University of Pittsburgh
September 25, 2000

Pitt's Center for Philosophy of Science ANNOUNCES Lunch time Lecture Series

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Pittsburgh, September 18 -- The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh will resume its lunch time lecture series in September and October, featuring guest speakers from Australia, Turkey, Poland, and Italy. The lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be held every Tuesday and Thursday, at noon, in room 817R of the Cathedral of Learning.

The lectures include:

• Tuesday, September 19

"Biological Homologies and Development"

Giovanni Camardi, University of Catania (Italy)

• Friday, September 22

"Carnap's Tolerance and Logical Pluralism"

Greg Restall, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)

• Tuesday, September 26

"Interactive Construction: Understanding the Processes of Life and Mind"

Karola Stotz, University of Sydney

• Friday, September 29

"Problematization and Games of Truth in Foucault's Historical Ontology"

Ferda Keskin, Bogazici University (Turkey)

• Tuesday, October 3

Topic to be announced

Gereon Walters, University of Konstanz (Poland)

• Friday, October 6

"Heinrich Hertz, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Problem of Life"

Alfred Nordmann, University of South Carolina

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