lunchtime colloquium 2014-15 and other talks

September 2014

::: Oversimplification
Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Social Values Influence the Adequacy Conditions of Scientific Theories: Beyond Inductive Risk
Ingo Brigandt, Visiting Fellow
University of Alberta
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: How Diagrams Fertilize Discovery
Nicholaos Jones, Visiting Fellow
University of Alabama, Huntsville
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Strategies for Dealing with Biological Complexity
Sara Green, Postdoc Fellow
Aarhus University
Friday, Sept. 26, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Homonegativity and the Medicalization of Homosexuality
Andreas de Block
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

October 2014

::: Explanation and Partiality in Cognitive Science
Maria Serban, Postdoctoral Fellow
University East Anglia (UK)
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Case Structure and the Epistemology of Disagreement
Joshua Alexander, Visiting Fellow
Siena College
Friday, October 10, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: The Koan of Pyrrhonism
Armando Cintora, Visiting Scholar
Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico)
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CaL

::: Induction in the Socratic Tradition
John McCaskey
Friday, October 17, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Biological Regulation: a Conceptual Clarification and Proposal
Leonardo Bich, Visiting Scholar
University of the Basque Country
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: West Coast Idealism:  Biological Mechanisms as Theoretical Posits
William Bechtel, Senior Visiting Fellow
University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Dealing with Scientific Uncertainty:  The Case of the ‘Threshold of Toxicological Concern’ Approach in Health Risk Assessment
Karim Bschir, Visiting Fellow
ETH Zurich
Friday, October 31, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R CL

November/December 2014

::: Confronting Philosophical Concepts with Historical Cases
Raphael Scholl, Visiting Fellow
University of Bern
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: A Classical System with Entanglement
David Snoke
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Physics
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Should the Debate Over Scientific Realism Go Local?
Leah Henderson
Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Evolving to Generalize: Trading Speed for Precision
Cailin O’Connor, University of California, Irvine
Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Bayesian Cognitive Science and the Nativism vs. Empiricism Controversy
Matteo Colombo, Tilburg University
Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Friday, December 5, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

January 2015

::: Alien Science
Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: What Happened to Phlogiston? Reconsidering the Chemical Revolution
Wayne Myrvold
University of Western Ontario
Friday, January 16, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Two Impossibility Results for Popperian Corroboration
Jan Sprenger, Tilburg University
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Rudolf Carnap and the Dilthey School: Humanities in the Aufbau
Christian Damböck, Visiting Fellow
Institute Vienna Circle
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Direct Realism and the Predictive Mind
Zoe Drayson, Visiting Fellow
University of Stirling
Friday, January 30, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

February 2015

::: Reproducibility of Findings in Experimental Philosophy: Problems and Possible Solutions
Hamid Seyedsayamdost, Visiting Fellow
Friday, February 6, 2015
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning


::: How Constructive Relativity May Succeed
Allan Walstad
University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Mechanistic Explanation and Causal Structure
Robert Richardson
University of Cincinnati
Friday, February 13, 2015
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning


::: Causation and Default-processes
Andreas Hüttemann
University of Cologne
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Accentuate the Negative: A Puzzle about the Structure of the 'Origin' Solved
James Lennox
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, February 20, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Argument from the Good Lot: Unconceived Alternatives and 19th Century Bacteriology
Raphael Scholl, Visiting Fellow
University of Bern
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2015

::: Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Science and Facilitates Religion
Robert N. McCauley
Emory University
Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture
Friday, March 6, 2015
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Why Science?
Maralee Harrell
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Causal and Non-Causal Probabilities in Applied Population Genetics
Marshall Abrams
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Can a Good Experiment Fail?
Allan Franklin
University of Colorado
Department of Physics
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

April 2015

::: Simplicity, Truth, Rhetoric, and Topology
Kevin T. Kelly
Carnegie Mellon U., Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, April 7
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: A 'School of Athens' for Astronomy: The Engraved Frontispiece of Kepler's Rudolphine Tables
Stefano Gattei
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca
Tuesday, April 14
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning