Philosophy of Science Colloquium - no seminar on 27th

Philosophy of Science Colloquium Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Room 1.817 (1st floor) Monday 4:00 PM Pazmany P. setany 1/C Budapest, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 http://hps.elte.hu This is just to remind you that there will be no seminar session on 27th February. Instead, we offer the following two lectures at the Central European University: _____________________________________ Elvio Baccarini (University of Rijeka) 'Public Reason and Animal Rights' 27 February 2006 5:00pm, Zrinyi 14, room 412 Abstract: http://www.ceu.hu/phil/Baccarini_Abstract.htm _____________________________________ February 27, 2006, 4 pm, Gellner room, CEU Public lecture: "Einstein and Oppenheimer: Intersections" by S i l v a n S. S c h w e b e r (Professor of Physics and Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas, Brandeis University) Lecture Abstract: The interactions between Einstein and Oppenheimer will be presented. After Einstein's death Oppenheimer was at times highly critical of Einstein in public. Their contrasting views regarding creativity, physics, philosophy, politics, nationalism, and their Jewishness will be analyzed to understand Oppenheimer's stance. _______________________________________________________________ The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest http://hps.elte.hu/leszabo