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Polanyi Lecture: Janet Browne (Harvard)

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fed Ex Global 301 Pittsboro Street , Chapel Hill , NC

Join us on Tuesday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the Mandela Auditorium of FedEx Global Center for the Michael Polanyi Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Janet Browne (Harvard), … Read more

Speaker Series: Nina Emery (Brown University)

213 Caldwell Hall

The inaugural 2017 Balter Distinguished Lecture will welcome Nina Emery to present a paper as part of our annual Speaker Series. Title: Laws and their instances Abstract: I present an argument for the view that laws ground their instances. I … Read more

Speaker Series: Hartry Field (NYU)

213 Caldwell Hall

“Epistemology from an Evaluativist Perspective” Abstract: I’ll articulate a kind of “evaluativist” (“non-descriptivist”?) view of epistemology, and contrast it with both normative realist views and reliabilist views.  Much of the focus will be on how this metaphilosophical perspective can affect ground-level … Read more

Speaker Series: Michael Pelczar (University of Singapore)

213 Caldwell Hall

"Phenomenalism Redux" Abstract: Everyone knows about the mind-body problem. Less well-known is the fact that philosophers originally took it to be a problem about the nature of body, rather than a problem about the nature of mind. This paper returns … Read more