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Online LectureLiam Bright, London School of Economics Scientific Conclusions Need Not Be Accurate, Justified, or Believed by their Authors (This talk is being given by Liam Bright and was coauthored by […]
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Liam Bright, London School of Economics Scientific Conclusions Need Not Be Accurate, Justified, or Believed by their Authors (This talk is being given by Liam Bright and was coauthored by […]
Michael Dietrich, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Dept. of HPS The Politics of Embryology: Johannes Holtfreter’s Flight from Nazi Germany ABSTRACT: Johannes Holtfreter was forced to leave Nazi Germany. Unlike other exiled […]
Mark Wilson, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh How “Wavelength” Found its Truth-Values ABSTRACT: Philosophers of science and metaphysicians frequently declare that they are only interested in the “fundamental part” […]
CANCELLED Subrena Smith, Univ. of New Hampshire, Dept. of Philosophy Constructing Human Behavior ABSTRACT: Behavioral sciences purport to give descriptive accounts of human beings as behavioral systems. Those accounts have […]
Yolonda Wilson, National Humanities Center Fellow & Encore Public Voices Fellow Empathy and Structural Injustice in the Assessment of Patient Noncompliance ABSTRACT: It is well established that health status is […]
James Woodward, Univ. of Pittsburgh Dept. of HPS Flagpoles, Anyone? Independence, Invariance and the Direction of Causation This talk will be a Zoom webinar and registration is required. Registration link: […]
Mak Pedroso, Center Visiting Fellow Wicked Nature: Coping with Uncertainty through Redundancy This talk will be held via Zoom and pre-registration is required. Registration link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T-Z7lis2QqSLhbvhVRQnrg ABSTRACT: In their struggle […]
Diane O'Leary, Center Visiting Fellow Making Philosophical Sense of Medicine’s Position on Mind and Body This talk will be held via Zoom and pre-registration is required. Registration link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DdjHmqsNQ5mpAlcoWamrQg ABSTRACT: […]
Ed Slowik, Center Visiting Fellow A Note on Kant as Precursor of Mach: Reconsidering Kant’s "Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science" from a Huygensian Frame This talk will be held via […]
Nic Fillion, Center Visiting Fellow The Cogency of Arguments Involving Approximations This talk will take place via Zoom and pre-registration is required. Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KHPk9mCNRGOESTGHeskKdg ABSTRACT: In philosophy, we spend […]
Mike Schneider, Center Visiting Fellow Stabs in the Dark Sector This talk will be held via Zoom and pre-registration is required. Registration link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DbLCsyAGQH-V9sk0i_2RmQ ABSTRACT: ?CDM, our current theory of […]
Antonella Tramacere, Research Fellow at Mississippi State University, Associate Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and Appointed Research Fellow at the University of Bologna […]
Simon DeDeo, CMU & the Santa Fe Institute Explosive Proofs of Mathematical Truths This will be on online lecture via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_l0jdzxEDTSupgpaXzkJwZw ABSTRACT: Justifications […]
Edouard Machery, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science and Pitt HPS Are Perverse Incentives Responsible for the Replication Crisis? This will be an online talk via Zoom and […]
Roberto Fumagalli, King’s College London We Should Not Use Randomization Procedures to Allocate Scarce Life-Saving Resources This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register […]
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 […]