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One particularly influential and long-running … 6 Dec 2013 09:00 to 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 to 12:30 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 Series Shapes, deformations, transformations Philippe Descola, chair Anthropology of nature Seminar 20 Mar 2009 Series From Genes to Genomes. Genetics and Functional Genomics of Drosophila melanogaster Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, chair Developmental biology and genetics Seminar 20 Mar 2009 → 27 Mar 2009 Series Shapes, deformations, transformations Alain Prochiantz, chair Morphogenetic processes Seminar 20 Mar 2009 Event Roger Chartier Literary geographies (16th-18th centuries) (6) Lecture 7 Nov 2013 11:00 to 12:00 Series From memory of the past to anticipation Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action Seminar 07 Jan 2009 → 11 Feb 2009 Series Cognitive foundations of identity : between memory of the past and anticipation Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action Lecture 07 Jan 2009 → 11 Feb 2009 Series Demographics, the end of the transition ? Henri Leridon, chair Sustainable development - Environment, energy and society Lecture 18 Mar 2009 → 20 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 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 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 to 19:00 Event Henry Laurens Arab political culture (6) Seminar 18 Dec 2013 11:30 to 13:00 Event Sanjay Subrahmanyam Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history (2) Lecture 9 Dec 2013 10:00 to 11:00 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 to 10:30 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 to 15:30 Event Guy Lecuyot The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (6) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 15:30 to 16:30 Event John Scheid Gaetano Marini and the Acts of the Arvales brothers (1) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 16:00 to 17:00 Event Anne Cheng Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued) (3) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 16:30 to 18:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 830 Page 831 Page 832 Page 833 Page 834 Page 835 Page 836 Page 837 Page 838 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
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
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
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
Series Shapes, deformations, transformations Philippe Descola, chair Anthropology of nature Seminar 20 Mar 2009
Series From Genes to Genomes. Genetics and Functional Genomics of Drosophila melanogaster Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, chair Developmental biology and genetics Seminar 20 Mar 2009 → 27 Mar 2009
Series Shapes, deformations, transformations Alain Prochiantz, chair Morphogenetic processes Seminar 20 Mar 2009
Event Roger Chartier Literary geographies (16th-18th centuries) (6) Lecture 7 Nov 2013 11:00 to 12:00
Series From memory of the past to anticipation Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action Seminar 07 Jan 2009 → 11 Feb 2009
Series Cognitive foundations of identity : between memory of the past and anticipation Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action Lecture 07 Jan 2009 → 11 Feb 2009
Series Demographics, the end of the transition ? Henri Leridon, chair Sustainable development - Environment, energy and society Lecture 18 Mar 2009 → 20 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 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 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 to 19:00
Event Sanjay Subrahmanyam Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history (2) Lecture 9 Dec 2013 10:00 to 11:00
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 to 10:30
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 to 15:30
Event Guy Lecuyot The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (6) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 15:30 to 16:30
Event John Scheid Gaetano Marini and the Acts of the Arvales brothers (1) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 16:00 to 17:00
Event Anne Cheng Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued) (3) Seminar 19 Dec 2013 16:30 to 18:00