Dear colleagues, This year's Tarner Lectures will begin today Tuesday at 5.00.
They will be given by Professor Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin). (go to: http://sober.philosophy.wisc.edu) The Lectures are entitled: Solving Problems in the Philosophy of Science by using (some simple ideas about) Probability The Lectures will be on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, in the late afternoons, this week and next week: as follows: 1. Tuesday 29 October, at 5.00 pm: The Problem of Induction 2. Wednesday 30 October, at 5.00 pm: Ockham's Razor 3. Tuesday 5 November, at 4.00 pm: Realism, Empiricism, and Instrumentalism 4. Wednesday 6 November, at 5.00 pm: Values in Science The venue for all the Lectures is the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. This is approached from Whewell's Court, which is opposite the cobbles at Great Gate, Trinity Street (so on the same side as Heffers bookshop) Please note the early start, at 4.00 pm, for the third lecture. John Marenbon and Jeremy Butterfield Trinity College, Cambridge ------ Jeremy Butterfield: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ: Tel: 07557-668413 (mobile) _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.