Michael Friedman, Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at the University of Stanford, will be on campus to give his talk on “Einstein, Kant, and the A Priori” sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. His research interests include Kant, Philosophy of Science, History of Twentieth Century Philosophy, including the interaction between philosophy and the exact sciences from Kant through the logical empiricists, prospects for post-Kuhnian philosophy of science in light of these developments, and the relationship between analytic and continental traditions in the early twentieth century
This lecture is part of the “Workshops of the Program of Modern & European Philosophy” cosponosred by the Institute of Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.