00 – 09:30

Jacques DUBUCS : Between All and Nothing : Remarks on the Notion of Semi-necessity

09:40 – 10:20

Juliette LEMAIRE : L’argument logikos  : Est-il logique ?

10:40 – 11:20

Bruno LECLERQ : Objects becoming functions : how the Meinongian conception of Logic marked an assault on the Fregean distinction between concept and object

11:20 – 12:00

Mathieu MARION and Amirouche MOKTEFI

Lewis Carroll’s paradox of inference : genesis and lessons

LUNCH

14:00 – 14:40

Jean-Yves BEZIAU : Logic and Imagination

14:40 – 15:20

Anca PASCU : La logique de la determination des objets et l;analyse formelle des concepts

15:50 – 16:30

Paul EGRE : Vagueness, Truth and permissive consequence

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3rd MAY 2012

Paris : Universite Paris 7 Diderot

10:30 – 12:30 Salle 483A Malevitch  Batiment Condorcet

Cours MaMuPhi de Mathematiques (responsable : Rene GUITART)

Talk 3 of 2012 Series :

Speaker : Arache DJANNATI-ATAI

Title : TBA

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3rd MAY 2012

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Week 2 of Summer Term 2012 Series

4:30 PM Lecture Room  10 Merton Street

Fay DOWKER (Imperial College London)

The Sum-Over-Histories Approach to Quantum Mechanics

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4th MAY 2012

14:00-17:00 hrs Salle Malevich 483A Bat. Condorcet Univ Paris 7

REHSEIS Seminar in Philosophie et Physique

(Convenors Elie DURING and Alexis se SAINT-OURS)

Speaker : Gabriel CATREN

Title : To Be Advised.

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5th MAY 2012

10:30 am : Ens Paris Pavilon Pasteur

MaMuPhi Seminar

Speaker :  Patrick SAINT-JEAN

Title :  Pre-Topology

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5th – 6th MAY 2012

University of Aberdeen

CHPSTM Workshop :

Grete HERMANN (1901 – 1984): Between Physics and Philosophy

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8th MAY 2012

Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, Lakatos Building, LSE London

A 1 day Conference on Aristotle and Structuralism

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9th MAY 2012

Paris. University of Paris 7 Diderot Batiment Condorcet Salle Mondrian 646A  10:00 – 13:00 hrs

Working Group on aspects of 19th and 20th Century Mathematics in relation to Topics in the Philosophy of Math

(organisers David RABOUIN, Emmylou HAFNER and Sylvain CABANACQ)

Speaker : Valentina SALA (Institut Mathematique de Toulouse)

Title : Quelques Notions de Base Sur La Geometrie des Schemas

A Discussion of the notion of Schema in Algebraic Geometry and the generalisation and structuralisation of the notion of points

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10th – 11th MAY 2012

Paris : College de France

An International Colloquium in Honour of Paul BENACERAFF

Program of the Coloquium

Day 1  : Thursday 10th May 2012

0900 – 0945   :      Claudine TIERCELIN and Fabrice PATAUT

Welcoming Address and Short Introduction to the Workshop

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0945 – 1115  :      Jody AZZOUNI (tufts University)

The problem with Benaceraff’s problem

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1130 – 1300  :      Brice HALIMI (Univ Paris-Ouest and SPHERE)

Benaceraff’s mathematical antinomy

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LUNCH

1415 – 1545  :      Bob HALE (Sheffield)

Properties, Skolem and the Interpretation of 2nd Order Logic

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1545 – 1700  :      Jacques DUBUCS (IHPST)

Motionless Godel’s long strides : A Note on the contemporary versions of Zeno’s arguments

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1715 – 1845  :    Claudine TIERCELIN (College de France)

Peirce on mathematical objects and mathematical objectivity

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Conclusion of Day 1 Talks

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Day 2 : Friday 11th May 2012

0900 – 1030  :      Mary LENG (York UK)

Truth, fiction and stipulation in Mathematics

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1045 – 1215  :      Sebastien GANDON (Univ Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand and Institut Universitaire de France)

Benaceraff on logicism

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LUNCH

1430 – 1600  :      Andreas SERENI (Milan)

A dilemma for Benaceraff’s dilemma

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1615 – 1745  :      Stuart SHAPIRO (Ohio State and University of St Andrews)

What does it take to be an object in mathematics ?

