Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Upcoming SMS Events at the Chicago APA

Thursday, February 19, 5:15-7:15 PM

Group Session: Society for the Metaphysics of Science

Topic: Reduction in the Sciences
Chair: Carl Gillett, Northern Illinois University

Title: "Abstraction and the Shape of Reduction"
Speaker: Colin Klein, University of Illinois, Chicago

Title: "Reductionism Meets Complexity"
Speaker: Robert Bishop, Wheaton College

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Friday, February 20, 5:15-7:15 PM

Group Session: Society for the Metaphysics of Science

Topic: Author Meets Critics: James Ladyman & Don Ross's Every Thing Must Go

Chair: TBA
Critic 1: Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri, Columbia
Critic 2: D. Gene Witmer, University of Florida

Author: Don Ross, University of Alabama at Birmingham & University of Cape Town)


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