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LTT: Johanna Jauernig

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: People Prefer Moral Discretion to Algorithms: Algorithm Aversion Beyond Intransparency Abstract: We explore aversion to the use of algorithms in moral decision-making. So far, this aversion has been explained […]

LTT: S. Frolov

1008 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title:  Quantum Nanowires: A case study on reproducibility in natural sciences Abstract: Three years ago, I and a friend found major problems in a Nature paper in my field. The […]

LTT: Colin Allen

Title:  How much are large language models narrowing the gap to human intelligence?   Abstract:  ChatGPT was released in late October 2022. It is a public interface to GPT-3, an artificial […]

LTT: David Snoke

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: "A quantitative field theoretical for spontaneous collapse" Abstract: Any model of spontaneous collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics must involve alterations of the standard Schrödinger equation to […]

LTT: Philipp Berghofer

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: From Epistemology to Quantum Mechanics: A Phenomenological Proposal Abstract: Contemporary epistemology is dominated by externalist approaches. In this picture, evidence is not constituted by our experiences but by facts […]

LTT: John Michael

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: The Sense of Commitment in Joint Action: Towards a Comparative Perspective Abstract: Recent research provides evidence that, in the context of joint action, individuals’ sense of commitment sustains their […]

LTT: Arnon Levy

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: Inductive Risk and Value Freedom, Revisited Abstract: Work on the role of values in science has grown and diversified dramatically in the 21st century. But there is a near-consensus […]

LTT: Jim Woodward

Title: The Wordly Infrastructure of Causation Abstract: This talk  is based on joint work with Naftali Weinberger and Porter Williams. It will describe an alternative to currently dominant philosophical approaches […]

LTT: D. Dasgupta

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title:  Replacing STEM with Natural Philosophy: Reconfiguring the Science/Philosophy Relationship Abstract: The idea of this project is to seek to replace the current notions of STEM with the classical ideal […]

LTT: Eleanor Knox

Title: Spacetime, functionalism, and inertial frames Abstract: I advocate a form of spacetime functionalism that identifies spacetime with whatever picks out a structure of inertial frames. In this talk, I’ll […]

LTT: Meghan Page

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title:  A Novel Perspective on Pluralism in Climate Modeling Abstract: Modeling the mass-extinction event at the Permian Triassic Boundary (PTB), which is believed to have followed a warming event triggered by […]

LTT: Adam Koberinski

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title:  Renormalization group explanations in particle physics Abstract: Despite the highly analogous forms that renormalization group methods take in particle physics and condensed matter physics, there are key modal differences […]

LTT: Devin Gouvêa

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: Crafting Scientific Narratives Abstract: How do particular sets of experimental data become evidence for particular scientific claims? In this talk I call attention to the narrative constraints that shape […]

LTT: Brice Bantegnie

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: Where the Philosophy of Cognitive Science Went Wrong Abstract: One can hardly overestimate the influence of Jerry Fodor on the philosophy of cognitive science.  Fodor has left us two […]

LTT: Laura Gradowski

Title:  Expectation and exception: expertise as an epistemic constraint Abstract: I document historical cases of anomalies that resulted in theory changes, with an eye to the course of their reception […]

LTT: Nicholas Rescher – CANCELLED

1119 Cathedral of Learning

This talk has unfortunately been cancelled.   Title: Philosophy of Science comes to California Abstract: The talk describes how 20th Century philosophy of science migrated from Europe to the Los […]

LTT – Allan Walstad

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: The Model View Meets Quantum Ontology Abstract: What is here called the “model view” of science is a distinct perspective advanced by Ronald Giere and Paul Teller, which places […]

LTT – Lotem Elber – Dorozko

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: How, in a field rife with controversy, some neuroscientific models become generally accepted as good models? Abstract: There is much disagreement in Neuroscience. Many highly regarded and high-impact findings […]

LTT- Kati Kish Bar-On

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Mathematics and Society Reunited: The Social Aspects of Brouwer’s Intuitionism Abstract: Brouwer’s philosophy of mathematics is usually regarded as an intra-subjective, even solipsistic approach, which also underlies his mathematical […]

LTT – David Klinowski

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Voicing disagreement in science: Missing women Abstract: This paper examines the authorship of post-publication criticisms in the scientific literature, with a focus on gender differences. Bibliometrics from journals in […]

LTT: Andrew Cooper

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Induction as action: resolving the problem of Whewell’s idealism Abstract: William Whewell is a towering and yet ambiguous figure in Victorian science. Together with Herschel and Mill, he sought […]

LTT: Saira Khan

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Coarse-grained Theories of Cooperation and Myxobacteria Abstract: A particular strain of myxobacteria known as Myxococcus xanthus has received attention for its cooperative predation. I examine whether the same explanations proposed […]

LTT – David Waszek

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: From mathematical notations to the applications of mathematics: Studying epistemic accessibility Abstract: This talk is about mathematical notations, and more broadly about mathematical language. My goal is to present, […]

LTT – Lev Vaidman

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Transfer of quantum information in teleportation Abstract: The controversial issue of information transfer in quantum teleportation procedure is analyzed in the framework of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. […]

LTT – Henry Schiller

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: How do Imperatives Motivate? Abstract: (Joint work with Shaun Nichols.) How do we form beliefs on the basis of assertions of declarative sentences? According to the Spinozan theory of […]

LTT: Daniel Wilkenfeld

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Pursuit-Worthy Research in Health: Three Examples and a Proposal Abstract: In the ideal, we might want researchers and institutional reviewers from the populations affected by given research projects. However, […]

LTT: Margherita Harris

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Some Conceptual Problems in the IPCC Uncertainty Framework and Where to Go from Here Abstract: Studies of climate change are afflicted by deep uncertainty, the communication of which is […]

LTT: Raphael Scholl

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Empirical tests of infectious disease models Abstract: Epidemiologists have been developing mathematical and computational models to predict the course of epidemics since at least the 1920s. In this talk […]

LTT – Dan Nicholson

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: The New Physics Behind the Old Biology and the Old Physics Behind the New Biology: A Tale of Two Revolutions (in Three Acts) Abstract: In this talk I tell […]

LTT – Arnon Levy

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: A Critique of the Argument from Inductive Risk Abstract: The argument from inductive risk states that scientists should consider the consequences of their hypotheses and methodological choices in the […]