Peterfest: A Workshop in Honor of Peter Machamer
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , PA USA
::: Donuts page with photos
Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required. To register, please contact rubus@pitt.edu.
Saturday Morning
8:30
9:00
9:15
10:00
10:30
11:15
12:15
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Continental Breakfast
Introduction:
Carl Craver, Washington University, St. Louis
Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Chair: David Malament, University of California, Irvine
Dan Garber, Princeton University
Was Galileo a Mechanical Philosopher?
Coffee
Chair: Robert Olby, University of Pittsburgh
Lindley Darden, University of Maryland
Mechanisms and Discovery
Chair: Gary Hardcastle, Bloomsburg University
Collaborators:
Lisa Osbeck, University of West Georgia
Jim Bogen, University of Pittsburgh
Heather Douglas, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Lunch
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Saturday Afternoon
2:00
2:45
3:45
4:15
5:00
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Chair: Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
Aristides Baltas,
National Technical University of Athens
Peter Machamer and the Mind-Body Identity Thesis
Chair: Zvi Biener, Western Michigan University
Students:
Uljana Feest, Technische Universität Berlin
Erik Angner, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jackie Sullivan, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Coffee
Chair: John Earman, University of PIttsburgh
Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
Pragmatic Laws and Mechanisms
Chair: John D. Norton
Toast and Roast:
Ted McGuire, University of Pittsburgh
Rick Grush, University of California, San Diego
Jim Woodward, Cal Tech
George Gale, University of Missouri, Kansas City
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Program Committee
Carl Craver, Washington University, St. Louis
Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Coaster Design
Bryan Roberts, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsors
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Dept of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Dept of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Dept of Communications, University of Pittsburgh
Dept of English, University of Pittsburgh
Dept of French/Italian, University of Pittsburgh
Dept of History, University of Pittsburgh
Dept of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Program for Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh
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