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Les Mécaniciens: Salon des Refusés

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

 
 
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