Schedule
PITT-CMU Graduate Conference 2013
FRIDAY, APRIL 5TH:
Location: Margaret Morrison 103, Carnegie Mellon University
3:30-3:45PM Introduction
3:45-5:15PM Panel I: Models and Mechanisms
Lane Desautels: Mechanisms & Chance: Toward a Propensity-backed Account of Stochastic Mechanism
Archie Fields III: The Many Meanings of Success and the Failures of Fictions
5:15-5:30PM Coffee Break
5:30-7:00PM Panel II: Causation and Explanation in Neuroscience
Walter Stepanenko: Mechanisms and Levels in Neuroscience: Surveying the Prospects for an Account of Downward Causation
Nina Atanasova: Perspectival Pluralism in Experimental Neurobiology
8:30PM Conference Party
SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH:
Location: Adamson Wing, Baker 136, Carnegie Mellon University
10:00-11:30AM Panel III: Knowledge and Justification
Alex Kaiserman: Against Level-Connections for Justified Belief
David Black: Defending Dogmatism; Dismissing Defeaters
11:30-1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00-4:00PM Keynote and Faculty Talks:
David Danks: Causal perception, interventionism, and causal laws in science
Timothy Williamson: Gettier cases in epistemic logic
4:00-4:15PM Coffee Break
4:15-5:10PM
Michael Nielsen: Against non-causal model explanation
5:20-6:15PM
Dominic Alford-Duguid: Varieties of Attention
