Tarner Lectures
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The Tarner lectures are a series of public lectures in the philosophy of science given at Trinity College, Cambridge since 1916. Named after Mr Edward Tarner, the lecture addresses 'the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Relations or Want of Relations between the different Departments of Knowledge.' The inaugural lecture was given by Alfred North Whitehead in the autumn of 1919 and are published as his "The concept of nature."
Past Lectures
Full list of Past Tarner Lectures {{cite web | title=Past Tarner Lectures | website=Trinity College Cambridge | url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/about/public-lecture-series/tarner/ | access-date=2019-09-28}}
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| Year | Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | Dr Alfred North Whitehead | The Concept of Nature |
| 1923 | Dr C. D. Broad | The border-line between physics and psychology |
| 1926 | Hon. Bertrand Russell | The analysis of matter |
| 1929 | Professor G.E. Moore | Knowledge direct and indirect{{cite journal | date=1995 | editor-first=A. | editor-last=Roser | editor2-first=F. | editor2-last=Börnke | url=http://sammelpunkt.philo.at/444/ | title=The papers of George Edward Moore (1873–1958) Cambridge University Library | last=Cann | first=Kathleen | journal=Wittgenstein Studien | volume=2 | pages=13/41 | language=en}} |
| 1931 | Revd F. R. Tennant | The relations between the different departments of knowledge |
| 1935 | Mr A.D. Ritchie | The natural history of mind |
| 1938 | Sir Arthur Eddington | The philosophy of physical science |
| 1941 | Dr Cecil Alec Mace | Causality and mind |
| 1946 | Professor R. B. Braithwaite | Laws of nature, probability, and scientific explanation |
| 1947 | Sir Edmund Whittaker | The concepts of physics |
| 1949 | Professor Joseph Henry Woodger | Biology and language |
| 1953 | Professor Gilbert Ryle | Cross purposes between theories |
| 1956 | Professor Erwin Schrödinger (read by Professor J. Wisdom){{Cite book |last=Moore |first=Walter |title=A Life of Erwin Schrödinger |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1994 |isbn=0-521-46934-1 |location=Cambridge |page=330 |language=en}} | The physical basis of consciousness |
| 1960 | Professor Carl Pantin | The A sciences and the B sciences |
| 1962 | Mr H.A.C. Dobbs | The concept of time |
| 1965 | Professor Hermann Bondi | Assumption and myth in physical theory |
| 1967 | Professor Georg Henrik von Wright | Time, Change and Contradiction |
| 1970 | Dr Gerd Buchdahl | Science and rational structures{{cite web | access-date=2019-09-28 | at=Box 25 # 48d | url=https://www.whipplelib.hps.cam.ac.uk/special/overview/buchdahl-collection | title=Gerd Buchdahl Collection | language=en | website=Whipple Library}} |
| 1975 | Professor William Kneale | Grammar, logic, and arithmetic |
| 1978 | Professor Max Black{{cite encyclopedia | access-date=2019-09-28 | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/historians-and-chronicles/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/max-black | title=Black, Max (1909–1988) | encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Philosophy | last=Garver | first=Newton | via=Encyclopedia.com}} | Models of rationality |
| 1982 | Professor E. O. Wilson | Socio-biology and comparative social theory |
| 1985 | Professor Freeman Dyson | Origins of life |
| 1988 | Sir Andrew Huxley | Matter, life, evolution |
| 1991 | Professor Ian Hacking | Kinds of people and kinds of things |
| 1994 | Professor Michael Redhead | From physics to metaphysics |
| 1996 | Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick | Constructing geohistory in the age of revolution |
| 2000 | Professor Simon Conway Morris | Footsteps to eternity: the implications of evolution |
| 2006 | Professor Peter Galison | Images, Objects, and the Scientific Self |
| 2010 | Professor Simon Schaffer | When the stars threw down their spears: Histories of Astronomy and Empire |
| 2012 | Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd | The ideals of inquiry: an ancient history |
| 2019 | Professor Elliott Sober | Solving Problems in the Philosophy of Science by using (some simple ideas about) Probability |
See also
References
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Bibliography/Further Reading
- {{cite book | title=The Concept of Nature | first=Alfred North |last=Whitehead | via=Project Gutenberg | date=November 1919 | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18835 | access-date=2019-09-28}}
- {{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/minditsplaceinna00broa | title=Mind and its place in nature | publisher=Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc. | date=1925 | last=Broad | first=C. D.|via=Internet Archive}}
- {{cite book | first1=Bertrand | last1=Russell | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221533 | title=The Analysis Of Matter | date=1927 | via=Internet Archive}}
- {{cite book | last=Tennant | first=Frederick Robert | title=Philosophy of the sciences : or the relations between the departments of knowledge | publisher=University Press | year=1932 | oclc=3947993 | hdl = 2027/uc1.$b121150}}
- {{cite book | hdl=2027/uc1.b4087816 | title=The natural history of mind | publisher=Longmans, Green and co | date=1936 | last=Ritchie | first=Arthur David}}
- {{cite book | hdl=2027/mdp.39015015937769 | title=The philosophy of physical science | date=1939 | last=Eddington | first=Arthur Stanley| publisher=New York }}
- {{cite journal | title=Symposium: Causal Laws in Psychology | date=1949 | last1=Farrell | first1=B. A. | last2=Braithwaite | first2=Margaret | doi=10.1093/aristoteliansupp/23.1.31 | jstor=4106505 | last3=Mace | first3=C. A. | journal=Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes | volume=23 | pages=31–68 | issn=0309-7013}}
