October Lunchtime Talks at the Center for Philosophy of Science

Description

The Center for Philosophy of Science is hosting a virtual Lunchtime Talk Series during October 2020. We welcome you to attend these talks. Registration is required, please use the links below to register.

Speaker: James Woodward
Affiliation: Department of HPS, University of Pittsburgh
Date/Time: Friday, October 2nd, 2020 at 12PM Eastern Time
Title: Flagpoles, Anyone? Independence, Invariance and the Direction of Causation
Registration Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ky9mJLfcQDmwfxX9wy_EaA


Speaker: Mak Pedroso
Affiliation: Center VF
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 12PM Eastern Time
Title: Wicked Nature: Coping with Uncertainty through Redundancy.
Registration Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T-Z7lis2QqSLhbvhVRQnrg


Speaker: Diane O’Leary
Affiliation: Center VF
Date/Time: Friday, October 16, 2020 at 12PM Eastern Time
Title: Making Philosophical Sense of Medicine’s Position on Mind and Body
Registration Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DdjHmqsNQ5mpAlcoWamrQg


Speaker: Ed Slowik
Affiliation: Center VF
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 12PM Eastern Time
Title: A Note on Kant as Precursor of Mach: Reconsidering Kant’s "Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science" from a Huygensian Frame
Registration Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H0Xxw_YDRqaaW_NQJe1yYw


Speaker: Nic Fillion
Affiliation: Center VF
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 12PM Eastern Time
Title: The Cogency of Arguments Involving Approximations
Registration Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KHPk9mCNRGOESTGHeskKdg


Speaker: Mike Schneider
Affiliation: Center VF
Date: Friday, October 30, 2020 at 12PM Eastern Time
Title: Stabs in the Dark Sector
Registration Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DbLCsyAGQH-V9sk0i_2RmQ
October 2, 2020
October 30, 2020
This online seminar series has ended.

Sponsoring institution

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh