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::: center home >> news >> 2009-10 annual review

Director's 2009-10 Annual Review
October 2010


John D. Norton

::: Our Fiftieth Year

THIS REVIEW

New Ventures

This Past Year

PEOPLE
     Officers and Staff
          Adolf Grünbaum
          John D. Norton
             
Nicholas Rescher
          Robert Batterman
          Peter Machamer
          James Woodward
          Center Staff: Karen Kovalchick, Joyce McDonald and Carol Weber          
     The Center Community
          Erhard Scheibe, in memoriam
          Resident and Visiting Fellows
               Paulo Abrantes
               Hanne Anderson
               Claus Beisbart
               John Forge
               Malcolm Forster
               Maria Carla Galavotti
                Anil Gupta
                Andrew Irvine
               Michele Marsonet
               Jesus Mosterin
               Nancy Nersession
                Alessandro Pagnini
               Lydia Patton
               Johannes Persson
               philsci-archive
               Arto Siitonen
               Neil Tenant               
               Soshichi Uchii
               Paul Weingartner

EVENTS
    Peterfest: A Workshop in Honor of Peter Machamer
     Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets by Robert Olby Workshop
     Pitt-Paris II: Emergence and Reduction in the Sciences
     Sandra Mitchell’s Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity and Policy 2009
     Newton and Empiricism
    Annual Lecture Series
     
Lunchtime Colloquium

OTHER BUSINESS
     Renewal of Associate Membership of the Center
     Request for Feedback

 

New Ventures

It is a pleasure to report two new ventures that came to fruition last year.

Wagner Fellow in Philosophy of Risk

A generous grant from the Harvey and Leslie Wagner Foundation is enabling the Center to support the Harvey and Leslie Wagner Fellow in Philosophy of Risk. The Fellow will visit the Center in the academic year 2011-2012 and will be selected from an open-call for proposals. The Fellow will undertake original research in philosophy of risk and also organize an open call conference at the end of their year.

The Salmon Lectures

The Wesley C. Salmon Memorial Lecture Fund has been established to support an annual lecture by a prominent scholar in philosophy of science in honor of Wesley Salmon. The fund will support a lecture annually by a prominent scholar. The lecture will be given in the tradition of Salmon's work and its natural continuations. We are presently seeking our inaugural lecturer.

 

This Past Year

This past year brought the end of an era. For many years the Center has reported to James Maher, Provost. His support and encouragement have been an important factor in the flourishing of the Center. At the end of the summer 2010, Jim ended sixteen years of service as Provost. We do hope, however, that we will continue to see him. Jim has been a Resident Fellow of the Center since before his appointment as Provost and managed from time to time to slip quietly into Center events. We hope to see him more frequently. He has a personal affinity for HPS, having been an undergraduate at Notre Dame with Ernan McMullin, one of the founding figures of the field.  Jim--farewell and welcome back!

 

Our new Provost is Patricia Beeson, and we look forward to reporting our successes to her.

 

 

 

 

There were many events held during this past year--too many for me to recount them all. The details are elsewhere on our website at Conferences, Annual Lecture Series, Lunchtime Talks…  Several events, however, celebrated our local community. We held a workshop on Bob Olby's biography of Francis Crick.

 

 

 

Another workshop celebrated Sandra Mitchell's Unsimple Truths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The event of the year, however, was a celebration of Peter Machamer, organized by his former students. Peter is a presence. He has the warmest heart and gives trademark growling speeches in question time. You cannot be indifferent to him. You either love him or hate him; and everyone loves him. And that is why this event was possible, complete with a custom dance performance in his honor by his friends at Attack Theater.

Each year our visiting community seems to grow a little larger. This year we hosted eight Visiting Fellows and two Postdoctoral Fellows in our new Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Our complement was completed by one adoption: Michela Massimi was visiting in the Fall Term to teach in the Department of HPS. She was recently married to Mark Sprevak, a Visiting Fellow. The separation of the 8th and 10th floors seemed too much, so we invited her into our reading group meetings.

