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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><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 invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talk. Attend in person, Room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh or visit our live stream on YouTube at </span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a></span></u><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'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>LTT: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0056AC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Tushar Menon</span></b><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'>Tushar discusses his work here at the Center: </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Tt_RTH9Yo&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1IPSoFzdUw4rF_qLQx02BvJbkIgHZbARTQzlcimIo8nJYwTyIwjY-roek_aem_R-Wf874jTOM9lBc8qMs50g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Tt_RTH9Yo</a></span></b><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><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Friday, October 4 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Title: Scientific realism as a normative notion (twice over)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Abstract:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'> The semantic component of standard scientific realism—sometimes called semantic realism—is the view that the semantic treatment of scientific-theoretical terms should be the same as that of observational terms. This is to be understood, roughly, as the claim that theoretical claims are descriptive just as observational claims are. But standard semantic realism does not say anything about why we are right to treat observational claims as descriptive in the first place. In this talk, I argue that the justification of the descriptive deployment of observational terms is best understood from a normative pragmatist perspective, in terms of what we can use such discourse to do. I thus construe semantic realism as the claim that this is also the way to assess the correctness of the descriptive deployment of scientific-theoretical terms. I then argue that descriptive deployment is itself to be understood normatively, in terms of a Sellars-Brandom-style inferentialism. The upshot is (i) that we can do much more justice to the impulses that motivate scientific realism, and (ii) assess the relative merits of scientific realism across a wider domain of scientific theories (in particular mathematised physics) if we understand it in this doubly normative sense.</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;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>This talk will also be available live streamed on: Zoom: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0056AC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/s/93846460443"><span style='color:#0056AC'>https://pitt.zoom.us/s/93846460443</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> and</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;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>YouTube at </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0056AC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg"><span style='color:#0056AC'>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><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>