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科学哲学科学史研究室創立10周年記念シンポジウム
力学と数学
―歴史的視点から―
現代科学における一元性の基盤ともなっている数学による自然現象の記述について歴史的視点から考察する.近代西洋科学のモデルとなった古典力学の発展は数学とりわけ微分積分学の発展と密接な関係にあったが,両者の関係は時代によって異なる様相を呈しており,物理理論が数学理論の発展を促す一方,数学的表現が物理理論や物理概念を規定することもみられた.本シンポジウムでは,17世紀の古典力学の誕生から,古典力学の解析化,解析力学の形成,量子力学の誕生までを辿りつつ,力学と数学の関係を歴史的な文脈に即して検討する.
日時:2003年9月3日(水)午後1時30分─5時30分
場所:京都大学文学部新館2階第7講義室
報告
1:落下法則ー古典力学の誕生と数学
伊藤和行(京都大学文学研究科助教授,科学史)
2:古典力学の解析化について
中田良一(金蘭短期大学教授,物理学史)
3:解析力学の形成における数学
中根美知代(成城大学・立教大学講師,数学史)
4:量子力学の誕生と数学
仲滋文(日本大学理工学部教授,物理学)
日時:9月5日(金)午後4:00−6:00
会場:京都大学文学部東館4階COE研究室
Externalism: a simple model of Normativity
Contemporary Philosophy of Thought (1999) などで知られるMichael Luntley教授(Warwick University)の講演会が上記の要領で開催されました。
本研究会は10月上旬にD. H. Mellor教授(ケンブリッジ大学)を招聘し、以下の3回の講演会を開催しました。
日時:10月2日(木)午後3:00-
会場:京都大学文学部東館4階COE研究室
David Hugh Mellor (Cambridge University)
How many universes?
In this talk I discuss the so-called 'anthropic' argument for the idea that our universe is only one of many: the so-called 'multiverse' hypothesis. This argument starts from the fact that only a very small proportion of logically possible laws of nature, fundamental constants and initial conditions permit the evolution of intelligent life. It infers from this that the fact that our universe has such laws, constants and initial conditions needs explaining. It then argues that the only way to explain this fact is to suppose that our universe is one of many, and that the multiverse hypothesis is to be preferred for this reason. I think this conclusion is mistaken, and that, while there may be other, scientific, reasons for accepting a multiverse hypothesis, the anthropic argument for it should be rejected.
日時:10月3日(金)午後3:00-
会場:京都大学地球環境学堂三才学林
David Hugh Mellor (Cambridge University)
The time of our lives
The most important distinction in the philosophy of time is that between two different but closely related ways of saying when events happen: the so-called A- and B-series. The A-series of events says how much earlier or later they are than the present; the B-series says how much earlier or later they are than each other. Many important issues in the metaphysics of time can be put as questions about the reality and significance of these two series. This however has given rise to a false dichotomy, as if accepting one of these series means rejecting the other one, which is not so. They have different roles: the B-series represents how time is in itself, while the A-series provides an indispensable way of thinking about events in time. In this talk I give a sketch of how work in several areas of philosophy has enabled debates about time to progress on the basis of this distinction. I also use this discussion to rebut a commonly drawn contrast between progress in science and the alleged lack of it in philosophy.
日時:10月10日(金)午後3:00-
会場:京都大学文学部新館第2講義室
David Hugh Mellor (Cambridge University)
Chance
なお、10月11日(土)には非公式にメラー教授を囲む会が開催されました。
日時:11月3日(月)午前11:00-午後1:00
会場:京都大学文学部東館4階COE研究室
Brian Massumi (Communication Department of the Universite de Montreal)
Thinking-Feeling, Forms of Life
Brian Massumi is a leading international figure in cultural studies as well as literary and new media theory, and one of the most creative scholars working at those boundaries. He holds a B.A. from Brown University in French, English, and Chinese and a Ph.D. from Yale in French. He has translated major theoretical texts-Deleuze/Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, de Certeau's Heterologies: Discourse on the Other, Deleuze/Guattari's Nomadology: The War Machine, Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music, Lyotard's Postmodern Condition with G. Bennington, and more. He is the author of a major work on Deleuze: A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1992), now on its third printing and forthcoming in Japanese; co-author of First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (NY: Semiotexte/ Autonomedia, 1992), editor of The Politics of Everyday Fear (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), and has several books under contract. He is the founding editor of an important Minnesota book series- Theory Out of Bounds- and the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. And he is a major figure in the remapping of boundaries between the Humanities and the Sciences: his work rethinks the vexed distance that has existed between them and once again brings them face to face.
日時:11月20日(木)午後4:00−6:00
会場:京都大学文学部東館4階COE研究室
Vladimir Sotirov (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Calculemus! A Realization of Leibniz's Programme
論文はあらかじめウェブ上で閲覧できます。
<http://www.math.bas.bg/logic/vlsot/>をご覧下さい。
日時:12月14日(日)午後2時−
会場:京都大学文学部東館4階COE研究室
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