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PEOPLE

Officers and Staff

The Officers of the Center over this past year were Adolf Grünbaum and Nicholas Rescher (co-Chairs); John D. Norton (Director); and Peter Machamer, Ken Schaffner and Mark Wilson (Associate Directors). These Officers are responsible for the major planning and decision making in the Center. They are sometimes assisted by Resident Fellows who serve in various capacities, often on program committees for conferences. The Annual Lecture Series Committee was Ken Schaffner and Mark Wilson (co-chairs), Benny Goldberg, Peter Machamer and John D. Norton.

With the end of the year, we have two significant changes in our Officers. Ken Schaffner and Mark Wilson have ended their service as Associate Directors, although they will continue to participate in the Center as Resident Fellows. Mark will also be ex officio a member of the Center Advisory Board through his position of Chair, Department of Philosophy.

We thank you both for your service.

Their positions as Associate Directors will be taken by two new appointments on the tenth floor. Bob Batterman, in the Department of Philosophy, and Jim Woodward, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

 

Here's news from the Officers

Adolf Grünbaum

Adolf reports:

Academic Activities During 2009/2010:          
Adolf Grünbaum   

I.  Publications

A.   Books and Chapters in Books

  1. Under contract with Oxford University Press (New York), I have been engaged in the longer-term project of a two-volume work entitled Philosophy of Science in Action. I attach, as Appendix A, the Table of Contents of these two volumes.

  2. I contributed an invited chapter “Why Is There A Universe AT ALL, Rather Than Just Nothing?” to J. Shook and P. Kurtz (eds.) The Future of Naturalism, Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2009, pp. 249-268. more . .

John D. Norton

So much of my time goes into running the Center, that it is hard to believe I get time to do anything else. But looking back over the past year, I did do other things. I managed to get a few papers written on a range of topics. Bryan Roberts and I think we have finally found the right way to read an especially important and enigmatic paragraph in Galileo's Two New Sciences. I've also rejoined the debate over Landauer's Principle, urging that it still has no proper foundation. Another paper describes inductive fallacies induced by Bayesianism; and yet another gives an elementary demonstration of the incompleteness of quantum theory. For these and more, see my Web site.

There was a little too much travel in the past year. There were trips to a cosmology conference in Oxford; to Hamburg to deliver the Weizsaecker lectures; to Dublin for a plenary lecture at the British Society for Philosophy of Science; and more. The achievement that still gives me most satisfaction is my success in sailing on the rivers around Pittsburgh's Point, described in some detail on my sailing blog.

Center Staff

What makes the Center work so efficiently is our staff, Karen Kovalchick, Joyce McDonald, Carol Weber and Dennis Pozega.

At the end of the year, we said farewell to Dennis Pozega, who is returning to his homeland, Canada. For a year, he led a double life with us, and as an HPS graduate student. He was the wizard who worked magic behind the scenes at the Center's events. Our new "Dennis" is Benny Goldberg, who is also doubling as an HPS graduate student.

 

Karen Kovalchick

If you subscribe to the belief that no news is good news, then Karen had a stellar year! Actually, the big news for most of us this past year was the record 79.6 inches of snow that fell last winter, making it the 3rd snowiest winter on record for Pittsburgh. And more than 40 inches of that amount fell over two days in February, resulting in the University being closed for three days! Karen, Gabe and Gretel were delighting in being snow bound.  That came to an abrupt halt when Gabe (the Bullmastiff) tore his ACL while barreling through the deep drifts. Fortunately, the injury managed to heal well on its own, thus eliminating the need for the drastic surgery which would have been entailed otherwise. Another bullet dodged! Gretel (the mixed breed) continues to be her stalwart little self, terrorizing the neighborhood as usual.

Joyce McDonald

“It’s hard to believe the Center is 50 years old.  It seems like yesterday that we had the 40th Anniversary Lectures.”  When the Lunchtime (Talk) and Lecture Series speakers aren’t occupying her time at work, Joyce delights in sharing pictures of her new grandson, Seth, as he grows and changes.   

