Lewis Department of Humanities

Colloquium Schedule

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January 25	Brandon Fogel Sawyier Fellow, IIT	Epistemology of a Theory of Everything (2:30 p.m.)
February 8	Michael Davis Humanities/CSEP, IIT	Punishment Theory’s Golden Half Century
February 22	Joseph Phillips Computer Science De Paul University	Scilog and Scienceomatic: Programming Languages for Scientific Representation, Reasoning, Visualization and Discovery
March 14	David Zesmer Emeritus Professor of English, IIT	“For God's sake let us sit upon the ground/And tell sad stories of the death of kings”: The tragedy of Richard II
April 4	Harvey Brown Perimeter Institute and Philosophy, Oxford University	Boltzmann and the Origins of Statistical Mechanics Spring 2008 Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society McCloska Auditorium, MTCC, 2:30 p.m.
April 11	Ed Jurkowitz Humanities, IIT	Planck’s Unification of Physics through Principles
April 25	Soazig le Bihan Sawyier Fellow, IIT	Defending the Semantic View: What it Takes
May 9	Julio Tuma University of Chicago	Does an Ethics of Science Need Scientists?

All colloquiua except the Sawyier Lecture will take place in the conference room in 218 Siegel Hall, and will begin at 2:00 p.m., unless otherwise announced.