(presented by Skype)

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1800         :      Paul BENACERAFF (Princeton)

Concluding Remarks and Responses to the Colloquium Talks

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Conclusion of Colloquium

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14th MAY 2012

1)  ENS Paris 18:00 hrs Salle CIRPHLES Pavilon Pasteur

ENS Seminaire in Philosophie et Mathematique

Theme of 2011-2012 Session of The Seminar : Concepts Structures et Calcul

Speaker :  Guiseppe LONGO :

Title :  Turing : De La “Logic Computing Machine” (1936) a

La Genese de Structures Geometriques (1952)

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14th MAY 2012

2) MSH 190 Aveue de France 10:00 – 12:00 hrs

Seminaire Histoire de Geometries  2102 Series

Talk Number 4

Speaker : Jerome AUVINET (Centre Francois Viete  Univ de Nantes)

Title : Le calcul des equipollences ou L’Algebre des faits Geometriques de Palian selon C.A. LAISANT

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17th MAY 2012

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Week 4 of Summer Term 2012 Series  (No Seminar in Week 3)

Speaker and Topic TBA

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18th -20th MAY 2012

Paris, Maison de La Recherche University Paris 1 – SORBONNE

INDIVIDUALS ACROSS THE SCIENCES : Towards A Revisionary Metaphysics ?

Program

Day 1 Friday 18th MAY 2012

Location : Maison de la Recherche Paris-Sorbonne 28 Rue Serpente Paris

o9oo – 0915  :     Welcome and Opening Remarks by Alexandre GUAY

0915 – 1015  :     Jonathan E LOWE (university of Durham UK)

Non-Individuals

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1015 – 1045  :    Decio KRAUSE (University of Santa Caterina Brasil)

Characterising Individuals : The role of formal considerations

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1045 – 1100  :    Coffee Break

1100 – 1200  :     Steven FRENCH (Leeds, UK)

Eliminating Objects across the Sciences

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1200 – 1330  :    LUNCH

1330 – 1400  :    Matt HABER (University of Utah USA)

Re-articulating the individuality thesis

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1400 – 1430  :     Mark ERESHEFSKY and M. PEDROSO (University of Calgary, Canada)

Towards an account of biological individuality : the case of microbial consortia

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1430 – 1530  :     Alexandre GUAY (University of Burgundy) and Thomas PRADEU (Paris – Sorbonne)

The genidentity of physical and biological processes

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1530 – 1600  :      Coffee Break

1600 – 1700  :     James LADYMAN (Bristol, UK)

Are there individuals in Physics and if so, what are they ?

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1700 – 1800  :     Peter GODFREY – SMITH (CUNY, USA)

Individuality across space and time

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Conclusion of Day 1 Talks

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Day 2  Saturday 19th MAY 2012

Location : Maison de la Recherche Paris-Sorbonne 28 Rue Serpente Paris

0900 – 1000  :     Matteo MORGANTI (University of Rome 3 Italy)

The metaphysics of individuality and the sciences

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1000 – 1100  :     Simon SAUNDERS (Oxford UK)

The dynamical emergence of individuals in Physics

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1100 – 1130  :     Coffee Break

1130 – 1200  :     David GLICK (Univ of Arizona USA)

Anti-haecceitism and structuralism in GR and in Quantum Mechanics

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1200 – 1230  :     Paavo PYLKKANEN and Ilka PATTINIEMI (Univ of Helsinki, Finland)

The Bohmian approach to individuality

(joint work with BJ HILEY, Birkbeck College, London)

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1230 – 1400  :     LUNCH

1400 – 1500  :     Ellen CLARKE (Oxford, UK)

Individuals and adaptations

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1500 – 1600  :      Samir OKASHA (Bristol, UK)

Individuality, self-interest and agency in evolutionary iology

1600 – 1630  :      Coffee Break

1630 – 1800  :      ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Is there a Unified Definition of “Individual” and is One Needed ?