Carol Weber

Carol’s first and thus far only grandchild, Elizabeth, now approaching 2 years old, is a delight. Carol only wishes that Elizabeth were not 4 hours away, so they could see one another more frequently. Aside from family, Carol maintains her interests in gardening and her dogs. The whippets have always participated in athletics, lure coursing and straight racing, but more recently they have made a foray into aesthetics, conformation competition. This past year Carol campaigned Brimstone, her black whippet already a champion field courser and titled in straight racing as well, to his AKC conformation championship. Then in July, she got a puppy from Seattle, bringing the household whippet population to three.

 

The Center Community

In Memoriam
Erhard Scheibe

The Philosophy of the Physicists
Obituary Notice for Erhard Scheibe
(Brigitte Falkenburg, TU Dortmund. Translation: Michael Hallett, McGill University)

The world of philosophy, especially philosophy of science, will lament the passing on the 7 January 2010 of Erhard Scheibe after a long illness. He was 82. From 1982 until his retirement and nomination as Emeritus Professor, Scheibe was the holder of a then newly-founded Chair of Philosophy at Heidelberg, one dedicated to philosophical issues concerning the formal and natural sciences. more . . .

 

Resident and Visiting Fellows

Paulo Abrantes

Paulo organized a collection of papers in the philosophy of biology written by various Latin American philosophers and biologists (coming out in September 2010). This collection spans the main topics that are being currently pursued in the philosophy of biology. It will be published initially in Portuguese (a Spanish version is under consideration). Paulo co-authored a paper on Richerson and Boyd’s dual inheritance theory of human evolution. The preliminary results of this research were presented in the 2008 Fellows' Conference, and the 2007 and the 2009 ISHPSSB Conferences, among others.

This collection is the output of a group of Latin American philosophers of biology that was created in 2006. Those interested in the activities of the group may refer to the blog: http://grupodebogota.blogspot.com/
Paulo will be publishing two other papers forthcoming in 2010:
- "La imagen filosófica de los agentes humanos y la evolución en el linaje homínido" (in Spanish).
- “Methodological issues in the dual inheritance account of human evolution”(in English).
Paulo also co-authored a paper published in 2009:
Abrantes, P.; El-Hani, C. "Gould, Hull and the individuation of scientific theories". Foundations of Science, v. 14, n. 4, p. 295-313, novembro, 2009.

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Hanne Anderson

Hanne Andersen has become head of the Department of Science Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. To keep her busy she has also has received a grant from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities to form a research group on Philosophy of Contemporary Science in Practice. So far she has presented some of the first results from her work at the Center at the 2nd International Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (2009) and at the EPSA (2009).

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Claus Beisbart

Recent publications include:
"Can we Justifiably Assume the Cosmological Principle in order to Break Model Underdetermination in Cosmology?" Journal for General Philosophy of Science 40 (2009), pp. 175 – 205
"How to Fix Directions or  Are Assignments of Vector Characteristics Attributions of Intrinsic Properties?," Dialectica 63 (2009), pp. 503 – 524 
"Kant's Characterization of Natural Ends," Kant Yearbook 1 (2009), pp. 1 – 30
"Measuring Influence for Dependent Voters: A Generalisation of the Banzhaf Measure'', to appear in Texts in Logic and Games 2009 (with L. Bovens)
"Welfarist Evaluations of Decision Rules for Interstate Utility Dependencies," Social Choice and Welfare 34 (2010), 315 – 344 (with S. Hartmann)
"Groups Can Make a Difference: Voting Power Measures Extended," to appear in Theory and Decision; an earlier version was published in the Discussion Paper Series of the CPNSS at the LSE.

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John Forge

Forge has been awarded the David Harold Tribe award for his book The Responsible Scientist. He also won the Australian Museum's Eureka Prize in Ethics for the same book. Forge has continued to publish and talk about the morality of weapons research, and is writing a book, tentatively entitled Designed to Kill: The Case Against Weapons Research.

