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 philosophical commitments led him to a causal interpretation of classical mechanics. I argue that Hamilton’s metaphysics of causation was injected into his dynamics by way […]

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 underrepresented or minority groups are less likely to be cited, leading to citation gaps. Though this phenomenon has been well-studied, one limitation of empirical work […]

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 will discuss empty space, as it appears in the physical foundations of relativistic field theories. Of particular interest is the popular idea that there is […]

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 measurement has had a decidedly coherentist orientation. In this paper, we present two foundationalist concepts that also play a role in the epistemology of measurement. […]