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On the one hand, it appears as a quantity like any other, represented by certain mathematical symbols. But on the other, its role as a quantity is different from that … 3 Oct 2019 15:45 - 16:35 Event Nikk Effingham The Wave Theory of Time Symposium Abstract This paper presents a new temporal ontology, to compete with presentism, eternalism, etc. Like moving spotlight theory, wave theory says (i) that there exist four-dimensional hunks of matter and (ii) the world is fundamentally tensed. However, … 3 Oct 2019 14:35 - 15:45 Event Baptiste Le Bihan String theory, loop quantum gravity and eternalism Symposium Abstract Eternalism, the thesis that past and future entities exist in the same way as present ones, is a natural philosophical interpretation of special relativity and general relativity. However, these two theories are not fundamental, and several … 3 Oct 2019 13:45 - 14:35 Event Vincent Grandjean Towards a redefinition of theories of time Symposium Abstract The metaphysical Growing Block Theory seems particularly well-suited to account for some of our fundamental intuitions about time: time has a direction, our present extends to the whole universe, the past is closed while the future is open, and … 3 Oct 2019 11:15 - 12:05 Event Jiri Benovsky Theory A of time, passage of time, endurantism, and metaphysical insights Symposium Abstract Intuitions about the passage of time or the idea that objects persist through time by being numerically identical and fully localized at different instants play an important role in some arguments in favor of the A theory of time or endurantism. … 3 Oct 2019 10:05 - 10:55 Event Robin Le Poidevin Memory, McTaggart and the Descriptive Metaphysics of Time Symposium Abstract When the "new" B-theory of time emerged in the 1980s, its proponents typically conceded that our ordinary conceptual scheme represents the presentness of events as non-perspectival, while insisting that in reality presentness is purely … 3 Oct 2019 09:15 - 10:05 Series Rongi - Buddhist disputes in Japan Jean-Noël Robert, chair Philology of Japanese civilization Symposium 10 Oct 2017 Series François Jacob Day Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB) Symposium 12 Oct 2017 Series Legal figures of economic democracy (II) Alain Supiot, chair The Social State and Globalization: A Legal Analysis of Forms of Solidarity Lecture The 2017-2018 lecture was devoted to the question of the democratization of the company. Its first part sought to grasp the legal notion of the enterprise, by analyzing the difficulties of its definition, tracing its institutional genealogy and revisiting … 27 Oct 2017 → 19 Jan 2018 Event Eric Deeds The Evolution of Cellular Individuality Seminar Prof. Deeds performed his undergraduate work at Case Western Reserve University and graduated with degrees in Biochemistry and English Literature. He pursued his Ph.D. studies in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard under the … 8 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:00 Event Pierre-Louis Lions HJB, MFG and others (continued) (1) Lecture 8 Nov 2019 09:00 - 11:00 Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (2) Lecture Le Périple de la mer Erythrée : les voyages en Inde et en Afrique orientale (suite). The question of Rhapta, the last emporion on the east coast of Africa. Libyan voyages (Phoenician, Egyptian, Persian). Hannon's journey . The circumnavigations of … 7 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30 Event Barbara Romanowicz Teleseismic travel time tomography ( Travel time tomography ) Lecture Continuing in the second lecture, we progressively established the essential elements for building tomographic models of the Earth's mantle : types of data, level of approximation of wave propagation theory, physical and geometric parameterization of the … 5 Nov 2019 16:00 - 18:00 Event Philippe Aghion Counterpowers (2) Lecture 5 Nov 2019 14:00 - 16:00 Event Walter Fontana Inheriting biological information : transmission limits Lecture The second unit of the lecture focused on the evolutionary propagation of information, as seen through the classical model of Manfred Eigen, in which sequences reproduce with errors in a flow reactor. The model gives rise to a system of differential … 5 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30 Series Nature in question Opening symposia Special events Untitled Opening symposium 2017-2018 Should man modify nature? Neither God nor nature Bringing nature into politics Nature: an evidence on probation Presentation by Philippe Descola Nature isn't what it used to be. As a domain of regularity independent of … 18 Oct 2017 → 20 Oct 2017 Event Hugues de Thé Senescence and therapeutic response (2) Lecture 4 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30 Series