lunchtime colloquium 2018-19 and other talks

September 2018

::: Credit for Scientific Discovery
Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 CL

::: Virtual Morris Water Maze: Independent Life of Experimental Systems
Nina Atanasova, Visiting Fellow
University of Toldeo
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 CL

::: Methodological and Ontological Principles of Cognitive Dysfunctions
Paola Hernandez-Chavez, Visiting Fellow
Centro Lombardo (Mexico)
Friday, Sept. 21, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 CL

::: A closer look at the 'Neurofication' of Theology
Machiel Keestra, Visiting Fellow
University of Amsterdam
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 CL

::: Three Connected Problems in Theories of Cultural Evolution...
William Wimsatt, Senior Visiting Fellow
University of Chicago
Friday, Sept. 28, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 CL
CANCELLED

October 2018

::: How Biological Technology Should Inform the Causal Selection Debate
Janella Baxter, Center Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Minnesota, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
12:05 pm, 1119 Cathedral of Learning

::: Simultaneity in Closed Flat Spacetime
Chunghyoung Lee, Center Visiting Fellow
Pohang University of Science & Technology, S. Korea
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
12:05 pm, 1119 Cathedral of Learning

::: Scientific Naturalism and Normative Explanation
Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame
Friday, October 12, 2018
12:05 pm, 1119 Cathedral of Learning

::: Localization and Complex Temporal Dynamics
Naftali Weinberger, Center Postdoctoral Fellow
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
12:05 pm, 1119 Cathedral of Learning

::: On Experience in Feyerabend’s Philosophy
Deivide Garcia da Silva Oliveira, Center Visiting Fellow
Federal University of Reconcavo of Bahia
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
12:05 pm, 1119 Cathedral of Learning

::: A Cognitive Theory of Information
Ronaldo Vigo, Dept. of Psychology;
Director, Consortium for the Advancement of Cognitive Science
Ohio University
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
12:05 pm, 1119 Cathedral of Learning

November 2018

::: Objectually Understanding Informed Consent
Daniel Wilkenfeld, Visiting Lecturer, U. Pittsburgh, Dept. of HPS
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Three Connected Problems in Theories of Cultural Evolution: population structure, development, and technology
William Wimsatt, Sr. Visiting Fellow
U. Chicago, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

:::The Alpha War
Edouard Machery, U. Pittsburgh, Director, Center for Philosophy of Science;
Dept. of HPS
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Beyond Theory of Mind: Using counterfactual questions to explore universality and diversity in children’s beliefs about mind, self, and the social world
Tamar Kushnir, Cornell U., Director, Cognitive Science
Friday, November 30, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

December 2018

::: Suffering: A neurofunctional account
Colin Allen, U. Pittsburgh, Dept. of HPS
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Making Sense of Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics
Harvey Brown, Visiting Professor in HPS; Oxford U.
Friday, December 7, 2018
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

January 2019

::: The Infinite Lottery Machine
John D. Norton
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of History & Philosophy of Science
Friday, January 11, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Causal and Semantic Relationships between Cognitive and Sensorimotor States
Daniel Burnston, Center Visiting Fellow
Tulane University
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Ceteris Paribus laws? Generic Sentences?
Liying Zhang, Center Visiting Fellow
Central University of Finance and Economics, China
Friday, January 18, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Lévy Flights of the Collective Imagination
Simon DeDeo
Carnegie Mellon University & Santa Fe Institute
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning
CANCELLED

::: Understanding Subjective Agency Through the Mirror Neuron System: Does the Immune System also Play Some Role?
Antonella Tramacere, Center Visiting Fellow
University of Göttingen
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

February 2019

::: Thanking, Apologizing, Bragging, and Blaming: The Currency of Communication
George Loewenstein
CMU
Friday, February 1, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: The Problem of Identity (Synchronic and Diachronic) in Quantum Mechanics
Tomasz Bigaj, Visiting Fellow
U. of Warsaw
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Kuhn’s Unfinished Project
Bojana Mladenović
Williams College, Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies
Friday, February 8, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Leibniz’ Program of Artificial Intelligence and the Mechanization of Thought
Nicholas Rescher
U. of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: What You Think Matters: Semantic Embedding, Computational Explanation, and Causal and Metaphysical Difference-Making
Lisa Miracchi
U. of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: The Representation of Object Concepts in the Human Brain
Bradford Z. Mahon
CMU, Dept of Psychology
Friday, February 22, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: How to Not be Misled While Multi-Scale Modeling
Naftali Weinberger, Postodctoral Fellow
Tilburg U.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

March 2019

::: Should We Take Alternative Genetic Codes Seriously?
Janella Baxter, Center Postdoctoral Fellow
University Minnesota
Friday, March 1, 2019
12:05 pm
1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Engaged Philosophy of Science - And Beyond
Kelli Barr
University of N. Texas
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Quantum Correlations Analyzed Modally — in the branching space-times framework
Tomasz Placek, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, visiting at Columbia, NY
Thomas Müller, University of Konstanz, Germany
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: The History and Philosophical Significance of the Analog/Digital Distinction
Zed Adams, The New School for Social Research
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

April 2019

::: How Objective Can Science Be?
Peter Urbach, London School of Economics
Professor Emeritus, Dept of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
12:05 pm
1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: The Hype, the Hope, and the Science Behind Precision Oncology
Anya Plutynski, Visiting Professor in HPS
Washington University in St. Louis
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning

::: Cognition Does Not Affect Perception
Chaz Firestone
Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning