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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The Center for Philosophy of Science invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talks and register for the upcoming conference.</p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Attend in person or visit our live stream on YouTube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a>. </p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal>LTT – John Michael</p><p class=MsoNormal>Tuesday, February 28th @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST </p><p class=MsoNormal>11th Floor of the Cathedral of Learning </p><p class=MsoNormal> </p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Title: The Sense of Commitment in Joint Action: Towards a Comparative Perspective</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Abstract: Recent research provides evidence that, in the context of joint action, individuals’ sense of commitment sustains their motivation to persist in performing actions which their joint action partners are expecting and may be relying on them to perform. I will provide an overview of this research and discuss its implications for philosophical discussions about the normativity of joint action. I will also present a new line of research investigating individual and cultural differences with respect to the sense of commitment and offer some reflections about what we can infer from these differences.</p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br></p><p class=MsoNormal>LTT – Arnon Levy </p><p class=MsoNormal>Friday, March 3rd @12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST </p><p class=MsoNormal>11th Floor of the Cathedral of Learning </p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br></p><p class=MsoNormal>Title: Inductive Risk and Value Freedom, Revisited</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Abstract:Work on the role of values in science has grown and diversified dramatically in the 21st century. But there is a near-consensus on one basic point, namely the value-ladeness – that is, ladeness with social, moral and political values – of all aspects of the scientific process, including “core” aspects like the bearing of evidence on hypotheses. My goal in this talk is to buck this trend and argue for a somewhat old-fashioned view about the relation between science and values: science-based decision making is best carried out by separating factual assessments from value judgments, and a healthy division of labor assigns the former task primarily to scientists. I argue for this view by taking a new look at the debate over inductive risk, both in its original form (Rudner, 1953; Jeffrey, 1956) and in more recent incarnations (Douglas 2000, 2009; Elliott 2011; Steele 2012; Parker and Winsberg, 2017).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Spacetime Functionalism Conference</p><p class=MsoNormal>Cathedral of Learning 1008, April 1st-2nd<br><br>Spacetime Functionalism holds that spacetime is spacetime by virtue of the role it plays with respect to other physics. It promises to help with certain interpretational puzzles, including some of those arising in quantum gravity. But the exact kind of functionalism involved, the extent to which it is helpful and the role itself are all contested. This conference aims to make progress on these questions.</p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br></p><p class=MsoNormal>Keynote Speakers:</p><p class=MsoNormal>Christian Wuthrich (Geneva)<br>David Albert (Columbia)<br>Tushar Menon (Cambridge)<br>Dave Baker (Michigan Ann Arbor)<br>Eleanor Knox (King’s College London)<br>Jim Weatherall (UC Irvine)<br>Katie Robertson (Birmingham)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please Register Here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RnR1EwQzhBakOMQ--heOFUFLbgQgDOiX0xz7nKMQRaA/edit" target="_blank">Spacetime Functionalism Conference Registration – Google Forms</a></p><p class=MsoNormal>This conference will not be streamed live.</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>