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Paul Noordhof
Causation: New Arguments for the Counterfactual Theory of Causation
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Abstract I shall discuss the commitments of the counterfactual theory of causation and how it may be defended against competitors. …
11:20am - 12:30pm

Michael Strevens
Causal Reality: One Thing, Two Aspects
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Abstract Ned Hall has argued and many others have concurred that we have two related concepts of causation, roughly one of causation as "production" and one of causation as "dependence". If the two-concept thesis is correct, there is apparently a …
2:30 - 3:30pm

Stephen Mumford
Understanding Causation by Way of Failure
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Abstract Constant Conjunction (CC) is criticized by causal realists as being insufficient for causation. Realists often want causation to be CC + something more, such as necessity. But CC is not even a necessary condition for causation, which ought really …
3:50 - 4:50pm

Sara Bernstein
Possible Causation
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Abstract I argue that there are good theoretical reasons to hold that possible causation and actual causation exist on the same continuum, and suggest that this view can help us account for various controversial cases of redundant causation and causation …
11:30am - 12:30pm

Huw Price
Causation in the Quantum World-A New Case for the Paris Option?
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Abstract In 1953 de Broglie's student, Olivier Costa de Beauregard, raised what he took to be an objection to the EPR argument. He pointed out that the EPR assumption of Locality might fail, without action-at-a-distance, so long as the influence in …
9:10 - 10:10am

Claudine Tiercelin
Opening
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9:00 - 9:10am

Roger Chartier
Literary geographies (16th-18th centuries) (6)
Lecture
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11:00am - 12:00pm

Michel Redde
The architecture of Roman army forts in Egypt's Eastern Desert (2)
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Abstract Study of " The architecture of Roman army forts in Egypt's Eastern Desert " from a comparative perspective with the forts of the Roman …
11:00am - 12:00pm

Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history (2)
Lecture
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10:00 - 11:00am

Henry Laurens
The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (11)
Lecture
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3:00 - 4:00pm

Henry Laurens
Arab political culture (6)
Seminar
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11:30am - 1:00pm

Gilles Boeuf
Biodiversity, from ocean and forest to city
Opening lecture
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Abstract Today's major environmental issues are energy, water, climate change and biodiversity. Biodiversity was born in the ancestral ocean, built on pre-biotic chemistry derived from earlier geo-diversity, around 3850 million years ago (Ma), when the …
6:00 - 7:00pm

Jean Kellens
The Mazdean aspect (I)
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Traditional interpretation The traditional conception of Zoroastrianism is biographical and prophetic. It is based on the following situation: a prophet preaches a monotheistic doctrine in which concern for ethics supersedes Indo-Iranian sacrificial …
9:30 - 10:30am

Frantz Grenet
The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (6)
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If we try to compare the layout of the Aï Khanoum palace with that of the Nisa central complex, we can see that, despite the major difference in overall layout, there are certain functional similarities: nisa's esplanade would correspond to the palace's …
2:30 - 3:30pm

Guy Lecuyot
The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (6)
Seminar
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3:30 - 4:30pm

Anne Cheng
Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued) (3)
Seminar
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4:30 - 6:00pm

Anne Cheng
Readings from the Treatise on Rites (Liji) (3)
Seminar
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3:00 - 4:30pm

John Scheid
Gods of Rome, gods of the Romans. Reflections on Roman theologies (7)
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2:30 - 3:30pm

John Scheid
Gaetano Marini and the Acts of the Arvales brothers (1)
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4:00 - 5:00pm

Anne Cheng
Is Confucianism a humanism ? (3)
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11:00am - 12:00pm

Gérard Eberl
When microbes talk to the immune system
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5:30 - 6:30pm

Mathias Fink
Where is ultrasound imaging headed ?
Seminar
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5:00 - 6:00pm

Clément Sanchez
Optical probes : photons to probe our cells
Lecture
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4:00 - 5:00pm

Philippe Sansonetti
To be or not to be a pathogen, that is the question
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Coevolution has created an "immunological paradox", forcing the host to combine tolerance of the commensal microbiota with rapid recognition of pathogenic microbes. This raises an essential question: how does the host discriminate between a pathogen and a …
4:00 - 5:30pm