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Conclusion of Day 2 Talks

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Day 3  Sunday 20th MAY 2012

Location : IHPST : 13 Rue du Four

o900 – 0930  :      Henry FOLSE  (University of California at Irvine USA)

A continuum of individuality in modular organisms

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0930 – 1000  :      Ruey – Lin CHEN (National University of Taiwan)

The ontological realization of individuality in the experimental sciences

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1000 – 1030  :      Cedric PATERNOTTE (Bristol, UK)

Parallels between joint action and biological individuality

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1030 – 1100  :      David CRAWFORD (Duke University USA)

Beyond the Darwinian Individual : an evo-devo perspective on the regulation of individuality

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1100 – 1130  :      Coffee Break

1130 – 1200  :      Melinda FAGAN (Rice University, USA)

Cell and body : Individuality in stem-cell biology

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1200 – 1230  :      Christina CONROY (Morehead State USA)

“Survival” in Everettian Quantum Mechanics

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1230 – 1300  :      Rafael VENTURA (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Bacteria as social individuals

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Conclusion of Day 3 Talks

Closure of Meeting

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21st MAY 2012

Seminar Room 1,  Ground Floor  MSH  190 Avenue de France (Metro Quai de La Gare)

Seminaire Histoire de Geometries

Speaker : Francois PINEAU (Centre F Vieta Univ Nanes)

Title : La Geometrie de XIXeme Siecle pour les philosophes : autour d’une presentation de P. Tannery dans La Revue Philosophique de La France et de L’Etranger

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21st – 23rd MAY 2012

Ecole Normale Superieure Paris 45 Rue D’Ulm

“Bachelard face aux Mathematiques”

An International Colloquium to mark the 50th Anniversary of the death of Gaston BACHELARD

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22nd MAY 2012

Paris.  Ecole SUPMECA : Mathematiques Innovantes

2012 Colloquium  (in an annual series)

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22nd – 26th MAY 2012

St Petersburg, Russian Republic :  The Euler Institute

PHML 2012

Philosophy Mathematics and Linguistiucs : An International Conference

PROGRAM

 

Tuesday 22nd MAY 2012

 

0950 – 1000 :  Opening Remarks

1000 – 1055  :  Invited Plenary Lecture :   Yuri MANIN

Foundations as Evolving  Superstructure : Reflections of A Practicing  Mathematician

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1100 – 1155  :  Michiel van LAMBALGEN

The Completeness of Kant’s Table of Judgements and its consequences for contemporary philosophy of mathematics

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Coffee Break

1210 – 1305  :  Theodore ACHOURIOTI

Kant’s Theory of Truth

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1310 – 1405  :  Grigori MINTS

Geometric Logic – Classical and Intuitionistic

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1410 -1505  :  Oleg B PROSOROV

Topologies and Sheaves: AsA Framework for the Study of Syntax and Semantics of Natural languages

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Conclusion of Day 1 Talks

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Wednesday 23rd MAY 2012

 

1000 – 1055  :  Jaakko HINTIKKA

IF (Independence – Friendly) Logic and Linguistic Theory

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1100 – 1155  :  Gabriel SANDU

IF Logic and Foundations of Mathematics

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Coffee Break

1210 – 1300  :  Edward F. KARAVAEV

Belief and Knowledge : Kant’s Heritage in Contemporary Philosophy and Logic

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1310- 1405  :  Andrey PATKUL

Kant’s Treatment of Logic in Historical Context

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1410 – 1505  :  Andrei RODIN

Univalence and Constructive Identity

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1505 – 1630  :  LUNCH

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1630 – 1800  :  PANEL DISCUSSION : THE HERITAGE OF KANT AND IT’S SIGNIFICANCE IN CONTEMPORARY FORMAL LOGIC

Speakers : T. ACHOURIOTI  J HINTIKKA  E KARAVAEV  M Van LAMBALGEN  G PRIEST  A PATKUL  G MINTS

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Coffee Break

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PM Parallel Sessions : HALL 1 :

