Event Detail
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Wed Feb 13, 2019 Alumni House 4–6 PM |
Howison Lectures in Philosophy Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts |
The view that the sciences make progress, while the arts do not, is extremely common. This lecture will challenge it. Scientific progress has social dimensions. A socially embedded notion of scientific progress then allows for a parallel concept of progress applicable to the arts.