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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Title: A Critique of the Argument from Inductive Risk Abstract: The argument from inductive risk states that scientists should consider the consequences of their hypotheses and methodological choices in the […]

Title: Where counting counts: Supporting a particle interpretation of particle physics Abstract: There is a general consensus among philosophers of physics that quantum field theory (QFT) does not admit of […]

Title:  Delusions as Cognitive-Affective Complexes Abstract: Delusions are defined in the DSM-5 as “beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence” (American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and […]

Title: How to build a mind without working memory: a computational approach to cognitive architecture Abstract: I want to argue that there’s something deeply wrong with the dominant thread running […]

Title: The Pragmatism of C.S. Peirce and R.B. Brandom as a Frame for Modeling Entrepreneurship Abstract: The science of entrepreneurship has a surprisingly long history, dating from Richard Cantillon’s Essai […]

Title: Perception and Preference in Poetry: Biases Toward AI-Generated Poems Abstract: AI-generated art and text have become increasingly common, and increasingly sophisticated. This talk presents findings showing that AI-generated poems […]

Title:  Hodgkin and Huxley’s Use of Singular Compositional Abduction Abstract: One of the most significant achievements of Twentieth-Century physiology was Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley’s development of theory of the […]

Title: An Understanding-First view of Explanation Abstract: Jaegwon Kim wrote once that “the idea of explaining something is inseparable from the idea of making it intelligible; to seek an explanation […]

Title: True Believers: The Incredulity Hypothesis and the Enduring Legacy of the Obedience Experiments Abstract: Stanley Milgram’s “obedience experiments” are among the most famous studies in social psychology, and perhaps, […]

Title: What Does Quantum Mechanics Tell Us about Reality? Abstract: Quantum mechanics is admittedly the most difficult subject to understand. Physicists and philosophers, let alone students and laymen, are still […]

Title: On Causal Locality in a Deflationary Account of Quantum Theory Abstract: Quantum theory can be reformulated in terms of old-fashioned configuration spaces and ‘indivisible’ stochastic laws, without a fundamental […]

Title: The Physics of Memory Abstract: Much of the mystery of time arises from the asymmetry of past versus future: not only asymmetries themselves, such as the apparent ‘openness’ of […]

Title:  A Historical Case Study in Philosophical Conversation: J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) & Julian Huxley’s (1887-1975) Social Values in a Scientific Worldview Abstract: Rhetoric about the meaning of empirical work in […]

Title: Probabilism Under Scrutiny: Grappling with the Weight of Evidence Abstract: Probabilism, the philosophical view that the role of probability is to capture degrees of belief, support, confirmation, or plausibility […]

Title: Peirce Disappears: C.S. Peirce and Early Logical Empiricism Abstract: Scholars of the history of philosophy of science read and hear a lot about Duhem, Mach, Poincaré, and the members […]

Title: A Commitment Account of Norm Externalisation Abstract: It has been argued that moral norms fundamentally differ in character from conventional norms. One of the distinctive features of moral norms […]