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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><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our 65th Annual Lecture Series Talk. Attend in person in room 1008 in the Cathedral of Learning (10th Floor) or visit our live stream on YouTube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>The Annual Lecture Series, the Center’s oldest program, was established in 1960, the year when Adolf Grünbaum founded the Center. Each year the series consists of six to eight lectures, about three quarters of which are given by philosophers, historians, and scientists from other universities.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>ALS – </span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Thomas Ryckman</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="x_Signature"><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Friday, September 27 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Title: Niels Bohr: Transcendental Physicist</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Abstract:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>While it would be unwarranted to label Bohr as “neo-Kantian” or indeed adherent of any philosophical school, his understanding of quantum theory crucially employs an intricate transcendental argument. Bohr deemed the quantum postulate, or “wholeness” of interaction between agency of measurement and atomic system, to call into question a core epistemological distinction between subject and object familiar in the concept of ‘observation’ from everyday life and classical physics. Re-conceptualizing that distinction led to redefinition of the term ‘phenomenon’, a corresponding non-representationalist account of the wave function, and to situating the notion of objectivity within “conditions of the possibility of unambiguous communication”.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Zoom at <a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/s/99943669767"><span style='color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>https://pitt.zoom.us/s/99943669767</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>YouTube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg"><span style='color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>