The principles of epistemology Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Symposium Conference coordinated by Benoit Gaultier . In devoting the third international colloquium of the Groupe de Recherche en Épistémologie (GRÉ) of Professor Tiercelin's Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge to the principles of epistemology, the … 28 Sep 2017 → 29 Sep 2017 Series Marcelo Nobrega Edith Heard, chair Epigenetics and Cellular Memory Guest lecturer Marcelo Nobrega has been invited by the Professors' Assembly, at the suggestion of Professor Edith Heard, holder of the Epigenetics and Cellular Memory … 13 Oct 2017 → 16 Oct 2017 Event Edith Heard Research and innovation : a European researcher's perspective Special events Edith Heard is Professor at the Collège de France. Trained as a geneticist, she heads the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit and the Mammalian Epigenesis and Development team at the Institut Curie. For several years, she has been studying epigenetic … 11 Oct 2019 16:05 - 16:50 Series Mechanics of morphogenesis : fundamental principles Thomas Lecuit, chair Dynamics of Living Systems Lecture Thomas Lecuit presents his lecture of the year in the series les courTs du Collège de France The 2017-2018 lecture, "Mechanics of morphogenesis: fundamental principles", initiates the theme of the molecular, cellular and biophysical bases of tissue forms … 17 Oct 2017 → 28 Nov 2017 Series Olive trees and olive oil in antiquity (1) Jean-Pierre Brun, chair Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean Lecture Olives and olive oil were among the main agricultural products of antiquity, along with cereals, legumes, wine and livestock products. Their use and the domestication of the olive tree date back to at least the Neolithic period. Over the course of time, … 17 Oct 2017 → 19 Dec 2017 Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (1) Lecture The African continent : some problems of representation and naming. How the " imago " of Africa is constructed : medieval European maps. The representation of Africa in planispheres from the Ptolemaic tradition to the Renaissance. The words " Africa " and … 31 Oct 2019 14:00 - 15:30 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 361 Page 362 Page 363 Page 364 Current page 365 Page 366 Page 367 Page 368 Page 369 … Next page Last page
Event Philippe Huneman Moderate pluralism for time in the natural sciences : irreversibility, time scales and model dependence Symposium Abstract Philosophical tradition often opposes the time of consciousness or the subject, and the time of nature or the world, thus drawing a division between the great philosophers of time - Kant, Augustine or Husserl vs. Aristotle, Newton, Bergson. Where … 3 Oct 2019 16:35 - 17:35
Event Anouk Barberousse How is the examination of physical theories relevant to the metaphysical inquiry into time ? Symposium Abstract Since Newton's mechanics, time has had a special status in physical theories. On the one hand, it appears as a quantity like any other, represented by certain mathematical symbols. But on the other, its role as a quantity is different from that … 3 Oct 2019 15:45 - 16:35
Event Nikk Effingham The Wave Theory of Time Symposium Abstract This paper presents a new temporal ontology, to compete with presentism, eternalism, etc. Like moving spotlight theory, wave theory says (i) that there exist four-dimensional hunks of matter and (ii) the world is fundamentally tensed. However, … 3 Oct 2019 14:35 - 15:45
Event Baptiste Le Bihan String theory, loop quantum gravity and eternalism Symposium Abstract Eternalism, the thesis that past and future entities exist in the same way as present ones, is a natural philosophical interpretation of special relativity and general relativity. However, these two theories are not fundamental, and several … 3 Oct 2019 13:45 - 14:35
Event Vincent Grandjean Towards a redefinition of theories of time Symposium Abstract The metaphysical Growing Block Theory seems particularly well-suited to account for some of our fundamental intuitions about time: time has a direction, our present extends to the whole universe, the past is closed while the future is open, and … 3 Oct 2019 11:15 - 12:05
Event Jiri Benovsky Theory A of time, passage of time, endurantism, and metaphysical insights Symposium Abstract Intuitions about the passage of time or the idea that objects persist through time by being numerically identical and fully localized at different instants play an important role in some arguments in favor of the A theory of time or endurantism. … 3 Oct 2019 10:05 - 10:55
Event Robin Le Poidevin Memory, McTaggart and the Descriptive Metaphysics of Time Symposium Abstract When the "new" B-theory of time emerged in the 1980s, its proponents typically conceded that our ordinary conceptual scheme represents the presentness of events as non-perspectival, while insisting that in reality presentness is purely … 3 Oct 2019 09:15 - 10:05
