Information about Reichenbach's life and work is available at: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/r/reichenb.htm

The 2008 Reichenbach Lecture

Mark Wilson
Professor of Philosophy,
  University of Pittsburgh

“From the Bending of Beams to the Problem of Free Will”

May 30 , 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Dodd Hall 175

Reception to follow

Previous Lectures

Peter Godfrey-Smith
“Progress and Procedures in Scientific Philosophy ”
2007

Brian Skyrms
"Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Convention"
2006

Alan Richardson
"One Hundred Years of Scientific Philosophy:
Hans Reichenbach and the Significance of Logical Empiricism"
2005

Charles Parsons
"The Problem of Absolute Universality"
2004

Michael Friedman
"Scientific Philosophy and the Dynamics of Reason"
2002

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Kit Fine
"The Question of Realism"
2000

Hans Kamp
"Deixis in Discourse: Reichenbach on Temporal Reference"
1999

Hilary Putnam
"Mental Causation"
1998

Patrick Suppes
"Freedom, Determinism, and Biological Computation"
1997

John Earman
"Common Causes and the Horizon Problem"
1996

The aim of the lecture series is to further the general lines of research to which Hans Reichenbach made such important contributions, and to honor those contributions.