Norton for Everyone?
October 27 -28, 2018
Center for Philosophy of Science
1008 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Of potential interest to participants: On Friday, October 26, 3:30PM: Hasok Chang will speak in the HPS Lecture Series.
PROGRAM
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Saturday Talks, Oct. 27
1008 CL
8:00 |
Breakfast |
9:00 |
Speaker 1: Elay Shech (Auburn University)
“Historical Inductions Meet the Material Theory” |
9:50 |
Speaker 2: Molly Kao (University of Montreal)
“Induction and Deduction in the Context of Pursuit” |
10:40 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 |
Speaker 3: Jonathan Livengood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Debunking Induction” |
11:50 |
Speaker 4: Leah Henderson (University of Groningen) “Norton at the Boundaries of Probability” |
12:40 |
Lunch on your own |
2:00 |
Speaker 5: Richard Dawid (University of Stockholm)
“The Material Inductivist, the Bayesian, and Complete Ignorance” |
2:50 |
Speaker 6: Michel Janssen (University of Minnesota)
"The trouble with I in IBE” |
3:40 |
Coffee Break |
4:00 |
Speaker 7: Wendy Parker (Durham University)
"Inferring the Best Explanation of 20th Century Climate Change" |
4:50 |
Speaker 8: David Wallace (University of Southern California) “Quantum Inductive Logic and the Everett Interpretation” |
Sunday Seminars, Oct. 28
1008 CL
8:00 |
Breakfast |
9:00 |
Part I: The Proposal
Led by Balazs Gyenis (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Eric Hatleback (Carnegie Mellon University) |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:45 |
Part II: The Virtue Critique
Led by Siska De Baerdemaeker (University of Pittsburgh), Dasha Pruss (University of Pittsburgh) |
12:15 |
Lunch on your own |
1:30 |
Part III: The Bayes Critique
Led by Jonathan Bain (New York University) and Nora Boyd (Siena College) |
3:00 |
Coffee Break |
3:15 |
Part IV: The Puzzle Cases
Led by Bryan Roberts (London School of Economics) and Jeremy Butterfield (University of Cambridge) |
4:45 |
Concluding Remarks |
5:00 |
Adjourn |
Organizing Committee:
John Earman, Bryan W. Roberts, Elay Shech
For more info:
Joyce McDonald pittcntr@pitt.edu, Bryan W. Roberts b.w.roberts@lse.ac.uk, Elay Shech ezs0038@auburn.edu
Sponsored by the Center for Philosophy of Science
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