lunchtime colloquium 2012-13 and other talks

September 2012

::: How Physics Works
Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Relativized A Priori in 20th Century Philosophy of Science
David Stump (CPS Visiting Fellow)
University of San Francisco
Friday, September 14, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Why Einstein Never Really Cared for Geometrization
Dennis Lehmkuhl (CPS Visiting Fellow)
University of Wuppertal
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Optimality Models, Explanation, and Idealization
Collin Rice (CPS Postdoctoral Fellow)
University of Missouri–Columbia
Friday, September 21, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Making Mental Disorders Amenable to Empirical Investigation:  Beyond Natural Kinds
Serife Tekin (CPS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Dalhousie University
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

October 2012

::: To have an effect of one’s own … Causal complexity and reconstituting the phenomena
Maria Kronfeldner (CPS Visiting Fellow)
University of Bielefeld
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Against Statistical Accounts of Special Science Laws
Alexander Reutlinger (CPS Visiting Fellow)
University of Cologne
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Philosophy of Cancer: Towards a Systemic Approach in Cancer Research
Marta Bertolaso (CPS Visiting Fellow)
University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome
Friday, October 12, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Hijacking the Emotional Brain
Karen Shanor
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Naturalism, Quietism, Evangelism
Kyle Stanford (CPS Senior Visiting Fellow)
University of California, Irvine
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Newton's Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the 18th Century
AW Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the Histoy of Science
Paula Findlen, Stanford University
October 22, 24, & 25 @ 5pm
817R Cathedral of Learning & Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

November 2012

::: Simplicity as a Surrogate
John D. Norton (Director, Center for Philosophy of Science)
University of Pittsburgh HPS
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Quantum Meaning
Richard Healey
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Friday, November 30, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

December 2012

::: Applying the Causal Theory of Reference to Intentional Concepts
John Michael
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
GNOSIS Research Centre, Aarhus University
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

January 2013

:::Ultimate Explanation
Nicholas Rescher, U. of Pittsburgh,
Dept. of Philosophy
Friday, January 11, 2013
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::The Argument from Underdetermination
Carsten Held (Center Visiting Fellow)
U. of Erfurt, Germany
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Laws, Models and Metaphysics
Jack Ritchie (Center Visiting Fellow)
U. of Cape Town, South Africa
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Signalling and Information in Gene Regulatory Networks
Brett Calcott
Australian Natl. University
Friday, January 25, 2013
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

February 2013

:::Why We Reason:  Intention-Alignment and the Genesis of Human Rationality
Andy Norman
Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Philosophy
Friday, February 8, 2013
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::The Genealogical Concept of Human Nature
Maria Kronfeldner
Center Visiting Fellow, Bielefeld U.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Russell meets Woodward - Three Objections to the Open Systems Argument
Alexander Reutlinger
Center Visiting Fellow, U. of Cologne
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Gene-Environment Interaction in the 21st Century: Its Rise, Its Fall, Its Rise?
James Tabery
U. Utah, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2013

::: Probability Logic and Human Reasoning
Niki Pfeifer
Visiting research scholar
Center for Formal Epistemology (CMU)
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU)
Tuesday, March 5, 12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Better Best System Analyses of Laws and the Trouble with Special Science Properties
Markus Schrenk
Universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf
Tuesday, March 19, 12:05 pm, 817R CL

HPS ALUMNI TALK
::: Arches and Scaffoldings: Continuity and Discontinuity in Building Relativity and Quantum Theory
Michel Janssen, ‘95
U. of Minnesota
Thursday, March 21, 5:00 pm, 817R CL

::: Abstraction and its Limits: Finding Space for Novel Explanation
Eleanor Knox
Kings College
Tuesday, March 26, 12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Against Explanatory Fundamentalism
Brad Weslake
U. of Rochester
Friday, March 29, 12:05 pm, 817R CL

April 2013

::: Individuating So-called "Indistinguishable" Quantum Systems
Adam Caulton
Cambridge University
Tuesday, April 2, 12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Stanford/Zollman Joint Talk
Tuesday, April 9, 12:05 pm, 817R CL

"Getting What We Pay For: Incentives, Social Structure, and the Closing of the Scientific Mind"
Kyle Stanford, Senior Visiting Fellow
University of California, Irvine

“Understanding the reward system of science: an economic approach”
Kevin Zollman, Dept. of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University

::: Minimal Models and Canonical Neural Computations
Mazviita Chirimuuta
University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
Tuesday, April 23, 12:05 pm, 817R CL