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In semiconductors, such large gradients lead to very strong phonon drag effects, which … 12 Nov 2013 10:45 - 11:35 Series Karl Bühler, language thinker Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge Symposium On the occasion of the recent publication of the French translation of Bühler's Sprachtheorie (1934) - la Théorie du langage. La fonction représentationnelle , edited by Janette Friedrich and Didier Samain, Agone, January 2009 [1] -, the Chair of … 29 Apr 2009 → 30 Apr 2009 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 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 Monika Zin Gérard Fussman, chair History of the Indian world Guest lecturer 29 Apr 2009 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 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 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 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 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 Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (11) Lecture 18 Dec 2013 15:00 - 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 - 19:00 Event Henry Laurens Arab political culture (6) Seminar 18 Dec 2013 11:30 - 13:00 Event Sanjay Subrahmanyam Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history (2) Lecture 9 Dec 2013 10:00 - 11:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 644 Page 645 Page 646 Page 647 Current page 648 Page 649 Page 650 Page 651 Page 652 … Next page Last page
Event Charlène Bouchaud The contribution of archaeobotany to the study of trade relations (2) Seminar 12 Nov 2013 11:30 - 12:00
Series Rumors and conspiracy theories in civil wars Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences Symposium Symposium organized by Jon Elster and Henry Laurens. … 18 Jun 2009 → 19 Jun 2009
Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (2) Lecture 13 Nov 2013 16:00 - 17:00
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
Series Karl Bühler, language thinker Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge Symposium On the occasion of the recent publication of the French translation of Bühler's Sprachtheorie (1934) - la Théorie du langage. La fonction représentationnelle , edited by Janette Friedrich and Didier Samain, Agone, January 2009 [1] -, the Chair of … 29 Apr 2009 → 30 Apr 2009
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 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
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 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 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 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 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
Event Henry Laurens The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (11) Lecture 18 Dec 2013 15:00 - 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 - 19:00
Event Sanjay Subrahmanyam Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history (2) Lecture 9 Dec 2013 10:00 - 11:00