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Malcolm Forster

Malcolm Forster is now living in China as a result of his meeting another Fellow, Wang Wei of Tsinghua University, during their stay at the Center in 2006.  He plans to preach the Pittsburgh philosophy of science to unsuspecting PhD students at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Tsinghua University, Beijing, for the next 18 months.

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Maria Carla Galavotti

Maria Carla Galavotti is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bologna. She has been “Visiting Fellow” at a number of institutions, including the Department of Philosophy of Princeton University, the Center for the Study of Language and Information of Stanford University, the Centre for Time of the University of Sydney. She spent two terms in the academic year 1989-90 at the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science, and went back for shorter visits many times. more . . .

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Anil Gupta

He reports: "I spent last summer at the Research School of Social Sciences of Australian National University, and had a highly stimulating and productive stay there. For the current calendar year, I am on an NEH fellowship, and I am working on a book on conscious experience."

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Andrew Irvine

Andrew Irvine is close to completing his final year as Governor at the University of British Columbia. His anthology, Philosophy of Mathematics, appeared recently in the Elsevier Handbook of the Philosophy of Science series.

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Michele Marsonet

Michele Marsonet is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Philosophy Department of the University of Genoa, Italy. After having served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts (2002-2008), he is now Head of the Philosophy Department and Vice-Rector for International Relations of the University of Genoa. For recent publications see his Center Web page.

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Jesus Mosterin

Among my academic activities in the last 12 months, I would mention: the lecture “Form, Information and the Ontology of Culture” at the Congress of the Institut International de Philosophie (IIP) in Coimbra (Portugal) on September 10, 2009; the seminar at the Center for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science of the State University of Campinas  (UNICAMP) in Sao Paulo (Brazil) on December 2-5, 2009; and the eleven-lecture international course on Formal Sciences at the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Lima, Peru) on April 12-16, 2010.

Among my recent publications are the papers “Social factors in the development of genetics and the Lysenko Affair” (In E. Agazzi and others (Eds.), Epistemology and the Social, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008, pp. 143-155) and “Rescher’s evolutionary epistemology” (in Robert Almeder (ed.), Rescher Studies, Heusenstamm: Ontos, 2008, pp. 241-253). This last paper is especially relevant here, as it concerns the Center Co-Chairman Nicholas Rescher. My last books in Spanish include: Lo mejor posible: Racionalidad y acción humana. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2008. La cultura humana. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 2009. Finally, Los cristianos: Historia del pensamiento. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2010.

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Nancy Nersession

Nancy Nersessian has received a new $1M research grant from NSF to investigate the computational modeling practices of integrative systems biologists. She was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and has a new book co-authored with her research group due out in 2010 with Cambridge U. Press, Science as Psychology: Sense Making and Identity in Science Practice, Lisa Osbeck (former Pitt. Fellow), Nancy J. Nersessian, Kareen Malone, Wendy Newstetter.

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Alessandro Pagnini

He is is Associate Professor of Storia della filosofia contemporanea (History of Contemprary Philosophy) at the Department of Philosophy - University of Florence. Since 1985 he has been Director of the Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, since 2006 has been promoting partner and Vice-President of the Società Italiana per lo Studio dei rapporti tra Scienza e Letteratura (Italian Society for the Study of the relationships between Science and Literature), since 2009 has been promoting partner of the Società Italiana di Storia, Filosofia e Studi Sociali della Biologia e della Medicina (Italian Society of History, Philosophy, and Social Studies in Biology and Medicine). From 2001 to 2009 he has been a member of The Tuscan Committee of Bioethics. He is Associate Editor of the Italian philosophical journal Iride and of the European journal of philosophy and public debate Iris, and also Editor of the international journal Medicina & storia. He is contributor to the economical newspaper Il sole24ore. He is Fellow of the Pittsburgh Center since 1982.

