Event Archives: 2011-2012
Documentary Film Screening
Thursday, April 12
Tisch 304, followed by reception with the film-maker
5:30pm
Documentary Film Screening: "WAKE UP DARKNESS"
Prof. George E. Smith Colloquium Series lecture:
"The Question of Mass in Newton's Law of Gravity"
Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Robinson Hall, Rm 253
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Prof. George E. Smith, Tufts University, Department of Philosophy
Title: "The Question of Mass in Newton's Law of Gravity"
Abstract: As is generally known, if only because of the famous 43 arc-seconds
per century discrepancy in the precession of the perihelion Mercury that emerged
in the second half of the nineteenth century, Newton’s law of gravity continued to
be tested, ever more stringently, in research on celestial orbits over the centuries
following publication of his Principia. What is not generally known, however, is that
the feature of Newton’s law that was most contentious at the time when it was put forward
– that gravitational force is proportional to the inertial mass of the attracting body
– was in no way tested by any of that research. How then, if at all, was this claim ever
tested? The talk will review why it was contentious, the history of efforts to test it,
and the verification that it finally received, somewhat inadvertently, at the end of
the nineteenth century.
All are invited! Students encouraged to attend.
Refreshments
will be served @ 2:30 in Robinson 251 (Knipp Library)
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Spring 2012 Lecture Series
Thursday, January 26
Eaton Hall, Room 206
4:00-6:00pm
Derrick Darby
"How Not to Attack Luck Egalitarianism"
Friday, March 9
Miner Hall, Room 225
3:30-5:30pm
Tamar Schapiro
"Inclinations as Incomplete Motives"
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Miner Hall, Room 225
12:00-1:30pm
Sandra Laugier
"The Ethics of Care as a Politics of the Ordinary"
Friday, April 27
Miner Hall, Room 225
3:30-5:30pm
Sarah Moss
"Credal Dilemmas"
Fall 2011 Lecture Series
All lectures located in Miner Hall, Room 224 @ 3:30-5:30pm, unless otherwise stated.
Friday, October 14
Neil Sinhababu
"Emotional Perception of Morality"
Friday, October 28
Louise Antony
"The Openness of Illusions"
Friday, November 4
Robert Audi
"Prospects for a Naturalized Intuitionism"
Friday, November 18
Sarah-Jane Leslie
"Generics and Generalization"
Miner Hall, Room 112
2:00-4:00pm
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