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Lessons on the will to know
Michel Foucault, chair History of systems of thought
Lecture
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These Lessons on the Will to Know remind us that Michel Foucault's work has never had more than one object : truth . Surveiller et Punir completes an investigation into the role of legal forms in the constitution of truth-telling, the first milestones of …
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Thomas Römer et Hervé Gonzalez
Translation of texts from the story of Jacob
Seminar
Event
Knowledge of Biblical Hebrew essential. …
15:30 to 16:30

Thomas Römer
The priestly version of the epic
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14:00 to 15:00

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
The nomos-king : Heraclitean prolegomena
Lecture
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Abstract This lesson continues to identify references to nomos as the ordering willed by the gods. In Heraclitus of Ephesus (fr. 144 D-K6 ), we find an interesting comparison between the common foundation of the logoi , the logos (cf. fr. 2 D-K6 ), and …
11:00 to 12:00

James Hollan
Thinking with Computers: Opportunities and Challenges
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James Hollan Jim Hollan is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. He is a 2021-2022 Paris-IEA Fellow and founding Co-Director of the UCSD Design Lab and the HCI and Distributed Cognition …
11:00 to 12:00

Samantha Besson
" Droit international public " and " droit international privé ", genealogy of an uneasy opposition and risks of the new confluence
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10:00 to 11:30

Wendy Mackay
Human capabilities for interaction
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Human-computer interaction draws its theories and methods from a wide variety of disciplines, particularly in the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences. This lesson presents the main readings from studies of humans, including perception, …
10:00 to 11:00

Pierrick Bousseau
Recent advances in enumerative geometry (1)
Guest lecturer
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10:00 to 12:00

Dario Mantovani
Wealth and justice : the thinking of the Ancients
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Abstract The ancient Roman world never had a body of knowledge comparable to the science of economics as we understand it today. However, in antiquity, there was a discourse on " economics " and numerous treatises on the subject (for example, those of …
14:30 to 15:30

Laurent Keller
Social evolution and ecological success
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11:30 to 12:30

Olivier Rioul
Information leaks and back-channel attacks
Seminar
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Abstract The definitions of Shannon entropy, Kullback-Leibler divergence and Fano mutual information were used by Shannon in " operational form " to solve coding problems (compression and transmission). Other types of problem call on other notions, such …
11:15 to 12:15

Tatiana Giraud
The evolution of behavior : why are we capable of altruism ?
Lecture
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Abstract This lecture is devoted to current theories, within the framework of neo-Darwinian theory, aimed at explaining the evolution of behaviors or traits that have long remained enigmas, such as cooperation (how can a behavior that costs offspring by …
10:00 to 11:30

Stéphane Mallat
Compression using orthogonal transforms
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Abstract Audio and image compression algorithms are often based on an orthogonal transformation that produces many small coefficients that can be approximated by zeros. The resulting coefficients are quantized and then represented in binary form using …
09:30 to 11:00

Jenny Wallensten
Exploring the interface between men and gods in ancient Greece (3)
Guest lecturer
Event
17:00 to 18:00

Seth Yalcin
Discussion (5)
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) …
19:00 to 19:45

Seth Yalcin
Iffy Knowledge and Iffy Existence
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) Abstract We know that Holmes doesn't exist. Yet we seem also to have lots of iffy knowledge of the form: if Holmes exists, Holmes is F (Yablo 2020). I will consider the question how best to …
18:15 to 19:00

Kit Fine
Discussion (4)
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) …
17:15 to 17:45

Kit Fine
Is Self-Reference Possible?
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) Abstract Yes, but not as easy to achieve as one might have thought. Kit Fine Kit Fine is University Professor and Silver Professor in Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. He mainly …
16:30 to 17:15

Gideon Rosen
Discussion (3)
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) …
15:45 to 16:30

Gideon Rosen
Coincidence and Consciousness
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) Abstract Yablo 1987 is an early statement of modal profile pluralism (MPP): the idea that in the vicinity of every ordinary object there exist infinitely many coincident objects, one for each …
15:00 to 15:45

Jean-Noël Robert
Farewell to the Lotus
Lecture
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10:30 to 11:30

Friederike Moltmann
Discussion (2)
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Jean-Baptise Rauzy (Sorbonne University) …
12:30 to 13:15

Friederike Moltmann
Object-Based Truthmaker Semantics for Different Clause Types
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Jean-Baptise Rauzy (Sorbonne University) Abstract I will present a development of object-based truthmaker semantics for different types of clauses, that-clauses on different readings, wh-clauses and infinitival clauses. Friederike …
11:45 to 12:30

Paul Égré
Discussion (1)
Symposium
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Session chaired by : Jean-Baptise Rauzy (Sorbonne University) …
11:00 to 11:45