LTT: R. Van Bork
Online LectureRiet 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 […]
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ALS: E. Landry
Online LectureElaine 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 LectureDanielle 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 LectureChristopher 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 LectureHannah 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 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 […]
LTT: M. Schneider
Online LectureMike 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 […]
LTT: K. Khalifa
Online LectureKareem 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 […]
PSP5
Online LecturePittsburgh Summer Program for Underrepresented Groups. This is not a public event. Learn more here
LTT: N.Rescher
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe 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 […]
LTT: W.T. Fitch
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesEvolutionary 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 […]
LTT: D. Rowbottom
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCan 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 […]
LTT: B. Karlan
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesHuman 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 […]
ALS: L. Vesterlund
1008 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesLise 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 […]
FFF: P. Vickers
Online LectureIdentifying 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 […]
LTT: A. Mohseni
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesAydin 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. […]
The Center Debates: Gibbs vs Boltzmann
Online LectureWhat 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 […]
LTT: K. Werner
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesKonrad 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 […]
LTT: H. Douglas
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesHeather 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 […]
LTT: H. Cheon
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesHyundeuk 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 […]
ALS: S. Green
Online LectureSara 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 […]
FFF: Y. Benetreau-Dupin
Online LectureFeatured 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 […]
LTT: B. McLoone
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesBrian 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 […]
LTT: S. Varga
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesSomogy 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 […]
LTT: N. Huggett
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesNick 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 […]
LTT: M. Parker
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesMatthew 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 […]
LTT: S. DeDeo
1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesSimon 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 […]
LTT: A. Beavers
Online LectureThis 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 […]
FFF: E. Curiel
Online LectureFeatured 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 […]
Science Revealed — Nothingness: So much to talk about!
Online LectureA 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 […]