Knowledge: From antiquity to today

Tue Jan 29, 2013

18:00 to 20:00

Location

University of Cyprus Main Campus
75 Kallipoleos Avenue
Nicosia, Nicosia

Phone: 22894305

Description

Lecture entitled "Knowledge: From antiquity to today", will take place at the University of Cyprus on Tuesday, 29th of January at 18:00 (Old Campus, Main Auditorium Hall, Kallipoleos 75).

Professor Athanasios Fokas, Chairman in Nonlinear Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge, UK, will give his speech focusing on the accomplishments of neuroscience in answering the question of knowledge acquisition. Is a priori knowledge possible? Or is the human brain a "tabula rasa", as Aristotle supported?

(in Greek)