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On the other, the ruling communist … 25 Feb 2009 → 02 Mar 2009 Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (2) Lecture 13 Nov 2013 16:00 - 17:00 Series The origins of human dialogue : Word and music Opening symposia Special events Pablo Picasso, The Three Musicians Opening symposium 2008-2009 What is the origin of our species' unique ability to give meaning to the expression of acoustic signals ? Speech and music shape social cognition by sharing emotional states, intentions, … 16 Oct 2008 → 17 Oct 2008 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 - 11:35 Event Pierre-Louis Lions Elliptic or parabolic equations, and specified homogenization (2) Lecture 8 Nov 2013 10:00 - 11:00 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 - 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 - 16:45 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 - 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 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 Series Ontology of becoming (3) Anne Fagot-Largeault, chair Philosophy of biological and medical sciences Lecture 29 Jan 2009 → 12 Mar 2009 Event Henry Laurens Arab political culture (6) Seminar 18 Dec 2013 11:30 - 13:00 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
Series The Great Transformation: the Double Movement in China Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics Guest lecturer What constitutes China's model of transition? According to the conventional wisdom, it has two key components. On the one hand, its development-oriented state has been unwaveringly following market-conforming policies. On the other, the ruling communist … 25 Feb 2009 → 02 Mar 2009
Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (2) Lecture 13 Nov 2013 16:00 - 17:00
Series The origins of human dialogue : Word and music Opening symposia Special events Pablo Picasso, The Three Musicians Opening symposium 2008-2009 What is the origin of our species' unique ability to give meaning to the expression of acoustic signals ? Speech and music shape social cognition by sharing emotional states, intentions, … 16 Oct 2008 → 17 Oct 2008
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 - 11:35
Event Pierre-Louis Lions Elliptic or parabolic equations, and specified homogenization (2) Lecture 8 Nov 2013 10:00 - 11:00
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 - 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 - 16:45
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 - 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 - 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 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 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 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 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
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
Series Ontology of becoming (3) Anne Fagot-Largeault, chair Philosophy of biological and medical sciences Lecture 29 Jan 2009 → 12 Mar 2009
