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CogOnt Seminar: M. Anderson/P. Cisek

Online Lecture

          Mike Anderson (Western University) & Paul Cisek (University of Montréal), Two Approaches to Reforming the Taxonomy of Cognitive Neuroscience Part of our ongoing online seminar […]

LTT: Mak Pedroso

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: Diane O’Leary

To Be Determined

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:  […]

CogOnt Seminar: V. Bergeron/J. Gomez-Lavin

Online Lecture

        Part of our ongoing online seminar series.  See the full list of talks here. Register using this link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KMNKu4fmQ9Wh5ZjvXJ3qQA Please note, registration will be for the […]

LTT: Ed Slowik

Online Lecture

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 […]

ALS: M. Haber

Online Lecture

Matt Haber University of Utah, Department of Philosophy The Species Problem Problem and the No Solution Solution This talk will be online via Zoom and pre-registration is required. Register here:  […]

LTT: Nic Fillion

Online Lecture

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 […]

CogOnt Seminar: B. Bruya/J. Haas

Online Lecture

        Part of our ongoing online seminar series.  See the full list of talks here. Register using this link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KMNKu4fmQ9Wh5ZjvXJ3qQA Please note, registration will be for the […]

LTT: Mike Schneider

To Be Determined

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 […]

CogOnt Seminar: J. Sullivan

Online Lecture

          Jackie Sullivan (Western University), “Cognitive Ontologies, Epistemic Communities and Coordinated Pluralism” Part of our ongoing online seminar series.  See the full list of talks here. […]

ALS: L. Vesterlund

Online Lecture

CANCELLED Lise Vesterlund University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics Gender Differences in Task Allocations: Competition and Volunteering This talk will be online via Zoom and pre-registration is required. Register here:  […]

LTT: Antonella Tramacere

Online Lecture

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 […]

CogOnt Seminar: Y. Kenett/M. Viola

Online Lecture

          Part of our ongoing online seminar series.  See the full list of talks here. Register using this link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KMNKu4fmQ9Wh5ZjvXJ3qQA Please note, registration will be for […]

LTT: Simon DeDeo

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: Edouard Machery

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: Roberto Fumagalli

Online Lecture

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 […]

CogOnt Seminar: J. McCaffrey

Online Lecture

          Joe McCaffrey (University of Nebraska, Omaha), Atlas of the Mind: Neural Degeneracy and Pluralistic Ontologies Part of our ongoing online seminar series.  See the full […]

CogOnt Seminar: C. Craver

Online Lecture

          Carl Craver (Washington University), “Remembering: Epistemic and Empirical” Part of our ongoing online seminar series.  See the full list of talks here. Register using this […]

The Center Debates: COVID-19

Online Lecture

  Episode 2: COVID-19 Jonathan Fuller, University of Pittsburgh Dept. of HPS Marc Lipsitch, Harvard University, Dept. of Epidemiology The second installment of Center Debates, Center Debates: COVID-19, will provide […]

ANCESTRY: EVIDENCE, INFERENCE, AND IDENTITY

Online Lecture

Art courtesy of Lynn Fellman* The aim of this virtual conference is to bring together anthropologists, biologists, historians, and philosophers of science to address the concept of ancestry in relation […]

LTT: Wayne Wu

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: M.Jacquart

Online Lecture

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 […]

CBS Seminar: N. Huggett

Online Lecture

Laws for Nowhere Abstract: The standard concept of law is, I suggest, significantly spatiotemporal, posing the question of how there can be laws in non-spatiotemporal theories, and most pointedly how […]

LTT: N. Byrd

Online Lecture

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 […]

CBS Seminar: C. Wüthrich

Online Lecture

Laws Beyond Spacetime Abstract: Quantum gravity's suggestion that spacetime may be emergent and so only exist contingently would force a radical reconception of extant analyses of laws of nature. Humeanism […]

LTT: John D. Norton

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: K. Zollman

Online Lecture

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 […]

CBS Seminar: F. Vidotto

Online Lecture

Quantum Gravity in Practice Abstract:  I present a recent concrete calculation in Spinfoam Cosmology -the application of the covariant LQG techniques to the cosmos- as an example to discuss a […]

LTT: P. Palmieri

Online Lecture

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... […]

LTT: S. Smith

Online Lecture

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 […]