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Saturday, 9 April 2011
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , PA USA

Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required. To register, please contact rubus@pitt.edu.

Saturday Morning
Session 1: Mechanistic Explanation: Ontology, Representation, and Understanding

10:00 am	Continental Breakfast
10:30	Mechanisms: Ontology, Psychology, and Representations Peter Machamer, University of Pittsburgh
11:00	Eureka, I think I've Got it! ...and Why You Should Care Jonathan Waskan, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana
	cancelled Kelvin's Dictum Revived: The Intelligibility of Mechanisms Henk de Regt, VU University Amsterdam
11:30	Coffee Break
11:45	Comments Jim Woodward, University of Pittsburgh
12:00 pm	Discussion Lindley Darden, Chair, University of Maryland, College Park
12:30	Lunch

Saturday Afternoon
Session 2: Mechanisms and Regularity

2:00 pm	Causes, Regularity, and Context Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
2:30	A Taxonomy of Regularity for Mechanisms and Its Role in Individuation Holly Andersen, Simon Fraser University
3:00	Causality and Causal Explanation: Putting Regularities in Their Place Jim Bogen, University of Pittsburgh
3:30	Biological Information and Some Problems for Regularity Requirements in the Analysis of Mechanisms Richard Burian, Virginia Tech
4:00	Coffee Break
4:15	General Comments Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
4:30	General Comments Ken Schaffner, University of Pittsburgh
4:45-5:30	Discussion Lindley Darden, Chair, University of Maryland, College Park

Sponsors

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
The Harvey and Leslie Wagner Endowment