His main interests are in philosophy of psychoanalysis and psychiatry, philosophy of medicine and biology, epistemology of the Humanities, philosophy of mind, problems of epistemological realism, history of contemporary Italian philosophy. Among his publications,  Realismo/antirealismo (Firenze 1995) and Teoria della conoscenza (Milano 1997). He recently edited Filosofia della medicina (Roma, 2010).

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Lydia Patton

I have almost made it to HOPOS 2010 in Budapest, at which I will be presenting a paper, "Hilbert's Method of Analogy," that I researched while at the Center.  I'm spending the week beforehand in Venice and Croatia, "fine-tuning the paper" (read: glancing at my paper on the table while watching the World Cup and drinking prosecco, which is how I always fine-tune papers).  Then, in the fall, I will present a version, revised according to comments at HOPOS, at the Integrated HPS conference in Indiana.

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Johannes Persson

Part of this year Johannes has been on parental leave. When at work he has been thinking about mechanisms, the philosophy of risk, and his new interest: the philosophy of interdisciplinarity. He is arranging a workshop on the latter topic in October 11-13—Peter Machamer has promisd to come—and if you are interested in participating please feel free to email him. For recent publications, see his Center Web page.

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philsci-archive

philsci-archive.pitt.edu is run by the Center for Philosophy of Science in collaboration with the University Library System.  It continues to flourish and now hosts over 2,000 preprints in philosophy of science. (Not reading philsci-archive.pitt.edu? Not posting to philsci-archive.pitt.edu? You are missing out!)

The Executive Committee presently consists of John Earman (Dept. of HPS, University of Pittsburgh), John D. Norton (Dept. of HPS, University of Pittsburgh), Zvi Biener (Dept. of Philosophy, Western Michigan University) and Justin Sytsma (Dept. of Philosophy,  East Tennessee State University).

The Archive Manager is Bryan Roberts (Dept. of HPS).

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Arto Siitonen

On my recent publications: An article on "Hans Reichenbach and his Techno-Optimism" in: Wojciech Gasparski & Timo Airaksinen (ed): Praxiology and the Philosophy of Technology, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick and London, 2008 (pp. 177 - 187); an article on "Kaila and Reichenbach as Protagonists of 'Naturphilosophie'" in: Juha Manninen & Friedrich Stadler (ed): The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries. "Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism," Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Springer, Dordrecht 2010 (pp. 135 - 152).

Present research interests: Reichenbach (still!); ethics, human rights.

Special lectures: during the spring semester 2010, I gave a special course on Nicholas Rescher's work 'Aporetics. Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency'(2009), at the University of Helsinki.

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Neil Tennant

I spent my NEH Fellowship for 2009-2010 finishing my book Changes of Mind: An Essay on Rational Belief-Revision.

I am now working on a big book on logic (a much-revised and expanded version of my book Natural Logic), and a monograph on natural logicism.

Recent articles that might be of interest to Center members are on my website.

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Soshichi Uchii

I have published a book on Darwin: Darwin's Ideas, from animals to humans, Tokyo: Iwanami, August 2009. Related with this, I delivered a lecture on Darwin, for the Darwin Bicentenary Conference in Korea: "The Evolution of Darwin's Evolutionary Thinking", Seoul, July 3, 2009. Another lecture for the Society of Evolutionary Studies (Japan), "Tracing Darwin's Evolutionary Thinking", Sapporo, September 5, 2009 (public lecture).

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Paul Weingartner

He has sent us an updated CV at his Center Web page.

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EVENTS

The events of the past year are recorded in greater detail in the Center website. For an informal account of some of them, see the "donuts" page and for photos, "photo album."

