lunchtime colloquium 2016-17 and other talks

September 2016

::: Randomness and Reason
Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Friday, September 9, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: The Quiet Moments of Integration: G. Ledyard Stebbins, Historiography, and the Evolutionary Synthesis (1959-2000)
Vassiliki Betty Smocivitis
U. of Florida, Depts. of Biology and History
Friday, Sept. 16, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R CL


::: Why We Cannot Learn from Minimal Models
Roberto Fumagalli
University of Bayreuth
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: A Case Study in the Metaphysics of Biological Practice: The Parts of the Human Genome
Marie Kaiser
University of Köln, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Skepticism about Causal Evidence in Macroeconomics
Tobias Henschen, Visiting Fellow
University of Konstanz
Friday, Sept. 30, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R CL

October 2016

::: Simplicity and Unification in Cosmological Model Selection
Yann Benetreau-Dupin, Postdoc Fellow
University of Western Ontario
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Science and Moral Imagination: Towards a New Ideal for Values in Science
Matthew Brown, Visiting Fellow
University of Texas, Dallas
Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science
Friday, October 7, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Mechanisms, Explanation, and Prediction
Viorel Pâslaru, Visiting Fellow
University of Dayton
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Pragmatism about Causation and Chance
Alison Fernandes, Postdoc Fellow
Columbia University
Friday, October 14, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Intuition and Visualization in Mathematics with Particular Reference to Felix Klein
Daniele Muttini, Visiting Fellow
University of Bologna
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Explanatory Asymmetry and Inferential Practice
Kareem Khalifa, Visiting Fellow
Emory University
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

November/December 2016

::: Bayesian Inferences and Conceptual Spaces: On How to Learn Words and Acquire Concepts
Peter Brössel
University of Pittsburgh, HPS (Visiting Scholar)
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Realist Pragmatism: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Particles
Anjan Chakravartty
University of Notre Dame (Center Sr. Fellow)
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: When is a Genetic Cluster a Race?
Quayshawn Nigel Julian Spencer
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: What Quantum Measurements Measure
Robert Griffiths
Carnegie Mellon University, Physics
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

January 2017

::: The Early RAND (An Extraordinary Venture in the Incubation of Talent)
Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Comparing and Individuating the Same Parts: Towards a Practice-Based Metaphysics for Homology
Catherine Kendig
Visiting Fellow, Michigan State University
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: On the Explanatory Relevance of Neuroeconomics
Mikael Cozic
Visiting Fellow, University of Paris-Est and IUF
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

February 2017

::: How to be a Historically Motivated Anti-Realist
Greg Frost-Arnold, Center Visiting Fellow
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Political Science Methodology: A Plea for Pluralism
Sharon Crasnow, Center Visiting Fellow
Norco College, California
Friday, February 17, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Forces on Fields
Charles Sebens
U. of California, San Diego, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Methodological Individualism and Collectivism in the Social Sciences
Wang Wei
Tsinghua U., Inst. of Science, Technology, and Society
Friday, February 24, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2017

::: On the Persistence of the Electromagnetic Field
Marton Gomori
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Philosophy
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Taxa and Trees: How does Phylogenetic Practice Impact the Metaphysics of Biological Classification?
Thomas Reydon
Leibniz U. Hannover, Inst. of Philosophy
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Need for Values in Science: The Contingency Argument
Matt Brown, Visiting Fellow
University of Texas, Dallas
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
12:05 pm
817R Cathedral of Learning

April 2017

::: The Trouble With Billiards
Mark Wilson
U. of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, April 4
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Reifying Representations
Michael Rescorla, UCLA
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Bayesian Accounts of Covert Selective Attention
Ben Vincent , University of Dundee
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning