Upcoming Events

Professor Sahotra Sarkar

Departments of Philosophy and Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin

Workshop Lecture:

"Heredity before Genetics: The Significance of the Environment"

Thursday, April 30th, 2:30PM White Water Room

12th Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference: "The Environment"

Held at the University of Idaho and Washington State University

Friday, May 1st–3rd. For more details, please consult the INPC website.

Previous Events

Professor Ned Hall

Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Two Lectures:

Thursday, November 13th at 7:30PM, Albertson 101:

"Why Intelligent Design Should Be Taught in the Schools (and How)"

Friday, November 14th at 3:30PM, The Clearwater Room:

"Rational Biases in Science, and their Proper Managemen"

Ned Hall works mainly on metaphysics and philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on philosophical problems associated with the foundations of quantum physics. In the philosophy of physics, his current research focuses on disentangling the various problems associated with the quantum mechanical treatment of measurement, and on elucidating the implications of and conceptual basis for the usual quantum mechanical description of systems containing identical particles. His current interests in the philosophy of science center on the analysis of natural laws and their role within scientific theories. His other work has included investigations into the connections between probability theory and the logic of conditionals, the epistemology and metaphysics of objective probability, and the analysis of causation. He recently edited (with John Collins and L. A. Paul), Causation and Counterfactuals.