<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
To Sydphil</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
I will speak to the Glebe Realists on </div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<b>David Stove (1927-1994), Sydney philosopher: Life and work</b></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
on Tues March 30 at 4 for 4.30-6</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Venue: Benledi Room, Glebe Library, 186 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe<br>
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Abstract: <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">I will introduce the life and work of the Sydney University philosopher David Stove. The central idea of his technical work was that probabilistic arguments were a kind of
logic. That led him to an account of why induction is rational and an attack on the "irrationalism" of leading philosophers of science such as Popper and Kuhn. In later life his controversial opinions on the intellectual (in)equality of women and the defects
of Darwinian theory created trouble.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><br>
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">James Franklin</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/eEKEC0YKPviG2nO7rUw_N6i?domain=maths.unsw.edu.au" id="LPlnk947304">http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim</a></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><br>
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><br>
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">PS: The talk I gave to the Glebe Realists last year on David Armstrong is available as video (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sRY1CgZ0N1iAlvXoYCoWJcN?domain=youtube.com" id="LPlnk734793">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK2_EhCUijw</a>)
and text (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RLVACjZ1N7injzLBys50CQX?domain=web.maths.unsw.edu.au" id="LPlnk379998">https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/dmasydneyrealist.pdf</a>)</span></div>
</body>
</html>