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ARTHUR
FINE, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, TO
GIVE PUBLIC LECTURE
5/6/99
Contact: Donald Borchert, (740) 593-4590
ATHENS,
Ohio -- The Sixth Annual Ohio University Philosophy Forum
will feature distinguished philosophers from Harvard
University, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and University
College in London.
The Forum
will be May 13 to May 16 with guest of honor Arthur Fine,
John Evans Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern
University,
giving a lecture on "Relativism and the Practice of Science"
in Anderson Auditorium in Scripps Hall at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 13. The lecture is free and open to the
public.
"The
benefactor who established the philosophy forum had as his
intention to bring to campus a distinguished
philosopher/author
who would present his or her work in a public lecture and
then meet with philosophy faculty and graduate students to
discuss the scholars's work in detail," said Donald
Borchert, chair of the Philosophy
Department.
Other
philosophers participating in the forum include Mara Beller,
Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Nancy Cartwright,
London School
of Economics; John Earman, University of Pittsburgh; Peter
Galison, Harvard University; Ronald Giere, University of
Minnesota; Paul Horwich, University College in London;
Elisabeth Lloyd, Indiana University; and Richard Rorty and
Patrick Suppes, both of Stanford University.
Subjects
to be addressed will include time travel and realism in
science.
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