The Philosophy Department of
Central European University
and
The Hungarian Philosophical Association
cordially invite you
to a public lecture by
Professor James Lennox
(University of Pittsburgh)
Getting a Science Going:
Aristotle on Entry Level Kinds
3. June, 2004 at 4 pm
The lecture will be held in Room 412 of the CEU Building at
Budapest V., Zrínyi utca 14
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JAMES LENNOX is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Director, Center for
Philosophy of Science (Adjunct Professor in Philosophy and Classics), University of
Pittsburgh. Research specialties include Ancient Greek philosophy, science and medicine
and the history and philosophy of evolutionary theory. Professor Lennox has published
essays on the philosophical and scientific thought of Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus,
Boyle, Spinoza, and Darwin, especially focused on scientific explanation, and particularly
teleological explanation, in the biological sciences. He is author of Aristotle's
Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science (Cambridge, 2000), a volume
in Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology, and Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals
I-IV (Oxford, 2001), an introduction, translation and Commentary of De Partibus Animalium
for the Clarendon Aristotle Series. He is co-editor of Philosophical Issues in
Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge 1987); Self-Motion from Aristotle to Newton (Princeton
1995); and Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences (Pittsburgh
1995).
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
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