*Apologies if you have already received this message* Dear All,
As you may know, Professor Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona) will be giving a talk at the Moral Sciences Club tomorrow entitled 'Revisiting Russell on the Notion of Cause'. The meeting will be held at 5.15pm in the Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College. An abstract is attached below. If you would like to join Jenann for dinner after the talk at La Margherita, then please let me know by 12 noon tomorrow (Tuesday). Regards, Dan ABSTRACT The eclipsing of causal notions in physics happened almost unnoticed until Russell's justly famous lecture "On the Notion of Cause". In that lecture he detailed the differences between causal notions and the fundamental laws with which the new mathematical physics had replaced them and argued that the notion of cause should be eliminated as a folk concept that has no place in a mature science. There is much that Russell got right in that lecture and the paper that followed. With less than a month before Huw Price will be marking its centenary with his own inaugural lecture as Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, I thought I might take the occasion to discuss something that I believe Russell got wrong. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
