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Date: February 13th, 2009
Kenneth Waters (University of Minnesota) will be joining the CSUN community and the Student Philosophy Society for one night only to give a lecture concerning Chance and Contingency in Evolutionary History.
| Date: | Friday, February 13, 2009
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| Time: | 4pm – 5pm
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| Place: | Grand Salon, University Student Union |
This lecture is part of CSUN’s celebration of Darwin Week. Between February 8-14, CSUN will commemorate Darwin’s contributions to our understanding of the world and kick off “The Year in Science” with a full week of stimulating events and festivities.
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Date: February 13th, 2009
In her second lecture, Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut) will be joining the CSUN community and the Student Philosophy Society for one night only to give a lecture concerning Natural Selection and Consciously Reasoned Human Behaviors.
| Date: | Friday, February 13, 2009
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| Time: | 3pm – 4pm
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| Place: | Grand Salon, University Student Union |
Abstract:
The tangle of biological purposes that is us
From our genes to our public languages, a half dozen entwined levels of selection cooperate, but sometimes also conflict, each supporting a different level of purposes. Our own purposes, purposes of the individual, emerge from this tangle, sometimes triumphantly, sometimes conflictingly. Along the way the question how forward-looking goals emerge from natural selection is addressed, and also goals that do not aid survival.
Some of Dr. Millikan’s other areas of expertise include:
- Philosophy of Mind and of Psychology
- Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics
- Philosophy of Biology
- Ontology
- Natural Epistemology
This lecture is hosted by the Student Philosophy Society and corresponds with CSUN’s celebration of Darwin Week. Between February 8-14, CSUN will commemorate Darwin’s contributions to our understanding of the world and kick off “The Year in Science” with a full week of stimulating events and festivities.
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