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	FACULTY GRADUATE STUDENTS EVENTS CALENDAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM GRADUATE PROGRAM CONTACT US APPLY MASTER SCHEDULE UNIVERSITY CALENDARS USC LIBRARIES ABOUT COLUMBIA SC Search USC   THIS SITE RESTRICTED ACCESS:   Faculty | Graduate Students   Blackboard   VIP   Student Email   Faculty/Staff Email		COLLOQUIA & CONFERENCES    FLYER WHO'S AFRAID OF NAGELIAN REDUCTION?   Stephan Hartmann Department of Philosophy and Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science University of Tilburg   May 1, 2009 Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm Byrnes Building, Room 413   We reconsider the Nagelian theory of reduction and argue that, contrary to a widely held view, it is the right analysis of inter-theoretic reduction. For one, its purported successor, so-called new wave reductionism, turns out collapses into a sophisticated version of Nagelian reduction and hence does not provide an alternative. For another, the alleged difficulties of the Nagelian theory either vanish upon closer inspection, or turn out to be interesting philosophical questions rather than knock-down arguments. The talk is based on a joint paper with Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Roman Frigg.   Stephan has also agreed to an informal session with graduate students and faculty interested in philosophy of physics. The topic will be "Probability and Decoherence." We start at 11:30 on May 1st in Byrnes 413. Suggested background readings are Probability and Decoherence. Entanglement, Upper Probabilities and Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics (with Patrick Suppes), to appear in: M. Dorato et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association. Berlin: Springer 2009.
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