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Remenbrance and writing in the Lais of Marie de France Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Guest lecturer 11 Feb 2009 → 18 Feb 2009 Series The construction of an ancestor : the formation of the Abrahamic cycle Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Lecture The aim of this lecture, which reports on the professor's current research, was to analyze the biblical story of Abraham (Genesis 11:27-25:31) and to reconstruct the socio-historical contexts in which the various texts on Judaism's founding ancestor came … 11 Feb 2009 → 07 May 2009 Event Laurens Molenkamp Thermoelectric Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures (I) Seminar Thermoelectric experiments on nanostructures are often complicated by the need to apply a temperature difference of a few K across a device a few 100 nm in size. In semiconductors, such large gradients lead to very strong phonon drag effects, which … 12 Nov 2013 10:45 to 11:35 Event Pierre-Louis Lions Elliptic or parabolic equations, and specified homogenization (2) Lecture 8 Nov 2013 10:00 to 11:00 Series Disability in the Prophetic Utopian Vision Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Guest lecturer 06 Feb 2009 Series The Horns of Moses. Bringing the Bible into history Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Opening lecture 05 Feb 2009 Series Power and divination Jean-Marie Durand, chair Assyriology Lecture 05 Feb 2009 → 02 Apr 2009 Event James Woodward Interventionism Defended: Methodology, Circularity, and Truth Conditions Symposium Abstract In Making Things Happen, I claimed that it is methodologically useful to interpret causal claims as claims about what would happen under interventions. This "interventionist" idea has been criticized on a number of grounds. Among other … 6 Dec 2013 16:45 to 17:45 Event Christopher Hitchcock Actual Causation, Causal Paths, and Plans Symposium Abstract Causal models, such as structural equation models and causal Bayes nets, naturally provide a conception of causal paths and path-specific effects. These ideas have also been used in accounts of actual causation. In this talk, I explore the … 6 Dec 2013 15:45 to 16:45 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 to 12:30 Series Exo-planets, stars and galaxies : observational advances Antoine Labeyrie, chair Observational astrophysics Seminar 04 Feb 2009 → 01 Apr 2009 Series Constituent power and Europe Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences Symposium Forged by Sieyès, the theory of constituent power has played a key role in the way French legal thought has interpreted the principles of modern constitutionalism. A return to reflection and theoretical questioning on the notion of constituent power may … 12 Dec 2008 Event Helen Beebee Difference-Making and Causal Exclusion: Is There Still a Problem? Symposium Abstract "Difference-making" accounts of causation have recently been put to use in solving the "exclusion problem": the problem of explaining how mental properties can be causes if they supervene on but are not identical with their physical realisers. … 6 Dec 2013 10:20 to 11:20 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 to 10:00 Series Exo-planets, stars and galaxies : observational advances Antoine Labeyrie, chair Observational astrophysics Lecture 04 Feb 2009 → 01 Apr 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 12:30 Event Claudine Tiercelin Opening Symposium 5 Dec 2013 09:00 to 09:10 Event Roger Chartier Literary geographies (16th-18th centuries) (6) Lecture 7 Nov 2013 11:00 to 12:00 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 to 12:00 Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (11) Lecture 18 Dec 2013 15:00 to 16:00 Event Henry Laurens Arab political culture (6) Seminar 18 Dec 2013 11:30 to 13:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 716 Page 717 Page 718 Page 719 Page 720 Page 721 Page 722 Page 723 Page 724 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Series Legends of absolute love. Remenbrance and writing in the Lais of Marie de France Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Guest lecturer 11 Feb 2009 → 18 Feb 2009
Series The construction of an ancestor : the formation of the Abrahamic cycle Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Lecture The aim of this lecture, which reports on the professor's current research, was to analyze the biblical story of Abraham (Genesis 11:27-25:31) and to reconstruct the socio-historical contexts in which the various texts on Judaism's founding ancestor came … 11 Feb 2009 → 07 May 2009
Event Laurens Molenkamp Thermoelectric Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures (I) Seminar Thermoelectric experiments on nanostructures are often complicated by the need to apply a temperature difference of a few K across a device a few 100 nm in size. In semiconductors, such large gradients lead to very strong phonon drag effects, which … 12 Nov 2013 10:45 to 11:35
Event Pierre-Louis Lions Elliptic or parabolic equations, and specified homogenization (2) Lecture 8 Nov 2013 10:00 to 11:00
Series Disability in the Prophetic Utopian Vision Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Guest lecturer 06 Feb 2009
Series The Horns of Moses. Bringing the Bible into history Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Opening lecture 05 Feb 2009
Event James Woodward Interventionism Defended: Methodology, Circularity, and Truth Conditions Symposium Abstract In Making Things Happen, I claimed that it is methodologically useful to interpret causal claims as claims about what would happen under interventions. This "interventionist" idea has been criticized on a number of grounds. Among other … 6 Dec 2013 16:45 to 17:45
Event Christopher Hitchcock Actual Causation, Causal Paths, and Plans Symposium Abstract Causal models, such as structural equation models and causal Bayes nets, naturally provide a conception of causal paths and path-specific effects. These ideas have also been used in accounts of actual causation. In this talk, I explore the … 6 Dec 2013 15:45 to 16:45
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 to 12:30
Series Exo-planets, stars and galaxies : observational advances Antoine Labeyrie, chair Observational astrophysics Seminar 04 Feb 2009 → 01 Apr 2009
Series Constituent power and Europe Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences Symposium Forged by Sieyès, the theory of constituent power has played a key role in the way French legal thought has interpreted the principles of modern constitutionalism. A return to reflection and theoretical questioning on the notion of constituent power may … 12 Dec 2008
Event Helen Beebee Difference-Making and Causal Exclusion: Is There Still a Problem? Symposium Abstract "Difference-making" accounts of causation have recently been put to use in solving the "exclusion problem": the problem of explaining how mental properties can be causes if they supervene on but are not identical with their physical realisers. … 6 Dec 2013 10:20 to 11:20
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 to 10:00
Series Exo-planets, stars and galaxies : observational advances Antoine Labeyrie, chair Observational astrophysics Lecture 04 Feb 2009 → 01 Apr 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 12:30
Event Roger Chartier Literary geographies (16th-18th centuries) (6) Lecture 7 Nov 2013 11:00 to 12:00
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 to 12:00
Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (11) Lecture 18 Dec 2013 15:00 to 16:00