- {{cite book | last=Braithwaite|first=Richard Bevan|title=Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hxo7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR9|year=1953|publisher=CUP Archive|page=9}}
- {{cite book|last=Whittaker|first=Edmund Taylor|title=From Euclid to Eddington: A Study of Conceptions of the External World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnI3AAAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=CUP Archive}}
- {{cite book|last=Woodger|first=Joseph Henry|title=Biology and Language: An Introduction to the Methodology of the Biological Sciences, Including Medicine|url=https://archive.org/details/biologylanguage00wood|year=1952|publisher=University Press}}
- {{cite book|last=Ryle|first=Gilbert|title=Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=95yNCgAAQBAJ|date=2015-10-15|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-11362-6}}
- {{cite book | chapter=The Physical Basis of Consciousness | first1=Erwin | last1=Schrodinger | title=What is Life? | last2=Penrose | first2=Roger | year=2012 | pages=93–102 | isbn=978-1-107-29562-9 | doi=10.1017/CBO9781107295629.012}}
- {{cite book|last=Pantin|first=C. F. A.|title=Relations Between Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbWfW_sqzTwC|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-14815-3}}
- {{cite journal | first1=H. A. C. | title=The Relation Between the Time of Psychology and the Time of Physics Part I | journal=The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | year=1951 | issue=6 | pages=122–141 | doi=10.1093/bjps/II.6.122 | last1=Dobbs| volume=2 }}
- {{cite journal | first1=H. A. C. | title=The Relation Between the Time of Psychology and the Time of Physics Part II | journal=The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | year=1951 | issue=7 | pages=177–192 | doi=10.1093/bjps/II.7.177 | last1=Dobbs| volume=2 }}
- {{cite book|last=Bondi|first=Hermann|title=Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4F9pb7iaQ0AC|year=1967|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-04282-6}}
- {{cite book|last=Wright|first=Georg Henrik von|title=Time, Change and Contradiction: Delivered at Cambridge Univ. 1. Nov. 1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xXmYPgAACAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
- {{cite book|last=Buchdahl|first=Gerd|title=Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science: The Classical Origins: Descartes to Kant|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i0b7twEACAAJ|year=1969|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-631-11720-9}}
- {{cite book|last1=Kneale|first1=William Calvert|last2=Kneale|first2=Martha|title=The Development of Logic|url=https://archive.org/details/developmentoflog0000knea|url-access=registration|year=1962|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-824773-9}}
- {{cite book|last=Black|first=Max|title=Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays in Language, Logic, and Art|url=https://archive.org/details/caveatscritiques0000blac|url-access=registration|year=1975|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-0958-5}}
- {{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Edward O.|title=Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-YsWNfTXU7oC|year=1999|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0-679-76867-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Dyson|first=Freeman|title=Origins of Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Fqsd-v4LcwC|year=1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-42576-6}}
- {{cite book|last=Huxley|first=Andrew|editor-first=D. S.|editor-last=Bendall|title=Evolution From Molecules to Men|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYM4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3|year=1985|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-28933-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/evolutionfrommol0000unse/page/3 3–19]|chapter=How Far Will Darwin Take Us?|url=https://archive.org/details/evolutionfrommol0000unse/page/3}}
- {{cite journal | url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n16/ian-hacking/making-up-people | title=Making Up People | date=2006 | last=Hacking | first=Ian | journal=London Review of Books | volume=28 | issue=16 | pages=23–26 | issn=0260-9592}}
- {{cite book | title=From Physics to Metaphysics | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=1995 | last=Redhead | first=Michael | location=Cambridge | isbn=978-0-511-62284-7 | doi=10.1017/cbo9780511622847}}
- {{cite book|last=Rudwick|first=Martin J. S.|title=Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gRv7Zx6wHQC|year=2005|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-73111-7}}
- {{cite book|last=Morris|first=Simon Conway|title=Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe|url=https://archive.org/details/lifessolutionine01conw|url-access=registration|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-44080-6}}
- {{cite book | first1=Lorraine | first2=Peter | last1=Daston | url=https://archive.org/details/objectivity_dast_2007_000_10372323 | title=Objectivity | publisher=Zone Books | last2=Galison | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-890951-78-8 | url-access=registration }}
- {{cite web | url=https://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/741056 | title=Video & Audio: Tarner Lectures (2010) | first=Simon | last=Schaffer | website=sms.cam.ac.uk}}
- {{cite web | url=https://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1327676 | title=Video & Audio: Trinity College Tarner Lectures (2012) | first=Geoffrey | last=Lloyd | website=sms.cam.ac.uk}}
- {{cite web | url=https://sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/collection/3090449 | title=Video & Audio: Tarner Lecture Series 2019 | first=Elliott | last=Sober | website=sms.cam.ac.uk}}
External links
- [https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/about/public-lecture-series/tarner/ Web page at Trinity College]
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