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One particularly influential and long-running … 6 Dec 2013 09:00 - 10:00 Event Paul Noordhof Causation: New Arguments for the Counterfactual Theory of Causation Symposium Abstract I shall discuss the commitments of the counterfactual theory of causation and how it may be defended against competitors. … 6 Dec 2013 11:20 - 12:30 Series Methods in art history Current status Roland Recht, chair History of medieval and modern European art Seminar 18 May 2009 → 25 May 2009 Event Michael Strevens Causal Reality: One Thing, Two Aspects Symposium 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 … 5 Dec 2013 14:30 - 15:30 Event Stephen Mumford Understanding Causation by Way of Failure Symposium 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 … 5 Dec 2013 15:50 - 16:50 Event Huw Price Causation in the Quantum World-A New Case for the Paris Option? Symposium 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 … 5 Dec 2013 09:10 - 10:10 Event Sara Bernstein Possible Causation Symposium 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 … 5 Dec 2013 11:30 - 12:30 Event Claudine Tiercelin Opening Symposium 5 Dec 2013 09:00 - 09:10 Event Roger Chartier Literary geographies (16th-18th centuries) (6) Lecture 7 Nov 2013 11:00 - 12:00 Series Closing of the fourth International Polar Year Edouard Bard, chair Climate and Ocean Evolution Symposium 15 May 2009 Event Michel Redde The architecture of Roman army forts in Egypt's Eastern Desert (2) Seminar Abstract Study of " The architecture of Roman army forts in Egypt's Eastern Desert " from a comparative perspective with the forts of the Roman … 5 Nov 2013 11:00 - 12:00 Series Quantum signals and circuits (continued) Michel Devoret, chair Mesoscopic physics Seminar 12 May 2009 → 23 Jun 2009 Series Quantum signals and circuits (continued) Michel Devoret, chair Mesoscopic physics Lecture In computer science, the notion of the bit as an elementary unit of information is often discussed in abstract terms, dissociated from a particular implementation, for example when dealing with Boolean operations. This is justified by the universality of … 12 May 2009 → 23 Jun 2009 Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (11) Lecture 18 Dec 2013 15:00 - 16:00 Event Sanjay Subrahmanyam Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history (2) Lecture 9 Dec 2013 10:00 - 11:00 Event Henry Laurens Arab political culture (6) Seminar 18 Dec 2013 11:30 - 13:00 Event Gilles Boeuf Biodiversity, from ocean and forest to city Opening lecture 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 … 19 Dec 2013 18:00 - 19:00 Series Ontology of becoming (3) Anne Fagot-Largeault, chair Philosophy of biological and medical sciences Lecture 29 Jan 2009 → 12 Mar 2009 Event Jean Kellens The Mazdean aspect (I) Lecture 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 … 20 Dec 2013 09:30 - 10:30 Event Guy Lecuyot The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (6) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 15:30 - 16:30 Event Frantz Grenet The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (6) Lecture 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 … 19 Dec 2013 14:30 - 15:30 Event John Scheid Gaetano Marini and the Acts of the Arvales brothers (1) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 16:00 - 17:00 Event Anne Cheng Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued) (3) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 16:30 - 18:00 Event Anne Cheng Readings from the Treatise on Rites (Liji) (3) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 15:00 - 16:30 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 653 Page 654 Page 655 Page 656 Current page 657 Page 658 Page 659 Page 660 Page 661 … Next page Last page
Event Thomas Pradeu Development, Information and Causation Symposium Abstract How does a fertilized egg develop into an embryo and subsequently into an adult form? The issue of what causes morphogenesis has fascinated philosophers and biologists alike, at least since Aristotle. One particularly influential and long-running … 6 Dec 2013 09:00 - 10:00
Event Paul Noordhof Causation: New Arguments for the Counterfactual Theory of Causation Symposium Abstract I shall discuss the commitments of the counterfactual theory of causation and how it may be defended against competitors. … 6 Dec 2013 11:20 - 12:30
Series Methods in art history Current status Roland Recht, chair History of medieval and modern European art Seminar 18 May 2009 → 25 May 2009
Event Michael Strevens Causal Reality: One Thing, Two Aspects Symposium 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 … 5 Dec 2013 14:30 - 15:30
Event Stephen Mumford Understanding Causation by Way of Failure Symposium 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 … 5 Dec 2013 15:50 - 16:50
Event Huw Price Causation in the Quantum World-A New Case for the Paris Option? Symposium 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 … 5 Dec 2013 09:10 - 10:10
Event Sara Bernstein Possible Causation Symposium 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 … 5 Dec 2013 11:30 - 12:30
Series Closing of the fourth International Polar Year Edouard Bard, chair Climate and Ocean Evolution Symposium 15 May 2009
Event Michel Redde The architecture of Roman army forts in Egypt's Eastern Desert (2) Seminar Abstract Study of " The architecture of Roman army forts in Egypt's Eastern Desert " from a comparative perspective with the forts of the Roman … 5 Nov 2013 11:00 - 12:00
Series Quantum signals and circuits (continued) Michel Devoret, chair Mesoscopic physics Seminar 12 May 2009 → 23 Jun 2009
Series Quantum signals and circuits (continued) Michel Devoret, chair Mesoscopic physics Lecture In computer science, the notion of the bit as an elementary unit of information is often discussed in abstract terms, dissociated from a particular implementation, for example when dealing with Boolean operations. This is justified by the universality of … 12 May 2009 → 23 Jun 2009
Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (11) Lecture 18 Dec 2013 15:00 - 16:00
Event Sanjay Subrahmanyam Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history (2) Lecture 9 Dec 2013 10:00 - 11:00
Event Gilles Boeuf Biodiversity, from ocean and forest to city Opening lecture 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 … 19 Dec 2013 18:00 - 19:00
Series Ontology of becoming (3) Anne Fagot-Largeault, chair Philosophy of biological and medical sciences Lecture 29 Jan 2009 → 12 Mar 2009
Event Jean Kellens The Mazdean aspect (I) Lecture 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 … 20 Dec 2013 09:30 - 10:30
Event Guy Lecuyot The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (6) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 15:30 - 16:30
Event Frantz Grenet The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (6) Lecture 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 … 19 Dec 2013 14:30 - 15:30
Event John Scheid Gaetano Marini and the Acts of the Arvales brothers (1) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 16:00 - 17:00
Event Anne Cheng Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued) (3) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 16:30 - 18:00