Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences, reasoning with Cases in the Socail Sciences

Friday - Saturday, 11-12 November 2011
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required. To register, please contact pittcntr@pitt.edu.

1:40	Coffee
2:00 pm	Introduction Mary Morgan and Sandra Mitchell
2:10	Session: Why Context Matters Sandra Mitchell Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Denise Rousseau Heinz College and Tepper School of Buisness Carnegie Mellon University
4:10 - 4:30	Coffee
4:30 - 5:30	General Discussion

Saturday Morning

8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00	Session: Reasoning in Cases, Reasoning from Cases Mary S. Morgan Department of Economic History London School of Economics Kathleen Blee Department of Sociology University of Pittsburgh
11:00	General Discussion
12:00	Lunch

Saturday Afternoon

1:30 pm	Session: Effects of Causes and Causes of Effects Sharon Crasnow Department of Philosophy Norco College Andrew Bennett Department of Government Georgetown University
3:30	Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:30	Commentators and General Discussion Jim Woodward Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Rachel Ankeny School of History and Politics Adelaide University

Program Committee

Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
Mary Morgan, London School of Economics

Sponsors

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
The Harvey and Leslie Wagner Endowment
British Academy/Wolfson Foundation (Research Project: 'Rethinking Case Studies Across the Social Sciences')