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Online LectureAdolf 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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Kareem Khalifa, Middlebury College Re-tooling the Epistemology of Measurement This will be an online lecture held via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BKMs1HLSRc2gBhxjbXeW8w ABSTRACT: Recent philosophical work on […]
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The Lost Generation of Philosophers of Science: An Illustration Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh ABSTRACT: WWII derailed many philosophers of science from their career track. A most interesting example of […]
Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness W Tecumseh Fitch, Dept of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT: Recent scientific discussions of consciousness have been dominated by the search for […]
Can Meaningless Statements be Approximately True? On the Semantic Component of Scientific Realism Darrell Rowbottom, Lingnan University, Center Visiting Fellow ABSTRACT: This paper argues that statements may be approximately true […]
Human Achievement and Artificial Intelligence Brett Karlan, University of Pittsburgh, HPS ABSTRACT: Shortly after the deep neural network AlphaGo defeated Go grandmaster Lee Sedol in a series of matches in […]
Lise Vesterlund, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh Gender Differences in Task Allocations: Cause and Effect Women and men are shown to hold different work assignments, with […]
Identifying Future-Proof Science Featured Former Fellow Lunchtime Talk: Peter Vickers, Durham University This will be an online event. Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HRqsVLWNS-u0Q_2puihG_Q ABSTRACT: My forthcoming book Identifying Future-Proof Science argues […]
Aydin Mohseni, UC Irvine, Center Post-Doc Fellow HARKing: from Misdiagnosis to Misprescription ABSTRACT: The practice of HARKing---hypothesizing after results are known---is commonly maligned as undermining the reliability of scientific findings. […]
What is the relationship between Gibbsian and Boltzmannian statistical mechanics? Relatedly, how should Gibbsian statistical mechanics and Boltzmannian statistical mechanics be interpreted? Is Gibbsian statistical mechanics or Boltzmannian statistical mechanics […]
Konrad Werner, University of Warsaw, Poland Defining Institutions: A Shared Objective of the Social and Cognitive Sciences ABSTRACT: There is consensus in the field of economics (economic history) and the […]
Heather Douglas, Michigan State, Center Senior Fellow Rethinking the Social Contract for Science ABSTRACT: The dominant way of thinking about the relationship between science and society has been a “social […]
Hyundeuk Cheon, Seoul National University, Center Visiting Fellow Explicating the Principle of Explicability ABSTRACT: In this talk, I attempt to explicate the principle of explicability for artificial intelligence (AI). While […]
Sara Green, University of Copenhagen Philosophy of Science as Visioneering Assessment: The Case of Precision Medicine ABSTRACT: Biomedical science is not only driven by theoretical achievements and technological developments, but […]
Featured Former Fellow Lunchtime Talk: Yann Benetreau-Dupin, University of Western Ontario This will be an online event. Is Reading Peer Review a Good Idea? ABSTRACT: After a few years as […]
Brian McLoone, Higher School Economics, Center Visiting Fellow How Should We Think about Models with Impossible Assumptions? ABSTRACT: This talk will be about complications that emerge when one renders a […]
Somogy Varga, Aarhus University, Center Visiting Scholar The Aim of Medicine ABSTRACT: Recent debates about the scope and societal role of medicine raise fundamental questions about its aim. The main […]
Nick Huggett, LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago Quantum Gravity on a Tabletop? ABSTRACT: The characteristic – Planck – energy scale of quantum gravity is utterly […]
Matthew Parker, University of Western Ontario, Center Visiting Fellow What Counts as Evidence in a Vast Universe? ABSTRACT: Ziv has a psychological theory and claims that an experiment has confirmed […]
Simon DeDeo, Carnegie Mellon/Santa Fe Institute Consilience and Epistemic Values in the Royal Society ABSTRACT: Consilience, the idea that scientific knowledge should draw together disparate phenomena into common frameworks, is […]
This talk has been moved to online-only. Anthony Beavers, University of Evansville, Center Visiting Fellow Concerning a Machine Command Theory of Ethics ABSTRACT: In this presentation on meta-ethics, I will […]
Featured Former Fellow Lunchtime Talk: Erik Curiel, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy This will be an online event. Math Does Not Represent ABSTRACT: On the standard---almost universally (albeit often only […]
A public talk in partnership with with the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Words like “nothingness” and “empty space” may seem like simple concepts, referring to the […]
Adolf Grünbaum 2022 Memorial Lecture James Owen Weatherall, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine The Philosophy Behind Dark Matter Abstract: According to the Standard Model of Cosmology, […]
Ravit Dotan, University of California Berkeley, Center Postdoc Fellow Participatory AI Ethics Governance ABSTRACT: I am designing a new approach for AI ethics governance, based on meaningful stakeholder participation. Currently, […]
The New Modern Medicine Description: In this local online workshop, guests will respond to themes and work-in-progress from Jonathan Fuller’s current book project, titled The New Modern Medicine. This monograph explores characteristic […]
Cordelia Fine, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne Fairly Criticised or Dangerously Politicised? Conflicts in Sex/Gender Science Conflicts in the Neuroscience of Sex Differences in the Human […]
Edouard Machery, Distinguished Professor of HPS, University of Pittsburgh Formal Modeling in Philosophy of Science - Let’s be realistic! ABSTRACT: In recent years, formal models have become increasingly important in […]