THE BAR-HILLEL COLLOQUIUM

FOR THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY

OF SCIENCE

 25th ANNUAL SERIES 2005-2006

 

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

 

The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas

Tel Aviv University

 

The Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

1. Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 8.00 pm

Opening Lecture in Memory of Professor Mara Beller

Don Howard, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Revisiting the Bohr-Einstein Dialogue 

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

 

2. Monday, January 2, 2006, 6.00 pm

Béla Kapossy, University of Fribourg and the University of Lausanne

The Open City: Eighteenth-Century Debates on the Political and Economic Integration of Foreigners

Commentator: Snait Gissis, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

 

3. Monday, January 30, 2006, 6.00 pm

Itamar Pitowsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Extended Church-Turing Thesis and Quantum Computation

Commentator: Oron Shagrir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tel Aviv University

 

4. Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 8.00 pm

Juliet Floyd, Boston University

Some Philosophical Questions about Gödel's Completeness Theorem

Commentator: Mark Steiner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

5. Monday, March 20, 2006, 6.00 pm

Tim Maudlin, Rutgers University

Two Problems about Evaporating Black Holes

Commentator: Avshalom Elizur, Bar-Ilan University

Tel Aviv University

 

6. Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 8.00 pm

Giora Hon, University of Haifa

Living Extremely Flat: The Poor Life of John von Neumann's Automaton

Commentator:  Eli Dresner, Tel Aviv University

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

7. Monday, June 5, 2006, 6.00 pm

Margaret Morrison, University of Toronto

Unification Revisited: The Role of Dynamical Principles

Commentator: Orly Shenker, The Open University of Israel

Tel Aviv University

 

8. Mon.-Thurs., June 12-15, 2006

The Origins and Nature of Computation

The Twenty-First Annual International Workshop

on the History and Philosophy of Science 

Details will be announced separately.

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The lectures will take place at:

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute: 43 Jabotinsky Street, Jerusalem

Tel Aviv University: Gilman Building, Hall 496

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Givat Ram Campus, Levy Building, Hall 324

Yemima Ben-Menahem, Academic Director

Shulamit Laron, Director of Public Events

For more information: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, P.O.Box 4070, Jerusalem 91040 Tel: 972-2-5605222, Fax: 972-2-5619293, www.vanleer.org.il

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Founded in collaboration with Robert S. Cohen of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science.

The Colloquium acknowledges the support of The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (Tel Aviv University); The Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and The Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Fund

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