April 25th, 2013

• 7:00pm: CLIMATE CHANGE & THE FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH
  CLIMATE CHANGE & THE FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH • RICHARD LEAKEY (Paleoanthropologist, Environmentalist)
  
  Named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century,” Leakey and his family have made some of the most significant fossil discoveries in history. After 40 years of linking the past to the present, Leakey looks to the future and our stewardship of the climate. As we threaten biodiversity and damage ecosystems, could we be revving up the planet for the next major mass extinction—our own?
• 7:30pm: Wind Symphony Concert
  General Admission is $10. Admission for Students, Seniors and L&C Faculty/Staff is $5. Admission is FREE for L&C Students with ID.

April 26th, 2013

• 3:30pm - 5:00pm: Natural kinds and ceteris paratis generalizations: In praise of hunches Christopher Boyd (UC Irvine) and Dick Boyd (Lewis & Clark College, Cornell University)
  Traditional philosophy of science focuses on ‘laws’ and generalizations that are true, or approximately true, or true ceteris paribus and on highly reliable patterns of scientific inference.  Kinds or categories are said to be ‘natural kinds’ just in case they figure in such laws, generalizations or inference patterns.  Examples from the inferential architecture of synthetic chemistry illustrate the need for a broader philosophical conception encompassing the roles of generalizations that are true ceteris paratis (true if you fiddle things right), of inferences that rely on informed hunches that are true saepe satis  (true often enough), and of natural kinds appropriate for such generalizations and inferences.

April 28th, 2013

• 3:00pm: Community Chorale and Orchestra Spring Concert
  Major repertoire for combined choir and orchestra. Katherine FitzGibbon and Jeffrey Specht will conduct. General admission $10, Lewis & Clark faculty, alumni, and senior citizens $5, and students free in advance ($5 at the door).

August 2nd, 2013

• 11:00am - 2:00pm: 8th Annual Albany Society BBQ
  You are invited to join the festivities at the 8th Annual Albany Society BBQ on Palatine Hill with friends, faculty emeriti, and fellow Albany Society members.