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Historical echoes, part 3
09/04/26
This is the third part of William Leue's history of the UAlbany Philosophy Department. For context, see part I and part II.
Leue mentions offhand that the philosopher of science John Winnie got his undergrad degree from UAlbany. For some reason, I like this bit of trivia.
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Historical echoes, part 2
09/04/25
This is the second part of William Leue's history of the UAlbany Philosophy Department. For context, see part I.
This installment is from Phib v 1 (1972-1973), n 13, pp 55-6.
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THE HISTORY OF OUR DEPARTMENT (II)
Late in February of 1961 I took the Santa Fe from de -
Historical echoes, part 1
09/04/24
A few weeks ago, I posted about back issues of the department bulletin which I discovered while moving furniture into a department storeroom. In them, William Leue wrote a series of articles on the history of the SUNY Albany Philosophy Department. The articles are of interest to me personally, as a -
Further indeterminate fallout
09/04/12
Thinking more about indistinguishable spacetimes has led me to think about the contrast between underdetermination and indeterminacy. Somehow, I wrote a dissertation on the former without clearly thinking through the latter.
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In a discussion note that he wrote for the workshop but di -
Fallout from Pittsburgh
09/04/09
A few weeks ago, I participated in a workshop on underdetermination at the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science. The conference was fabulous, both socially and intellectually. Here's a post growing out of that, specifically about John Manchak's work on global features of spacetime.<
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