The Shapes of Scientific Understandig

Workshop: The Shapes of Scientific Understanding
November 9, 2026 | 14:00–18:30
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the workshop “The Shapes of Scientific Understanding,” to be held on Monday, November 9, 2026, from 14:00 to 18:30 at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

The workshop will bring together philosophers working on the nature, structure, and varieties of scientific understanding.

Speakers:

• David Barack (Carnegie Mellon University): Scientific Understanding and Evidence;
• Alfredo Vernazzani (TU Dortmund / University of Pittsburgh): Scientifically Unintelligible Phenomena;
• Daniel Wilkenfeld (University of Pittsburgh): On the Unity between Quantitative and Qualitative Understanding.

Discussant: 

• Kareem Khalifa (UCLA)

Commentators for each talk will be announced soon.

Attendance is free and open to all.

For further information, please contact Alfredo Vernazzani at [email protected].

We hope you will join us for an afternoon of discussion on the different shapes that scientific understanding can take.