M. Steiner: Hume & Wittgenstein, Wednesday, CEU

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY HUMANITIES CENTER cordially invites you to a public lecture: SCEPTICAL ARGUMENTS IN HUME AND WITTGENSTEIN M a r k S t e i n e r The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Howard Robinson (Philosophy, CEU) 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 13 CEU, Nador u. 9, Popper Room Reception to follow _____________ Prof. Steiner;’s areas of research are philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, Wittgenstein, Hume. He has published the books: Mathematical Knowledge. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, His recent articles include . The Application of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998. And articles Wittgenstein: Mathematics, Regularities, Rules." In Benacerraf and His Critics, edited by Adam Morton and Stephen P. Stich, 190-212. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. "Frege, the Natural Numbers, and Natural Kinds." In Between Logic and Intuition: Essays in Honor of Charles Parsons, edited by Gila Sher and Richard Tieszen, 291-298. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. "Penrose and Platonism." In The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, edited by Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger, 133-141. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 2000. ___________________ For Professor Steiner's Monday lecture on mathematics see: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/October#2 -- 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