The John J. Reilly Center

Program in History and Philosophy of Science

1998

Fall Lecture Series



Fritz Rohrlich

Department of Physics, Syracuse University

"Theory Reduction versus Reductive Explanation"

4:15 on Tuesday, September 1, 1998

313 DeBartolo



Alexander Rosenberg

Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia

"Limits to Biology"

4:15 on Thursday, October 1, 1998

213 DeBartolo



Peter Dear

Department of History, Cornell University

"Mysteries of State and Nature:

Expertise and Politics in the Seventeenth Century"

4:15 on Thursday, October 15, 1998

213 DeBartolo



Margaret Osler

Department of History, University of Calgary

"How Mechanical Was the Mechanical Philosophy?"

4:15 on Thursday, November 12, 1998

216 DeBartolo


Abner Shimony

Department of Physics, Boston University

"Intellectual Responsibilities of Naturalism"

4:15 on Thursday, December 3, 1998

213 DeBartolo