From liverpool.ac.uk!philos-l-request Sun Oct 2 11:49:10 1994 Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 11:47:15 BST From: MR G HUNT Please copy and display. BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE NEWSLETTER No. 12, October 1994 (Ver. 1) Edited by G.M.K.Hunt The newsletter will be circulated to members and relevant institutions for October, January and April each year. Announcements of conferences, meetings and lectures should be sent to BSPS Newsletter, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England (FAX 0203 523019, EMAIL g.m.k.hunt@uk.ac.warwick.csv) two weeks before publication dates. Space for paid block advertisements is also available. Apart from meetings of the Society, advance permission should be sought before attending other gatherings. OCTOBER 10 Henry Plotkin Biology & the nature of knowledge UCL 22 Gord. Sq. Rm G3 2.15pm 10 BSPS Ray Monk "Full-blooded Bolshevism": Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics. L.S.E. Tymes Court Building, Room T206. 5.30 pm 12 John Christie On Drawing Elephants - Some Philosophical Problems In Theoretical Chemistry. Univ. of Warwick Rm S1.14 Soc. Stud. Bldg. 5.00 pm. 18 Jerry Katz Skolemite paradoxes & indeterminancy arguments Clare Coll. Camb. Thirkell Rm. 8.30 pm 19 David Miller On Excess Content. Univ. of Warwick Rm S1.14 Soc. Stud. Bldg. 5.00 pm. 24 Jeremy Gray Henri Poincare & the pre-history of Chaos UCL 22 Gord. Sq. Rm G3 2.15 pm 24 J. V. Field Renaissance Rediscovery of the Archimedian Polyhedra Roy. Inst. Council Rm. 4.30 p.m. 27 G.M.K.Hunt Contrastive Explanation & Complexity Univ. of Warwick Rm S.1.14 2.15 pm NOVEMBER 1 Greg Myers The Linguistic Analysis of Scientific Writings: Nineteenth Century Texts and Contexts. University of Manchester Room 3.29, 3rd floor, Mathematics Tower, Oxford Rd 4.00 pm 1 Tim Crane The mental causation debate Clare Coll. Camb. Thirkell Rm 8.30 pm 2 Dominique Pestre Science Studies Since The 1970s and their Consequences: towards New Approaches and New Objectives in History of Science. Science Museum Collections Division Seminar Room 4.00 pm 2 Maureen Christie Investigating Antarctic Ozone Depletion: A Crucial Experiment in Modern Science? University of Warwick Rm. S1.14 Soc. Stud. Bldg. 5.00 pm. 7 Donald Gillies Can computers discover scientific laws? UCL 22Gord.Sq. Rm G3 2.15 pm 7 BSPS Paul Horwich Realism and Truth. L.S.E., Tymes Court Building, Room T206. 16 Steve Russ Bolzano & the Foundations of Computing. Univ. of Warwick Rm. S1.14 Soc. Stud. Bldg. 5.00 pm. 21 Steven Miller Big Bang & Bigger Bangs: A look at astronomy in the British media UCL 22 Gord. Sq. Rm G3 2.15 pm. 22 Peter Clark Intuitionist logicism & anti-realist platonism Clare Coll. Camb. Thirkell Rm 8.30 pm DECEMBER 5 Clive Kilmister The Eddington mystery: His search for a fundamental theory UCL 22 Gord. Sq. Rm G3 2.15 pm 5 BSPS Steven French Partiality, Pursuit and Practice. L.S.E, Tymes Court Building, Room T206. 5..15 pm 7 Keith Hoskin The Scientific Self as Viewing Self: from Plato to Kuhn and Beyond. University of Warwick Rm. S1.14 Soc. Stud. Bldg. 5.00 pm. CONFERENCES 25-28 September 1994 The Second Australian Conference On Complex Systems, COMPLEX'94. Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. (Information regarding COMPLEX'94 can be found in the anonymous ftp site jasper.ucq.edu.au or jasper.cqu.edu.au under subdirectory ComplexSystems/Announce) 29 October 1994 Technology & Subjectivity. Details: The Secretary, School of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London, N17 8HR. Tel:081-362-5370. 13-20 August 1995 Culture and Value Philosophy and the Cultural Sciences. . For Further Information: The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Markt 2, A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria. Tel./Fax.: (+43) 2641-2557. 19-25 August 1995 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Florence, Italy ( LMPS, Centro Servizi Segreteria Via A. Lapini, 1-50136 Florence Italy) * * * Advertising Space Available - Contact the Editor