1815 – 1840  :  Jos TELLINGS

On The Relation between Language and Mathematics

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1845 – 1910  :  Hans M DIETZ and Janna ROHDE

Adventures in Reading Math

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1915 – 1940  :  Paniel Osberto Reyes CARDENAS

Mathematical Structuralism, Continuity and Peirce’s Diagrammatic Reasoning

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PM Parallel Sessions  HALL 2

1815 – 1840  :  Yury V NECHITYALOV

Basic Principles for the Dynamic Elimination of Logical Omniscience

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1845 – 1910  :  Marcos CRAMER

Implicit dynamic function : An Introduction to the notion and its connection with the foundations of mathematics

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1915 – 1940  :  Vladimir STEPANOV

The dynamic model of a language allowing for the mechanism of self-reference

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Conclusion of Day 2 Talks

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Thursday 24th MAY 2012

 

1000 – 1055  :  Francis Jeffrey PELLETIER

The Effect of Applying Mathematical Logic to Metaphysical Concepts of Vagueness :

Is Vagueness an Epistemic or a Metaphysical Notion ?

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1100 – 1155 :  :  Vladimir L VASYUKOV

The Categorial Ontology of Non-Classical Mathematics

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Coffee Break

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1210 – 1305  :  Isidora STOJANOVIC and Oliver KUTZ

Generalized Quantifiers and Ontological Commitments

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1310 – 1405  :  Markus WENING

Making Quotation transparent

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LUNCH

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1530 – 1625  :  Bertand BOLSVERT Louis FERAUD and Sergei SOLOVIEV

Graph Transformations, proofs and Grammars

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1630 – 1725  :   Mark COLYVAN

From Notation to Knowledge

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1730 – 1825  :  Igor D NEVVAZHAY

The Semiotics of Mathematical Culture(s)

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Conclusion of Day 3 Talks

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Friday 25th MAY 2012

1000 – 1055  :   Graham PRIEST

The Axiom of Countability

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1100 – 1155  :   Dima GRIGORIEV

Complexity Frontiers in Mathematics

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1210 – 1205  :   Anatol SLISSENKO

Towards an Analysis of the Informational Structure of Computations

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1310 – 1405 ;   edward A HIRSH

Proving theorems heuristiclly

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LUNCH

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1530 – 1625  :   Michel De GLAS

Locology and localistic logic : mathematical and epistemological aspects

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1630 – 1725  :   Luke JERZYKIWICZ

Mathematical Realism and Conceptual Semantics

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1725 – 1800  :   Additional Speaker (TBA)

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Conclusion of Day 4 Talks

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Closure of Conference

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For further details see :  http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2012/PhML/index.htm

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24th MAY 2012

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Week 5 of Summer Term 2012 Series

4:30 PM Lecture Room 10 Merton Street

Jeff BARRETT (UC Davis)

On the Empirical Adequacy of Pure Wave Mechanics

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29th MAY 2012

Durham University

The Physics and Philosophy of Kirchoff’s Theory of Diffraction

A 150th Anniversary Conference

For further details and program see :

http://www.dur.ac.uk/i.j.kidd/kirchhoff-diffraction.htm

http://www.dur.ac.uk/i.j.kidd/kirchhoff-diffraction.htm

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29th MAY – 2nd JUNE 2012

I.R.M.A.  Strasbourg

(Institut de Recherches en Mathematiques Avances)

Colloquium on Cohomology and automorphic forms

For more details see  http://www.irma.strasbg.fr/article 1273.html

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MAY 29th – JUNE 1st 2012

University of Muenster, Germany

VON NEUMANN : An International Conference

Speakers include :

Micael ATIYAH

Arnand PILLAY

John LOTT

and many others

video and audio reording to be arranged.

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31st MAY 2012

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Week 6 of Summer Term 2012 Series

4:30 PM Lecture Room 10 Merton Street

Tony SHORT (DAMTP Cambridge)

A Quantum Approach to Equilibrium

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Many more events for May 2012 to be added. Including all Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminars