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Helen Steward (Leeds) : 'Helping it'

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Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
January 15, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Helen's research interests lie mainly in the the philosophy of action, the philosophy of mind, and in the metaphysical and ontological issues which bear on these areas (e.g. causation, supervenience, levels of explanation, the event/state distinction).

Barry Loewer (Rutgers) : "What Gives Direction to Time?"

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Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
May 8, 2012 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Time seems to have a direction. As Omar Khyayam wrote

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

What gives direction to time? I clarify this question and discuss some proposed answers.

 

Science Fiction and Philosophy Reading Group

Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
411
Date: 
March 5, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

We meet weekly to discuss one or two short stories from the science fiction genre, exploring and responding to the ideas found in the story.  The stories we read are literary, contemporary, and short.

This week we will be reading a story with spaceships and aliens.  In "Ambassador" (12 pages), Hugo-winning author and marine biologist Peter Watts speculates about the results of survival of the fittest on an intergalactic scale.

Philm Club Series

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Type: 
Film Screening
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
March 2, 2012 - 5:30pm to 8:00pm

The Philm Club cordially invites you to this week's film screening:

Brazil (1985)
dir. Terry Gilliam
140 minutes

Friday, March 2.
The screening will start at 17:30 -- not 18:00.

Science Fiction and Philosophy Reading Group

Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
411
Date: 
February 27, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

We meet weekly to discuss one or two short stories from the science fiction genre, exploring and responding to the ideas found in the story.  The stories we read are literary, contemporary, and short.

This week's reading is:

"Fragments of a Painted Eggshell" by Alexander Jablokov

(first appeared in Asimov's, 1995)

http://www.ajablokov.com/fragments-of-a-painted-eggshel/

Philm Club Series: Black Narcissus (1947)

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Type: 
Film Screening
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
February 17, 2012 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

The Philm Club cordially invites you to the following film screening:

Black Narcissus (1947)
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
100 min

Feb 17 Friday, at 18.00
Zrinyi 14, Room 412

Alfred Nordmann (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt): How to express things in works - Envisioning Wittgenstein's Tractatus Technico-Philosophicus

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Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
October 2, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Speaker: 
Alfred Nordmann

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Science Fiction and Philosophy Reading Group

Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
411
Date: 
February 20, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

We meet weekly to discuss one or two short stories from the science fiction genre, exploring and responding to the ideas found in the story.  The stories we read are literary, contemporary, and short.

This week's reading is:

"Moon Dogs" by Michael Swanwick
Is fear a disease?  Can you be inoculated against it?  Can you be cured of it?  The esoteric and award-winning author Michael Swanwick raises these questions in a post-apocalyptic tale featuring robotic hunting dogs and therapeutic death simulations.

Science Fiction and Philosophy Reading Group

Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
411
Date: 
February 13, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

We meet weekly to discuss one or two short stories from the science fiction genre, exploring and responding to the ideas found in the story.  The stories we read are literary, contemporary, and short.

Science Fiction and Philosophy Reading Group

Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
411
Date: 
February 6, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 

The reading group will meet weekly to discuss one or two short stories from the science fiction genre, exploring and responding to the ideas found in the story.  The stories we read are literary, contemporary, and short.