lunchtime colloquium 2010-11 and other talks

September 2010

::: Optimalization in Nature
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh , Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Why Fluent Explanations Feel Truth-y
J.D. Trout, Visiting Scholar (CPS)
Loyola University of Chicago, Department of Philosophy and Psychology
Friday, 17 September 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Doing Without ‘Theory’:  Towards a More Transparent Philosophy of Science
Peter Vickers, Postdoctoral Fellow (CPS), University of Leeds
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Structural Realism: From an Epistemological Point of View
Ioannis Votsis, Visiting Fellow (CPS), University of Düsseldorf
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

October 2010

::: Towards a New Epistemology of Science
Samuel Schindler, Visiting Fellow (CPS), University of Konstanz, Philosophy
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: What to Say about Natural Kinds
P.D. Magnus, Visiting Fellow (CPS), University at Albany, SUNY
Friday, 8 October 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: From Movement to Discipline:  The Philosophy of Science in the 20th Century
Heather Douglas, Visiting Fellow (CPS), University of Tennessee, Philosophy
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Causal Language and the Structure of Force in Newton’s Treatise
Hylarie Kochiras, Postdoctoral Fellow (CPS), University at Buffalo, SUNY
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Understanding and Explanatory Value
Kareem Khalifa, Visiting Scholar (CPS), Middlebury College
Friday, 22 October 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Is Science Necessarily Neutral from a Moral Viewpoint?
James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory and the Fact/Value Dichotomy
Pierluigi Barrotta, Visiting Fellow (CPS), University of Pisa, Philosophy
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

November 2010

::: The Berlin Group
Nikolay Milkov, University of Paderborn, Philosophy
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Waiting for Landauer
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science and
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

December 2010

::: Do Human Beings Have a Nature?
Richard Samuels, Visiting Fellow (CPS), Ohio State University, Philosophy
Friday, 3 December 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Representing the Theory of Classical Genetics with Special Attention to Causation
Bert Leuridan, Visiting Fellow (CPS), Ghent University, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

January 2011

::: What Einstein Wanted
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy
Friday, 14 January 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Scientific Models and Visual Representations:  Some Perspective
Laura Perini, Pomona College, Philosophy
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Ernst Mach’s ‘Method of Variation’ in Otto Neurath’s Economic Theory
Elisabeth Nemeth, University of Vienna, Philosophy
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

February 2011

::: In Defence of Structural Realism; or: the “Newman Objection”, what objection?
John Worrall, London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Fell Meets Haag: How Can We Tell Free and Interacting Quantum Fields Apart?
David John Baker, University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 4 February 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: From Substantival to Functional Vitalism and Beyond: Animas, Organisms and Attitudes
Charles Wolfe, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pittsburgh, Department of HPS
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: On Models with Separate Systems of Screener-offs for Bell’s Correlations
Tomasz Placek, Jagiellonian University, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 11 February 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Absolute Arithmetic Continuum and its Peircean Counterpart
Philip Ehrlich, Ohio University, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2011

::: Who Got What Wrong? Sober and F&PP on Darwin: Guide-Principles and Explanatory Models in Natural Selection
José Díez, Visiting Scholar (CPS), University of Barcelona, Spain
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: How to Weigh Evidence
Heather Douglas, Visiting Fellow (CPS), University of Tennessee
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Quantum Deviations from Einstein Dilation of Unstable Quantum Lifetimes
Gordon Fleming, Department of Physics (Emeritus), Penn State University
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

April 2011

:::Belief Here, Doubt There--What do you Really Think?
Brad Armendt, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Evidence and Risk: Medicine meets the Philosophy of Science
John Worrall, Wagner Fellow (CPS)
LSE, Dept. of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Space, Consciousness, and Control
Robert Briscoe, Department of Philosophy, Ohio University
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Gene: A Concept in Flux
Staffan Müller-Wille, Department of History, University of Exeter
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning