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::: center home >> events >> conferences >> other >> 2008-09 >> underdetermination

Underdetermination in Science

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

Registration is requested but not required.

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

Photos and more.

Each talk is 40 minutes with 20 minutes discussion.

     Saturday Morning
     
Chair: Greg Frost-Arnold

 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

 
 
Revised 4/13/09 - Copyright 2008