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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Please post the following talks:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talks. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Attend in person, Room 1117 on the 11<sup>th</sup> floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>visit our live stream on YouTube at </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>LTT – Jim Woodward</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Tuesday, March 14th @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Title: The Wordly Infrastructure of Causation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Abstract: This talk is based on joint work with Naftali Weinberger and Porter Williams. It<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>will describe an alternative to currently dominant philosophical approaches to the metaphysics of causation. It is motivated by the gap that currently exists between metaphysical accounts and recent epistemological research on causal reasoning and methods for discovering causal relationships. Our approach aims at characterizing structural features of the actual world that support, and are exploited by, successful strategies for causal reasoning and discovery. We call these features the “worldly infrastructure’’ of causation. We identify several elements of this worldly infrastructure, sketch an account of their physical bases, and explain how they contribute to the possibility of successful causal reasoning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>LTT – Deepanwita Dasgupta</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Friday, March 17th @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Title: Replacing STEM with Natural Philosophy: Reconfiguring the Science/Philosophy Relationship<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Abstract: The idea of this project is to seek to replace the current notions of STEM with the classical ideal of natural philosophy and to see if a contemporary form of natural philosophy could be evolved in our present-day teaching and research contexts. The broad idea here is to cultivate an interface that is neither just STEM nor just Humanities but something in between. I claim that STEM is more a function of our current need for big capital in scientific research and the urgency to create a professional workforce rather than science per se in the sense of curiosity and understanding. STEM thus thrives on its separation from other houses of thought but produces in the end only short-term projects focused on expertise. Such projects need to be supplemented by wisdom-based projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This replacement ideal is next articulated under three different heads – first, by creating some teaching modules that follow a hybrid pattern, spreading between the arts and the sciences. I try this approach in Chemistry, which is currently taught mainly via physics. Instead, I think Chemistry should be seen as an interface to understand all change and transformation phenomena in nature, thus appealing to our practical as well as to our aesthetic instincts. It also links Chemistry with its origins in many craft traditions and with many traditional bodies of knowledge. The second is to see if ethical and responsible conduct in research (ERCR) courses could be taught by using projects of creative imagination. The third, and the most difficult part, is to try to build alliances with various traditional bodies of knowledge, which might hold different ontologies but perhaps could co-operate in the contexts of creating sustainable ways of life. I end by giving some examples of such sustainability from the work of Sonam Wangchuk, an Indian engineer and innovator, currently active in Ladakh, India.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Spacetime Functionalism Conference</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Cathedral of Learning 1008, April 1st-2nd</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Keynote Speakers:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Christian Wuthrich (Geneva)</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>David Albert (Columbia)</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Tushar Menon (Cambridge)</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Dave Baker (Michigan Ann Arbor)</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Eleanor Knox (King’s College London)</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Jim Weatherall (UC Irvine)</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Katie Robertson (Birmingham)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Please Register Here: </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424'><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RnR1EwQzhBakOMQ--heOFUFLbgQgDOiX0xz7nKMQRaA/edit"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Spacetime Functionalism Conference Registration – Google Forms</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Will not be streamed but some lectures will appear on the site after the conference.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>