Series Rongi - Buddhist disputes in Japan Jean-Noël Robert, chair Philology of Japanese civilization Symposium 10 Oct 2017
Series François Jacob Day Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB) Symposium 12 Oct 2017
Series Legal figures of economic democracy (II) Alain Supiot, chair The Social State and Globalization: A Legal Analysis of Forms of Solidarity Lecture The 2017-2018 lecture was devoted to the question of the democratization of the company. Its first part sought to grasp the legal notion of the enterprise, by analyzing the difficulties of its definition, tracing its institutional genealogy and revisiting … 27 Oct 2017 → 19 Jan 2018
Event Eric Deeds The Evolution of Cellular Individuality Seminar Prof. Deeds performed his undergraduate work at Case Western Reserve University and graduated with degrees in Biochemistry and English Literature. He pursued his Ph.D. studies in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard under the … 8 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:00
Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (2) Lecture Le Périple de la mer Erythrée : les voyages en Inde et en Afrique orientale (suite). The question of Rhapta, the last emporion on the east coast of Africa. Libyan voyages (Phoenician, Egyptian, Persian). Hannon's journey . The circumnavigations of … 7 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30
Event Barbara Romanowicz Teleseismic travel time tomography ( Travel time tomography ) Lecture Continuing in the second lecture, we progressively established the essential elements for building tomographic models of the Earth's mantle : types of data, level of approximation of wave propagation theory, physical and geometric parameterization of the … 5 Nov 2019 16:00 - 18:00
Event Walter Fontana Inheriting biological information : transmission limits Lecture The second unit of the lecture focused on the evolutionary propagation of information, as seen through the classical model of Manfred Eigen, in which sequences reproduce with errors in a flow reactor. The model gives rise to a system of differential … 5 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30
Series Nature in question Opening symposia Special events Untitled Opening symposium 2017-2018 Should man modify nature? Neither God nor nature Bringing nature into politics Nature: an evidence on probation Presentation by Philippe Descola Nature isn't what it used to be. As a domain of regularity independent of … 18 Oct 2017 → 20 Oct 2017
Series The principles of epistemology Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Symposium Conference coordinated by Benoit Gaultier . In devoting the third international colloquium of the Groupe de Recherche en Épistémologie (GRÉ) of Professor Tiercelin's Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge to the principles of epistemology, the … 28 Sep 2017 → 29 Sep 2017
Series Marcelo Nobrega Edith Heard, chair Epigenetics and Cellular Memory Guest lecturer Marcelo Nobrega has been invited by the Professors' Assembly, at the suggestion of Professor Edith Heard, holder of the Epigenetics and Cellular Memory … 13 Oct 2017 → 16 Oct 2017
Event Edith Heard Research and innovation : a European researcher's perspective Special events Edith Heard is Professor at the Collège de France. Trained as a geneticist, she heads the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit and the Mammalian Epigenesis and Development team at the Institut Curie. For several years, she has been studying epigenetic … 11 Oct 2019 16:05 - 16:50
Series Mechanics of morphogenesis : fundamental principles Thomas Lecuit, chair Dynamics of Living Systems Lecture Thomas Lecuit presents his lecture of the year in the series les courTs du Collège de France The 2017-2018 lecture, "Mechanics of morphogenesis: fundamental principles", initiates the theme of the molecular, cellular and biophysical bases of tissue forms … 17 Oct 2017 → 28 Nov 2017
Series Olive trees and olive oil in antiquity (1) Jean-Pierre Brun, chair Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean Lecture Olives and olive oil were among the main agricultural products of antiquity, along with cereals, legumes, wine and livestock products. Their use and the domestication of the olive tree date back to at least the Neolithic period. Over the course of time, … 17 Oct 2017 → 19 Dec 2017
Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (1) Lecture The African continent : some problems of representation and naming. How the " imago " of Africa is constructed : medieval European maps. The representation of Africa in planispheres from the Ptolemaic tradition to the Renaissance. The words " Africa " and … 31 Oct 2019 14:00 - 15:30
