ELFT HÍRADÓ

["Laszlo E. Szabo" <leszabo AT hps.elte.hu>]

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
HUMANITIES CENTER

cordially invites you to a public lecture:

SCEPTICAL ARGUMENTS IN HUME AND WITTGENSTEIN

M a r k   S t e i n e r
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Chair:
Howard Robinson (Philosophy, CEU)

5:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 13
CEU, Nador u. 9, Popper Room

Reception to follow

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Prof. Steiner;’s areas of research are philosophy of mathematics,
philosophy of science, Wittgenstein, Hume. He has published the books:
Mathematical Knowledge. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, His
recent articles include .
The Application of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998. And articles
Wittgenstein: Mathematics, Regularities, Rules." In Benacerraf and His
Critics, edited by Adam Morton and Stephen P. Stich, 190-212. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1996.
"Frege, the Natural Numbers, and Natural Kinds." In Between Logic and
Intuition: Essays in Honor of Charles Parsons, edited by Gila Sher and
Richard Tieszen, 291-298. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
"Penrose and Platonism." In The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, edited
by Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger, 133-141. Dordrecht and Boston:
Kluwer, 2000.

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For Professor Steiner's Monday lecture on mathematics see:
http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/October#2


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L a s z l o   E.   S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://hps.elte.hu/leszabo