lunchtime colloquium 2009-10 and other talks

September 2009

::: The Problem of Progress
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh , Department of Philosophy
Friday, 11 September 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Frames and Decisions
Natalie Gold, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Examining the Limits of Physics: Experimental Diversity Versus the Physics of Big Experiments
Slobodan Perovic, Postdoctoral Fellow
Carleton University
Friday, 25 September 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Emotions as Multimodal Constructs
Lisa Damm, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

October 2009

CANCELLED ::: What to Do If You Want To Defend a Theory You Can't Prove: Maxwell's Method of Physical Speculation CANCELLED
Peter Achinstein, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 2 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Two Challenges for the Unification of Electromagnetism and Optics
Lydia Patton (Visiting Fellow), Virginia Tech, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 6 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: The Quest for Scientific Proof in Psychological Medicine
Drozdstoj Stoyanov (Visiting Fellow), Medical University of Plovdiv, Department of Health Care Management
Friday, 9 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Does a Rock Perform Every Computation?
Mark Sprevak (Visiting Fellow), King's College, Cambridge
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Can Nonconceptual Content be Stored in Visual Memory?
Athanassios Raftopoulos (Visiting Fellow), Univiversity of Cyprus, Department of Philosophy
Friday, 16 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

:::Cosmology and Inductive Inference: A Bayesian Failure
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh , Center for Philosophy of Science, Department of History & Philosophy of Science
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Science-Driven Mathematical Explanation
Alan Baker, Swarthmore College , Department of Philosophy
Friday, 30 October 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

November 2009

::: Engineers and Drifters: Carnap's Ideal of Explication and its Critics
André Carus, Open Court Publishing
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: 'Carving Nature at Its Joints'. Natural Kinds, Kantian Kinds, and the Problem of Induction
Michela Massimi, Visiting Faculty, University of Pittsburgh, Department of HPS and
University College London, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Friday, 6 November 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

::: Do Group Cognitive States Play a Causal-Explanatory Role?
Robert Rupert, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

December 2009

::: Explanatory Models of Schizophrenia: Self-Monitoring and Auditory Hallucination
Wayne Wu , The Ohio State University, Department of Philosophy
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

January 2010

February 2010

March 2010

April 2010