Wayne Wu, Carnegie Mellon University Dept of Philosophy (& Peter Lush, University of Sussex) Reassessing the Empirical Argument for Ownership in the Rubber Hand Illusion This will be an online […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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... […]

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 […]

Erica Shumener, University of Pittsburgh The Power to Govern This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required.  Please register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dg09CwNYS3GcOJQCekkivg ABSTRACT:  I offer a […]

Kevin Dorst, University of Pittsburgh Rational Polarization This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Please register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uX_6LEVoQu-WLuGBpQCAjA Abstract: Predictable polarization is everywhere.  When […]

Kate Stanton, University of Pittsburgh Contrastive Coordination and Multiphase Semantics This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required.  Please register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G6NZukgfS_WIKiMtu0CfBw ABSTRACT:  A common […]

Nick Huggett, University of Illinois at Chicago / Center Senior Visiting Fellow Missing the Point in Non-Commutative Field Theory This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration […]

Ryan Nefdt, University of Cape Town / Center Visiting Fellow Structures and the Special Sciences: The Case of Linguistics This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration […]

Riet Van Bork, Center Visiting Post-Doc Fellow A Causal Interpretation of Measurement Models in Psychology This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required.  Please register […]

Danielle Wenner, Carnegie Mellon University Clinical Research as Basic Structure & the Ethics of Health Research Priority-Setting This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. […]

Christopher Weaver, Center Fellow Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required.  Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_myf5wRdyQvagFkxPfKkSIg ABSTRACT: I show how Hamilton’s […]

Hannah Rubin, Center Fellow Structural Causes of Citation Gaps This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required.  Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-eIqsXAFSH-dGiGGk34bbg ABSTRACT: In many fields, members of […]

Mike Schneider, Center Post-Doc Fellow Empty Space and the (positive) Cosmological Constant This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required.  Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-4dbauiT82yJBqWzPWywA ABSTRACT:  I […]

Kareem Khalifa, Middlebury College Re-tooling the Epistemology of Measurement This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register here:  https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BKMs1HLSRc2gBhxjbXeW8w ABSTRACT:  Recent philosophical work on […]

The Lost Generation of Philosophers of Science: An Illustration Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh ABSTRACT: WWII derailed many philosophers of science from their career track.  A most interesting example of […]

Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness W Tecumseh Fitch, Dept of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT: Recent scientific discussions of consciousness have been dominated by the search for […]

Can Meaningless Statements be Approximately True? On the Semantic Component of Scientific Realism Darrell Rowbottom, Lingnan University, Center Visiting Fellow ABSTRACT: This paper argues that statements may be approximately true […]