Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences, underdetermination

Saturday-Sunday, 21-22 March 2009
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , PA USA

For preprints related to this workshop, see the workshop section on philsci-archive.

8:45-9:15

9:15 - 9:30

9:30 - 10:30

10:30-11:30

11:30- 12:00

12:00- 1:00

1:00-2:30

Continental Breakfast

Opening. Kyle Stanford and John D. Norton

Kyle Stanford
Dept of Logic and Philosophy of Science
University of California, Irvine
Getting Real: Underdetermination and the Hypothesis of Organic Fossil Origins

David Harker
Dept of Philosophy and Humanities
East Tennessee State University
Resisting Underdetermination: Caught Between the Data and the Deep Blue Sea

Break

Dana Tulodziecki
Dept of Philosophy
University of Missouri , Kansas City
Underdetermination, Methodological Practices, and the Case of John Snow

Lunch Break

Saturday Afternoon
Chair: Brian Pitts

2:30-3:30

3:30-4:30

4:30-5:00

5:00-6:00

John D. Norton
Dept of HPS and Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Must Evidence Underdetermine Theory?

John Manchak
Dept of Logic and Philosophy of Science
University of California, Irvine
What is a 'Physically Reasonable' Spacetime?

Break

P. D. Magnus
Dept of Philosophy
State University of New York, Albany
The Identical Rivals Response to Underdetermination

Sunday Morning
Chair: James Bogen

9:00-9:30

9:30-10:30

10:30-10:40

10:40-12:30

Coffee

Nicholas Rescher
Dept of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
On the Roots and Consequences of Underdetermination

Break

Open discussion
Editorial response to Kyle Stanford
The Underdetermination of Scientific Theory

Discussant

Greg Frost-Arnold, Dept of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
J. Brian Pitts, University of Notre Dame

Program Committee

John D. Norton, Dept of HPS and Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Kyle Stanford, Dept of Logic and Philosophy of Science
University of California, Irvine

Sponsor

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh