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::: center home >> events >> conferences >> 2018-19 >>Norton for Everyone

Norton for Everyone?
October 27 -28, 2018
Center for Philosophy of Science
1008 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Of potential interest to participants: On Friday, October 26, 3:30PM: Hasok Chang will speak in the HPS Lecture Series.

PROGRAM

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Saturday Talks, Oct. 27
1008 CL

8:00

Breakfast

9:00

Speaker 1: Elay Shech (Auburn University)
“Historical Inductions Meet the Material Theory”

9:50

Speaker 2: Molly Kao (University of Montreal)
“Induction and Deduction in the Context of Pursuit”

10:40

Coffee Break

11:00

Speaker 3: Jonathan Livengood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Debunking Induction”

11:50

Speaker 4: Leah Henderson (University of Groningen) “Norton at the Boundaries of Probability”

12:40

Lunch on your own

2:00

Speaker 5: Richard Dawid (University of Stockholm)
“The Material Inductivist, the Bayesian, and Complete Ignorance”

2:50

Speaker 6: Michel Janssen (University of Minnesota)
"The trouble with I in IBE”

3:40

Coffee Break

4:00

Speaker 7: Wendy Parker (Durham University)
"Inferring the Best Explanation of 20th Century Climate Change"

4:50

Speaker 8: David Wallace (University of Southern California) “Quantum Inductive Logic and the Everett Interpretation”

 

Sunday Seminars, Oct. 28
1008 CL

8:00

Breakfast

9:00

Part I: The Proposal
Led by Balazs Gyenis (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Eric Hatleback (Carnegie Mellon University)

10:30

Coffee Break

10:45

Part II: The Virtue Critique
Led by Siska De Baerdemaeker (University of Pittsburgh), Dasha Pruss (University of Pittsburgh)

12:15

Lunch on your own

1:30

Part III: The Bayes Critique
Led by Jonathan Bain (New York University) and Nora Boyd (Siena College)

3:00

Coffee Break

3:15

Part IV: The Puzzle Cases
Led by Bryan Roberts (London School of Economics) and Jeremy Butterfield (University of Cambridge)

4:45

Concluding Remarks

5:00

Adjourn




Organizing Committee:
John Earman, Bryan W. Roberts, Elay Shech

For more info:
Joyce McDonald pittcntr@pitt.edu, Bryan W. Roberts b.w.roberts@lse.ac.uk, Elay Shech ezs0038@auburn.edu

 

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