Event Date:
Friday, February 18, 2005 - 12:00am
Conference
The second Steven Humphrey Excellence in Philosophy Conference took place from February 18–21, 2005, at UCSB.
Invited Speakers
- Keynote Speaker: Sir Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), “The Most Important Issues in the Philosophy of Science”
- Jeremy Butterfield (University of Oxford), “Relationalism and the Rigid Body: Counting Possibilities in Classical Mechanics”
- Arthur Fine (University of Washington), “Philosophical Attachments to Science”
- Michael Friedman (Stanford University), “Incommensurability”
- Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University), “TBA”
- Adolf Grunbaum (University of Pittsburgh), “Why is There Something, Rather Than Nothing? An Ill-Conceived Question Whose Theistic Answer Fails”
- Lawrence Sklar (University of Michigan), “How Theories Work”
- Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin), “Evolutionary Theory and the Reality of Macro Probabilities”
- Paul Teller (University of California, Davis), “De-idealizing Truth”
Commentators
- Tony Anderson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Branden Fitelson (University of California, Berkeley)
- Geoffrey Hellman (University of Minnesota)
- Steven Humphrey (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Michael Rescorla (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Alex Rosenberg (Duke University)
- Sheldon Smith (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Paul Teller (University of California, Davis)
July 11, 2016 - 12:07pm