Melissa Jacquart, University of Cincinnati Idealization and Representation in Astrophysical Computer Simulations This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q3M6SodYQVWUcRmZbUo9mA ABSTRACT: Scientific models and computer simulations are indispensable to scientific practice. Through their use, scientists are able to effectively learn about how the world works, and to […]

Nick Byrd, Carnegie Mellon University and the Stevens Institute of Technology Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical Beliefs Dominated Reflection and Identifiable Victim Effects when Predicting Public Health Recommendation Compliance during COVID-19 Pandemic This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LCTU5Oi8SjCLu4CC5pgNqQ ABSTRACT:  Philosophers and scientists have emphasized […]

John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh Dept of HPS How to Make Possibility Safe for Empiricists This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required.  Please register here:  https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wijbswi3T-Cvz5HQOrBY6Q ABSTRACT: What is possible, according to the empiricist conception, is what our evidence positively allows; and what is necessary is what it […]

Kevin Zollman, Carnegie Mellon University Conformity, Social Networks, and the Emergence of Pluralistic Ignorance This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qhw1ZPEMQIyOriVzFfxTGg ABSTRACT: Occasionally, people refuse to publicly state their beliefs because they think others disagree.  Others do in fact share their belief, but are also afraid […]

Paolo Palmieri, Pitt HPS Thermodynamic Myths This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register here:  https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HDxPfvXgS7WJoOByiQiVwQ ABSTRACT:  Tricksters, sorting demons and anthropomorphism in thermodynamics... or how myth and science must needs cross their paths. And how is thought experimenting at the joints of macro- and microscopic nature? Are physicists […]

Subrena Smith, University of New Hampshire Turning Race Inside Out This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register here:  https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-pAsFsJ6QI62VKdTFx3o5w ABSTRACT:  Suppose you were to look at me and say of me that I am a Black person. Suppose, further, that you proceed to treat me as a Black […]