lunchtime colloquium 2009-10 and other talks

September 2009

::: The Problem of Progress
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh , Department of Philosophy
Friday, 11 September 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Frames and Decisions
Natalie Gold, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Examining the Limits of Physics: Experimental Diversity Versus the Physics of Big Experiments
Slobodan Perovic, Postdoctoral Fellow
Carleton University
Friday, 25 September 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Emotions as Multimodal Constructs
Lisa Damm, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

October 2009

CANCELLED ::: What to Do If You Want To Defend a Theory You Can't Prove: Maxwell's Method of Physical Speculation
Peter Achinstein, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 2 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Two Challenges for the Unification of Electromagnetism and Optics
Lydia Patton (Visiting Fellow), Virginia Tech, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 6 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Quest for Scientific Proof in Psychological Medicine
Drozdstoj Stoyanov (Visiting Fellow), Medical University of Plovdiv, Department of Health Care Management
Friday, 9 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Does a Rock Perform Every Computation?
Mark Sprevak (Visiting Fellow), King's College, Cambridge
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Can Nonconceptual Content be Stored in Visual Memory?
Athanassios Raftopoulos (Visiting Fellow), Univiversity of Cyprus, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 16 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Cosmology and Inductive Inference: A Bayesian Failure
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh , Center for Philosophy of Science, Department of History & Philosophy of Science
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Science-Driven Mathematical Explanation
Alan Baker, Swarthmore College , Department of Philosophy
Friday, 30 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

November 2009

::: Engineers and Drifters: Carnap's Ideal of Explication and its Critics
André Carus, Open Court Publishing
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: 'Carving Nature at Its Joints'. Natural Kinds, Kantian Kinds, and the Problem of Induction
Michela Massimi, Visiting Faculty, University of Pittsburgh, Department of HPS and
University College London, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Friday, 6 November 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Do Group Cognitive States Play a Causal-Explanatory Role?
Robert Rupert, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

December 2009

::: Explanatory Models of Schizophrenia: Self-Monitoring and Auditory Hallucination
Wayne Wu , The Ohio State University, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

January 2010

::: Unruly Worlds: Issues of Anarchy and Unpredictability
Nicholas Rescher, University ofPittsburgh, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:05 pm 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Sellarsian Metaphilosophy and its Intricacies
Tadeusz Szubka, Szczecin University
Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Explaining Dynamically Complex Behavior
Meinard Kuhlmann, University of Bremen
Friday, January 22, 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Similarity and Induction
Susan Sterrett, Duke University
Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Method and Science in the Essais
Mariafranca Spallanzani, University of Bologna
Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

February 2010

::: A Locus for 'Now' - a Modal Perspective
Tomasz Placek, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Friday, 19 February 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2010

::: A Critical Reexamination of the Electrostatic Aharonov-Bohm Effect
Allan Walstad, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Department of Physics
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The ‘When’ of Inference: A Variation on a Hempelian Theme
David Danks, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: On the Structure of Anthropic Arguments
Wayne Myrvold, Talbot College, U. of Western Ontario
Friday, 19 March 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Transient Underdetermination and 19th-Century Electrodynamics
Wolfgang Pietsch, Technical University of Munich, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 30 March 2010, 12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

April 2010

CANCELLED ::: Questioning Einstein Dilation of Unstable Quanton Lifetimes
Gordon Fleming, Penn State University, Department of Physics (Emeritus)
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning