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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 […]

LTT: Marian J.R. Gilton

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Where counting counts: Supporting a particle interpretation of particle physics Abstract: There is a general consensus among philosophers of physics that quantum field theory (QFT) does not admit of […]

LTT: Laura Kate Matthews

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title:  Delusions as Cognitive-Affective Complexes Abstract: Delusions are defined in the DSM-5 as “beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence” (American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and […]

LTT: Javier Gomez-Lavin

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: How to build a mind without working memory: a computational approach to cognitive architecture Abstract: I want to argue that there’s something deeply wrong with the dominant thread running […]

LTT: Randall Westgren

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: The Pragmatism of C.S. Peirce and R.B. Brandom as a Frame for Modeling Entrepreneurship Abstract: The science of entrepreneurship has a surprisingly long history, dating from Richard Cantillon’s Essai […]

LTT: Brian Cross Porter

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: Perception and Preference in Poetry: Biases Toward AI-Generated Poems Abstract: AI-generated art and text have become increasingly common, and increasingly sophisticated. This talk presents findings showing that AI-generated poems […]

LTT: Ken Aizawa

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title:  Hodgkin and Huxley’s Use of Singular Compositional Abduction Abstract: One of the most significant achievements of Twentieth-Century physiology was Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley’s development of theory of the […]

LTT: Arnon Levy

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: An Understanding-First view of Explanation Abstract: Jaegwon Kim wrote once that “the idea of explaining something is inseparable from the idea of making it intelligible; to seek an explanation […]

LTT: Edouard Machery

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: True Believers: The Incredulity Hypothesis and the Enduring Legacy of the Obedience Experiments Abstract: Stanley Milgram’s “obedience experiments” are among the most famous studies in social psychology, and perhaps, […]

LTT: Shan Gao

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: What Does Quantum Mechanics Tell Us about Reality? Abstract: Quantum mechanics is admittedly the most difficult subject to understand. Physicists and philosophers, let alone students and laymen, are still […]

LTT: Jacob Barandes

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: On Causal Locality in a Deflationary Account of Quantum Theory Abstract: Quantum theory can be reformulated in terms of old-fashioned configuration spaces and ‘indivisible’ stochastic laws, without a fundamental […]

LTT: Nick Huggett

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Title: The Physics of Memory Abstract: Much of the mystery of time arises from the asymmetry of past versus future: not only asymmetries themselves, such as the apparent ‘openness’ of […]