Ernest Nagel and the Making of Philosophy of Science as a Profession

Our research group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on

Date of the event: 4th of October, 2019.
Venue of the event: 1097 Budapest, 4. Toth Kalman st., 7th floor

Programme:

09:00-09:50: Sander Verhaegh: Ernest Nagel and the Reception of Logical Positivism in the United States

09:50-10:40: Lucas Baccarat: Neurath's and Nagel's Criticism of Semantics

10:40-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-11:50: Raphael van Riel: Nagel on Idealization in Nature

11:50-12:40: Bohang Chen: On Nagel on Teleology in Biology

12:40-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-14:50: Jeanna Peijnenburg and David Atkinson: Putting the Cart before the Horse: Nagel's Criticism of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

14:50-15:40: Marij van Strien: Determinism as a Guiding Principle

15:40-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-16:50: Maria Carla Galavotti: On Nagel's 'Truth-Frequency' Interpretation of Probability

16:50-17:40: Fons Dewulf: Nagel Teaching Aristotle and Philosophy of Science

17:40-18:00: Coffee break

18:00-18:50: Matthias Neuber: Nagel's Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Organizers:

Matthias Neuber & Adam Tamas Tuboly