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SUMMARY:7th René Descartes Lectures: Philip Kitcher on Progress in Science\, Mathematics\, and Values
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LOCATION:Tilburg University\, Tilburg\, Netherlands\, 5037AB
DESCRIPTION:<p>CfP: 7th Ren&eacute\; Descartes Lectures: Philip Kitcher on Progress in Science\, Mathematics\, and Values</p>\n<p>7th Ren&eacute\; Descartes Lectures&nbsp\;2020</p>\n<p><em>Pragmatic Naturalism: Progress in Science\, Mathematics\, and Values</em></p>\n<p>Professor Philip Kitcher\, Columbia University\, USA</p>\n<p>14-16 October\, 2020</p>\n<p>Tilburg University\, The Netherlands</p>\n<p><a href="https://descarteslectures2020.wordpress.com/">https://descarteslectures2020.wordpress.com/</a></p>\n<p>Every other year\, a distinguished philosopher visits Tilburg University and&nbsp\;the Tilburg Center for Logic\, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)&nbsp\;to present the Ren&eacute\; Descartes Lectures. It is a great pleasure to announce that Professor Philip Kitcher (Columbia University in the City of New York) will deliver the 2020 Descartes lectures on the topic:&nbsp\;<em>Pragmatic Naturalism: Progress in Science\, Mathematics\, and Values</em>.&nbsp\;Professors Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)\, Cheryl Misak (Toronto)\, and James Conant (Chicago/Leipzig) will provide commentaries on each one of Professor Kitcher&rsquo\;s three lectures.</p>\n<p>Concurrently with the lectures\, we will host a workshop on the topic of the lectures. For this workshop\, we invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts (about 500 words) by April 30\, 2020.</p>\n<p>Relevant topics include\, but are not limited to:</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;The nature and possibility of progress in science\, mathematics\, or ethics</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;Theories of progress&mdash\;in particular\, pragmatic and naturalistic theories of progress</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;The normative criteria for individuating improvement (or regress) in science\, mathematics\, or ethics</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;Historical case studies of progress in science\, mathematics or ethics</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;The causes of long-term improvement (or regress) in science\, mathematics\, or ethics</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;Progress and human well-being</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;Progress and realisms</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;The social organization of inquiry and progress/regress</p>\n<p>-&nbsp\;Progress\, diversity\, and disagreement</p>\n<p>Abstracts should be submitted via <a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=descartes20">Easychair</a>. Please submit your abstract in an anonymized form.</p>\n<p>Notifications of acceptance will be made by early June. Members of the Descartes Lectures Program Committee are listed <a href="https://descarteslectures2020.wordpress.com/about-2/">here</a>. All questions about submissions should be directed to the Chair of the Descartes Lectures 2020 Committee\, Dr Matteo Colombo (m.colombo[at]uvt.nl).</p>\n<p>For more information\, including the abstracts of all lectures\, visit our website <a href="https://descarteslectures2020.wordpress.com/.">https://descarteslectures2020.wordpress.com/.</a></p>\n<p>Organizers:</p>\n<p>Matteo Colombo</p>\n<p>Caroline Harnacke</p>\n<p>Georgie Mills</p>\n<p>Sander Verhaegh</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Matteo Colombo;CN=Caroline Harnacke;CN=Sander Verhaegh:
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