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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 […]

CBS Seminar: L. Smolin

Online Lecture

Temporal Naturalism ABSTRACT: I discuss the progress of a research program called temporal naturalism, whose aim is to reframe naturalism and relationalism based on the hypotheses that time is fundamental, while […]

ALS: J. Ioannidis

Online Lecture

John Ioannidis Stanford University Reproducible and Useful Research: Changing Research Practices ABSTRACT: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that a substantial segment of published research yields results that are not credible […]

LTT: E. Shumener

Online Lecture

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 […]

CBS Seminar: C. Smeenk

Online Lecture

Decoupling from the Initial State? ABSTRACT:  According to inflationary cosmology, the universe passed through a transient phase of exponential expansion that leaves several characteristic imprints in the universe’s post-inflationary state. […]

LTT: K. Dorst

Online Lecture

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 […]

CBS Seminar: F. Dowker

Online Lecture

If Time Had No Beginning ABSTRACT:  Could the universe have had no beginning? I don’t mean, in raising this question, to deny or throw doubt on Big Bang cosmology and […]

LTT: K. Stanton

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: N. Huggett

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: R. Nefdt

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: R. Van Bork

Online Lecture

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 […]

ALS: E. Landry

Online Lecture

Elaine Landry University of California, Davis, Department of Philosophy As-ifism: Mathematics and Method without Metaphysics Zoom webinar.  Pre-registration is required.  Please register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iYWEBu-gRMCVQwzUtfYIDg ABSTRACT: I aim to carve out […]

LTT: D. Wenner

Online Lecture

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. […]

LTT: C. Weaver

Online Lecture

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 […]

LTT: H. Rubin

Online Lecture

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 […]

ALS: M. Massimi

Online Lecture

Adolf Grünbaum 2021 Memorial Lecture Michela Massimi The University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences Natural Kinds on Neurath’s Boat This talk will be held as a […]

LTT: M. Schneider

Online Lecture

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 […]