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::: center home >> events >> conferences >> other >> 2014-15 >>bogenfest

Workshop in Honor of James Bogen

28 March 2015
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

 

       

8:45 - 9:15

Registration, Continental Breakfast

9:15

Welcome and Introduction

9:30 - 10:45

Session 1 Chair: Brian Keeley

  • Sandra Mitchell: “Multiple Empirical Models:  How Integration Helps”
  • Commentary: Lindley Darden

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:15

Session 2 Chair: Uljana Feest

  • Kenneth Schaffner: “The Search for Neurological 'Simplifications'”
  • Commentary: William Bechtel

12:15 - 1:15

Catered lunch at the Center and multimedia show

1:30 - 2:45

Session 3 Chair: Megan Delehanty

  • James Woodward: “Some Issues concerning explanation in neurobiology:  interventionism, mechanism and beyond”
  • Commentary: John Bickle

2:45 - 3:00

Coffee break

 

3:00 - 4:15

Session 4 Chair: Holly Andersen

  • Laura Ruetsche: “What is it like to be a woman in philosophy of physics?”
  • Commentary: Morgan Thompson (in collaboration with Liam Kofi Bright and Daniel Malinsky)

4:15 - 5:00

Open Mic: Reflections and Reminiscences (Chair: Peter Machamer)

5:00

Concluding remarks and musical birthday cake

 

 

Organizers:
Holly Andersen, Simon Fraser University
Uljana Feest, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Brian Keeley, Pitzer College
Peter Machamer, University of Pittsburgh

Sponsors:
Center for Philosophy of Science

 


 
 
 
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