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Spacetime Functionalism Conference

1008 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Spacetime Functionalism Conference Cathedral of Learning 1008, April 1st-2nd Spacetime Functionalism holds that spacetime is spacetime by virtue of the role it plays with respect to other physics. It promises […]

LTT: Matthias Michel

Title: Validity drifts in psychiatric research Abstract: I develop the notion of validity drift and apply it to psychiatric research. A validity drift occurs when, in the course of developing […]

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 […]

The Center Debates: Intention and Agency in Mind and Brain

Dan Burnston (Center for Philosophy of Science, Philosophy Department at Tulane University) and Wayne Wu (Philosophy and the Neuroscience Institue CMU) to participate. Intention and Agency in Mind and Brain! […]

SPP 49th Annual Meeting, 2023

1008 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The 2023 meeting of SPP will be held at the University of Pittsburgh on June 20-23. Registration for the conference is here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/society-for-philosophy-and-psychology-annual-meeting-2023-registration-616545753947 Registration includes an option to add a pre-conference, […]

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 […]

FFF: Nicholas Maxwell

Online Lecture

Title: The World Crisis – And What To Do About It Abstract: Humanity faces two fundamental problems of learning: learning about the universe, and learning how to become civilized.  We […]

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 […]

ALS – Alex John London

1008 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: Epistemic Diversity, Ethics, and the Optimal Timing of Clinical Trials Abstract: Ethically acceptable research with human participants should satisfy at least two ethical criteria: it should produce sufficient social […]

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 […]

Wesley C. Salmon Memorial Lecture

1008 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Godel Meets Laplace There’s an understanding of what determinism entails illustrated by the familiar image that Laplace gave us of a demon that can predict everything that will happen in […]

FFF: Agnes Bolinska

Online Lecture

Title: Understanding Integration: Lessons from Integrative Modeling in Structural Biology Abstract: Although the value of integrative research has been widely acknowledged, philosophers have yet to develop a comprehensive understanding of […]

ALS – Cailin O’Connor

1008 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title:  Why Natural Social Contracts are Not Fair Abstract: Many theorists have employed game theory to model the emergence of stable social norms, or natural “social contracts”.  One branch of […]

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, […]

Rethinking Anomalies in Science

1119 Cathedral of Learning

Organizing Committee Members: Michael R. Dietrich, (University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science) John Norton (University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science) Carol Cleland (University of Colorado Boulder) […]

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, […]

FFF: Adrian Wuthrich

Online Lecture

Title: Characterizing a Collaboration by Its Communication Structure Abstract: I present first results of my analysis of a collection of about 24,000 email messages from internal mailing lists of a […]

ALS – Alan C. Love

1008 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title:  The Biological Trait Concept and Character Identity Mechanisms Abstract: Biologists frequently talk about characters, traits, features, phenotypes, and parts to pick out those aspects of cells, organisms, and populations […]

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 […]

FFF: Ioannis Votsis

Online Lecture

Title: Are Universal Criteria of Analogical Reasoning Hopeless? Abstract: One of the most common forms of reasoning in science is reasoning by analogy. Roughly speaking, such reasoning involves the transposition […]