Major events of the past year included the following conferences and workshops:

Peterfest: A Workshop in Honor of Peter Machamer
Saturday, 24 October 2009

Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets by Robert Olby Workshop
Friday, 20 November 2009

Pitt-Paris II
Emergence and Reduction in the Sciences

Friday - Sunday, 11 - 13 December 2009

Sandra Mitchell’s Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity and Policy 2009
University of Chicago Press Workshop
Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Newton and Empiricism
Saturday - Sunday, 10-11 April 2010

 

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Speakers in the Annual Lecture Series were:

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame

Hasok Chang, University College London

Robert Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins University

Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University

Edda Thiels, University of Pittsburgh

C. Kenneth Waters, University of Minnesota

Catherine Wilson, University of Aberdeen

 

Speakers in the Lunchtime Colloquia were:

Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Philosophy

Natalie Gold, Visiting Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Slobodan Perovic, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carleton University

Lisa Damm, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego

Lydia Patton, Visiting Fellow, Virginia Tech, Department of Philosophy

Drozdstoj Stoyanov, Visiting Fellow, Medical University of Plovdiv, Department of Health Care Management

Mark Sprevak, Visiting Fellow, King's College, Cambridge

Athanassios Raftopoulos, Visiting Fellow, University of Cyprus, Department of Philosophy

John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science, Department of History & Philosophy of Science

Alan Baker, Swarthmore College, Department of Philosophy

André Carus, Open Court Publishing

Michela Massimi, Visiting Faculty, University of Pittsburgh, Department of HPS and
University College London, Department of Science and Technology Studies

Robert Rupert, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Philosophy

Wayne Wu, The Ohio State University, Department of Philosophy

Tadeusz Szubka, Szczecin University

Meinard Kuhlmann, University of Bremen

Susan Sterrett, Duke University

Mariafranca Spallanzani, University of Bologna

Tomasz Placek, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Allan Walstad, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Department of Physics

David Danks, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Philosophy

Wayne Myrvold, Talbot College, University of Western Ontario

Wolfgang Pietsch, Technical University of Munich, Department of Philosophy

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OTHER BUSINESS

Renewal of Associate Membership of the Center

May we take this opportunity to remind Center Associates that their appointments are for three years. Re-appointment is not automatic. If your three-year Associate's appointment is expiring or has expired and you would like to renew it, please let us know through email to the Assistant Director, Karen Kovalchick, rubus@pitt.edu. Your appointment will then be renewed for a further three years. If you choose not to renew your appointment, your name will remain on our mailing list, so you will continue to hear news of the Center's activities, unless you request otherwise. Associates receive no compensation and have no regular duties. However, the Center views acceptance of an appointment as an Associate as a commitment to attend a few of the Center’s many activities each year. Annually, these activities include, but are not limited to, the Annual Lecture Series (6 to 8 lectures per year), special lectures, the Lunchtime Colloquium (usually meets twice a week), conferences and workshops (2 or 3), occasional social functions and occasional study groups.

Request for Feedback

Dear Reader who has had the fortitude to read through to the end of this review: We would appreciate very much some indication of whether you found this review interesting or helpful in any way--or otherwise. Drop us a short email with any remarks you care to make.

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This review would be incomplete without thanks to the many people who make the Center possible. Our thanks go to the Center Officers, who take time from their busy academic schedules to serve the Center; to the Office of the Provost of the University of Pittsburgh (including Provost James Maher and Vice Provost George Klinzing), whose support is both visionary and unflagging; to the Visiting Fellows, who populate the Center each year with new energies and new ideas; and to the many who come to give talks, to hear talks, to enliven discussion, and to keep an eye on the donuts.

As Director, my personal thanks go to the staff -- Karen, Joyce, Carol and Dennis. Only someone who has carried the responsibility of an office like the Center's can truly appreciate just how much depends upon the energy and dedication of the staff. A Director can imagine what might be, but the staff are the ones who make it happen. They take vaguely formed suggestions and turn them into letters, phone calls, Web sites, meetings, and much more. They know when there is trouble coming before I see it. They make sure that every one of our events is carried off flawlessly. I take an unearned pride in our successes. They too take pride in these successes, but they have earned it. My thanks to them for another great year!

John D. Norton
Director

 
 
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