lunchtime colloquium 2017-18 and other talks

September 2017

::: Prediction, Fashion, and the Future of Science
Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Friday, Sept. 8, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: The Emergence of Absolute Time: A Conceptual Framework
Geoffrey Gorham, Visiting Fellow
Malacaster College
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Külpe, Feigl, and American Critical Realism
Matthias Neuber, Visiting Fellow
University of Tübingen
Friday, Sept. 15, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Universality, Stability, Autonomy, and Scales
Robert Batterman
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Rethinking the Epistemology and Ontology of Spacetime:
the Einstein-Lorentz-Poincaré Connection
Pablo Acuña Luongo, Visiting Fellow
Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Friday, Sept. 22, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R CL

::: Applying Measures of Meaning in HPS
Colin Allen, Senior Visiting Fellow
University of Pittsburgh, Department of HPS
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R CL

October 2017

::: Climate Change Skepticism and Beliefs about Science
Karen Kovaka, Center Postdoc Fellow
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Towards a Realist View of Quantum Field Theory
James Fraser, Center Postdoc Fellow
Friday, October 6, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Temporal Asymmetry of Chance
Alison Fernandes, Postdoc Fellow, University of Warwick
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Emergent Space Ontologies in the Early Modern Period
Edward Slowik, Winona State University
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Simply Understanding the World
Daniel Wilkenfeld, Center Visiting Fellow
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Against Neuropsychological Cases for Unconscious Vision
Wayne Wu, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Philosophy
Associate Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

November/December 2017

::: Ockham’s Razor and the Topology of Simplicity
Kevin Kelly (with Konstantin Genin), Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Philosophy
Friday, November 3, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Public Goods and Epistemic Governance
Kevin Zollman, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Concensus: Sometimes it Doesn’t Add Up
John Beatty, University of British Columbia, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Construct Validity Challenges in Psychiatry Using Human and Animal Models
Kenneth Schaffner, University of Pittsburgh, HPS Distinguished U. Prof. Emeritus
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Safe-and-substantive Perspectivism
David Danks, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

January 2018

::: Distant Posterity
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Metaphysics of Science without an Eschatology of Science
Porter Williams, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, January 19, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Ecological Theory and the Niche
James Justus, Florida State University, Center Visiting Fellow
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Motivation for Non-standard Precise and Imprecise Probability
Teddy Seidenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, January 26, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Microstructure of Scientific Revolutions
Simon DeDeo, Carnegie Mellon University/Santa Fe Inst.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

February 2018

::: Physics and Metaphysics: a Modest-ambitious Manifesto
Vincenzo Fano, Visiting Fellow
University of Urbino, Italy
Friday, February 2, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Data (Long) Before Big Data
Chris Meyns, Visiting Fellow
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Causation as Production and Dependence
Dmitri Gallow, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Reviving the Hopeful Monster: Richard Goldschmidt and Saltational Evolution
Michael R. Dietrich, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of History & Philosophy of Science
Friday, February 16, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Anomalies and the Range of Applications of an Empirical Theory: Two Case Studies
Ulrich Gähde, Visiting Fellow
University of Hamburg, Germany
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Bridging Non-Human and Human Economic Decision-Making
Armin Schulz, Visiting Fellow
University of Kansas
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

March 2018

::: Mermin in Bananaworld: Bub on Quantum Mechanics
Michel Janssen
University of Minnesota
Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Perils of P-Hacking and the Promise of Pre-Analysis Plans
Jacob Stegenga
University of Cambridge, History & Philosophy of Science
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

April 2018

::: What is Philosophy of Biology?: A Data-Driven Account
Phillip Honenberger, Postdoctoral Associate
University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Perspectivism: Methods, Models and Representation
Sandra D. Mitchell, U. of Pittsburgh, HPS
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Prospects for Amodal Concepts
Fernando Martínez-Manrique, U. of Granada, Philosophy
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning