lunchtime colloquium 2011-12 and other talks

September 2011

::: Leibniz as Mechanist and Mechanician
Nicholas Rescher, Department of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh ,
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Common Causal Explanations and the Bell Inequalities
Gábor Hofer-Szabó (CPS Visiting Fellow)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Wesley C. Salmon Memorial Lecture
Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Friday, 16 September 2011
3:30 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: How Can We Be Moral When We Are So Irrational?
Nils-Eric Sahlin (CPS Visiting Fellow)
Lund University
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Introspection as a Method and Introspection as a Feature of Consciousness
Uljana Feest (CPS Visiting Fellow)
TU Berlin
Friday, 23 September 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Splitting the Hairs of Locality:  How and Why?
Adrian Wúthrich (CPS Postdoctoral Fellow)
University of Bern
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Benign Convergent Realism
Armond Duwell (CPS Visiting Fellow)
University of Montana
Friday, 30 September 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

October 2011

::: Prototypical Reasoning about Species and the Species Problem:
Doing without Definition - Species as a Proxy Concept
Yuichi Amitani, CPS Postdoctoral Fellow
University of British Columbia
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Generality Constraint and the Structure of Thought
Jacob Beck, Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University
Friday, 7 October 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: On the Status of the Geodesic Principle in Newtonian and Relativistic Physics
James Owen Weatherall, Department of Philosophy
University of California, Irvine
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Another Look at Semmelweis
Dana Tulodziecki, CPS Visiting Fellow
Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Fair Judge and the Cruel Realist
Leah Henderson, CPS Visiting Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, 21 October 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Enlightening Falsehoods
Soazig LeBihan, CPS Visiting Fellow
Department of Philosophy, University of Montana
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

November 2011

::: Frequencies, Chances, and Undefinable Sets
Jan-Willem Romeijn, Fellow, CMU Center for Formal Epistemology
University of Groningen
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
12:05 pm, 1228 Cathedral of Learning

::: Integrative Pluralism: the Case of Protein-Folding
Sandra D. Mitchell , Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, 4 November 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Approximation and Idealization: Why the Difference Matters
John D. Norton, CPS / Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Hobbes on the Preservation of Motion
Kurt Smith, Department of Philosophy
Bloomsburg University
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The New Quantum Logic
Robert B. Griffiths, Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

December 2011

No Lunchtime Talks

January 2012

::: Problems of Decision under Conditions of Certainty
Nicholas Rescher, Department of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Simplifying Choice
Paul Weirich, Visiting Fellow
University of Missouri
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Newton and Proclus on the Geometry of Absolute Space
Mary Domski, Visiting Fellow
University of New Mexico
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Second Law of Thermodynamics in Quantum Field Theory
David Snoke, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

February 2012

::: Segregating Conscious Vision
Wayne Wu, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Department of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Bell Inequality and Common Causal Explanation in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory
Gábor Hofer-Szabó, (CPS Visiting Fellow)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Colour Constancy and the Relativities Therein
Derek Brown, Department of Philosophy
Brandon University
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Galileo's Refutation of the Speed-Distance Law of Fall Rehabilitated
John D. Norton, Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh; and
Bryan Roberts, Department of History & Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2012

::: Conservation, Activity, and the Anti-Cartesian Argument of the Queries to Newton's Opticks
Katherine Dunlop, Department of Philosophy
Brown University
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Neural Reuse in the Functional Organization of the Brain
Michael Anderson, Department of Psychology
Franklin & Marshall College
Friday, 16 March 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

April 2012

::: Dynamics, Data, and Noise in the Cognitive Sciences
Anthony Chemero, Department of Psychology
Franklin & Marshall College
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method
William Harper, Department of Philosophy
University of Western Ontario
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Renormalization, Coarse-Graining, and the Fragile Individual
Simon DeDeo
Santa Fe Institute
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning