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Philosophy: Problems, Aims Responsibilities

'Philosophy: Problems, Aims Responsibilities', New Mathematics Building, University of Warwick, 16 September to 18 September 2004

The conference marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Karl Popper and also the 70th anniversary of the publication (in the autumn of 1934) of his greatest book, Logik der Forschung.



SPEAKERS


Mariano Artigas (University of Navarre)


Science and Creativity in the Philosophy of Karl Popper


Richard Bailey (Canterbury Christ Church University College)


Education and the Extended Mind: Popper, the Third World and the Human Cognitive Revolution


Alain Boyer (University of Paris IV (Sorbonne))


Is an Open Society a Just Society? Popper and Rawls


Ot?vio Bueno (University of South Carolina)


Realism and Truth in The Logic of Scientific Discovery


Edgar Morscher (University of Salzburg)


World 3, Truth, and Logic


Meera Nanda


'Tolerance' as a Source of Ignorance in India: How
Postmodernism Aids the Hindu Orthodoxy




SYMPOSIUM


Nick Mann (University of Warwick)


John Allen (Lund Universty), and Douglas Kell (UMIST)


Data Mining and Fishing Trips in the Empirical Sciences


It is intended to hold the Symposium on Data Mining before lunch on Friday September 17th. Professor Artigas will give his lecture after lunch on that day.
For further information contact:

David Miller, Dept of Philosophy. Ext: 24543/23421 or email: d.w.miller@warwick.ac.uk


Alternatively visit: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/staff/miller/phpar/