invitation to Prof. Colin McGinn`s lecture "Two Types of Science" - Monday 26th October

CEU President and Rector John Shattuck and the Department of Philosophy are pleased to invite you to the first event of an important series of lectures and workshops in the week of 26 - 30 October. Leading international academics and public intellectuals comment on a wide range of topics. Event One: Monday 26th October Prof. Colin McGinn - Two Types of Science Time: 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. Venue: CEU Auditorium (Nador u. 9.) (Followed by Q&A and reception.) Chair: Howard Robinson, Provost and Academic Pro-Rector, CEU Colin McGinn is a British philosopher currently working at the University of Miami. McGinn has also held major teaching positions at the Oxford University and Rutgers University. He is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, though he has written on topics across the breadth of modern philosophy. Chief among his works intended for a general audience is the intellectual memoir The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy (2002). Colin’s lecture "Two Types of Science" deals with the nature of our knowledge in the physical and the natural sciences. It argues that the knowledge is different in the two cases, with knowledge of physics being in some respects inferior to knowledge of psychology. Physics is not the epistemological paradigm it is often supposed to be. I also discuss the nature of the knowledge obtained in biology and philosophy.