Edelstein Center

For the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine

Upcoming events in Edelstein Center:

2016-2017 Bar-Hillel Colloquium

Recent Events in Edelstein Center

4-5.9.2016 Philosophy of Science and its Relevance to Science

29-30.8.2016 Logic, Meaning and Language.

9.6.2016 Annual Graduate Students Conference. The Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

21.6.2016 In the Footsteps of Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915): The Past, Present and Future of Targeted Drug Therapy.

5.6.2016 "Observation and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" A Symposium to celebrate the publication of Raz Chen-Morris' Measuring Shadows : Kepler's Optics of Invisibility.

30.5-2.6.2016 Information & Information Processing and their Role in Science: Physics, Biology and Cognitive & Brain Sciences.

25.5.2016 Christian List, London School of Economics- Objective Chance as an Emergent Phenomenon

19-20.5.2016 Probabilities in Science and Philosophy- The First Jerusalem-MCMP Workshop in the Philosophy of Science

18.5.2016 Alan Nelson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill- Descartes' Anti-Mathematicism

12.4.2016 Hilary Putnam Memorial

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4-7.4.2016 George Berkeley in Jerusalem

6.4.2016 Bar Hillel Colloquium: MiKlos Redei- Why Bertrand's Paradox is Not Paradoxical but it Felt So

30.3.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Thomas Polzler- Can the Empirical Sciences Contribute to the Moral Realism\Anti-Realism Debate?

23.3.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Efraim Wallach- What is Explained by the "Niche Construction Theory"?

16.3.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Shaul Katzir- The Invention of the Quartz Clock: Measurements, Standards and Telecommunication.

9.3.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Yona Siderer- The Evolution of Chemistry Language in Mid-19th Century Japan

7.3.2016 The Tibbons- A Workshop

2.3.2016 The Annual Memorial Itamar Pitowsky Lecture. Hue Price- Time's Arrow and Eddington's Challenge.

24.2.2016 The Annual Memorial Mara Beller Lecture. Kostas Gavroglu- A Question in Need of an Answer: How Can the Phenomenal Publishing Success of Kuhn's Structure be Understood?

27.1.2016 The Ada Lovelace Bicentenary Lectures on Computability

13.1.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Marc Hight- Berkeley's Metaphysical Instrumentalism.

30.12.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Jack Woods- Modest Inferentialism for Classic Logic.

16.12.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Richard Bradley- Ellsberg's Paradox and the Value of Chances.

18.11.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Laurie Paul- The Persisting Self in Time.

2.11.2015 Bar Hillel Colloquium: Noam Chomsky- Problems and Mysteries Revisited.

28.10.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Edward Larson- Science, Religion and Eugenics in Historical Perspective.

21.10.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Jill North- The Structure of Spacetime: a New Approach to the Spacetime Ontology Debate.

14-15.10.2105 Space, Time and Spacetime.

Last update: 21.8.2016

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