<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
invites you to join us for our 65th Annual Lecture Series Talks. All
lectures will be held in room 1008 in the Cathedral of Learning (10th
Floor) at 3:30pm EDT. If you can't join us in person please visit our
live stream on YouTube at <a id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-OWAa102ed68-7aa2-8a31-c4b7-b526178d7a1e" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a>.</div><div id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-x_x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"></div><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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 lectures, about three quarters of which are given
by philosophers, historians, and scientists from other universities.</div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><u>Maureen Lichtveld</u></b></span></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,sans-serif" id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-docs-internal-guid-85061629-7fff-c56f-6539-db87a3210c1d">University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health</span></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Friday, January 31 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT</div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Title: Risk Benefit Analyses in Public Health: Whose risk? Whose benefit?</b></div><div id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-x_x_x_x_Signature"><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Abstract: </b>Risk
benefit analyses (RBA) are conducted to inform policy decisions and
public health advice. Approaches to conduct an RBA include a multistep
process, such as how to assess quality and uncertainty, evaluate
confidence in the potential conclusions of an RBA, identify relevant
factors that are additive to the findings of an RBA, and discuss any
implications or applications that may inform policy decision making.
Given the complexities of an RBA, it can be difficult to know when or
when not to conduct and RBA relative to risk-benefit factors.</div><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This
presentation will highlight a stepwise framework assessing four key
areas when evaluating when or when not to conduct a formal risk-benefit
analysis including 1) summarizing the existing evidence via a systematic
review of existing literature, 2) reviewing the validated approaches,
metrics, and frameworks within the literature,3) reviewing sufficiency
of contextual factors (i.e. geography, access, and community capital) to
contribute to the confidence of a RBA and 4) assessing the quality and
confidence of the overall RBA evaluation to inform policy decisions.
This RBA feasibility assessment framework can serve as a
decision-making tool to characterize individual and community risks and
benefits. The presentation will also highlight ethical and equity
factors informing the final decision making.</div><p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><font size="4"><b><u>Alyssa Ney</u></b></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,sans-serif" id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-docs-internal-guid-85061629-7fff-c56f-6539-db87a3210c1d">UC Davis </span></p><div><div style="width:100%;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;max-width:800px;min-width:424px" id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly9zaXRlcy5nb29nbGUuY29tL3NpdGUvYWx5c3NhbmV5Lw.."><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Friday, February 21 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT</div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Title: Local Branching in Everettian Quantum Mechanics.</span></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Abstract: </span>In
contemporary philosophy, the fundamentality of physics and physicalism
are typically understood as ontological completeness claims of some
sort. For example, physics is taken to provide a complete supervenience
or realization basis, or a complete set of grounds for all facts or
entities. However, since no formulated physical theory provides a
complete ontological basis for all facts or entities, one must seek an
alternative interpretation if one wants a realistic understanding of the
sense in which our current physical theories are fundamental. The aim
of this paper is to develop such an interpretation, one that bases the
fundamentality of our current physical theories in a claim about their
ontological depth and comprehensiveness. It is argued that this
interpretation of the metaphysical fundamentality of physics is more in
line with the way that physicists regard certain theories as fundamental
than standard philosophical conceptions.</div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="line-height:1.2;margin:0pt 0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><u>Samir Okasha</u></b></div><div style="line-height:1.2;margin:0pt 0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-docs-internal-guid-f80fce11-7fff-39a1-aec1-09e2d5cf93a1"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,sans-serif" id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-docs-internal-guid-fa454540-7fff-ee69-4c01-f41af3b7054e">University of Bristol, U.K.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-docs-internal-guid-f80fce11-7fff-39a1-aec1-09e2d5cf93a1"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p></div><div style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Friday, March 21 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT</div><div style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Title: </span><b>The “Philosophy of Fitness” revisited</b></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Abstract: </span>The
"philosophy of fitness'' was a disparaging name given to the philosophy
of biology in the 1970s by critics who felt that practitioners of this
emerging sub-discipline spent too much time analyzing the concept of
fitness, to the exclusion of other topics. Despite the critics, the
philosophical discussion of fitness has burgeoned since then. Oddly,
though, this discussion makes little contact with the technical
literature on fitness in evolutionary theory itself, where there are
ongoing disagreements over what the "right" definition of fitness and /
or the "right" mathematical measure of fitness is, in different
contexts, and why. The existence of parallel literatures on a single
topic is not uncommon in philosophy of science but is rarely ideal.
Better integration is needed.</div><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This
talk is part of a broader project that re-visits the concept of
fitness, tries to make sense of the controversies surrounding it, and to
integrate the philosophical and biological discussions. The basic idea
is to regard "fitness" as a theoretical term in science, and then to use
the Ramsey-Carnap-Lewis technique to define it via its theoretical
role. However, the situation is complicated by the fact that there is
arguably more than one "fitness role". Moreover, in any particular
evolutionary model, a given quantity, definable from the model
parameters, may realize one of these fitness roles but not others. Taken
together, this explains why the fitness concept has caused so much
confusion, why the term "fitness" is polysemic in evolutionary biology,
and why theorists can disagree about the "right" fitness measure despite
the underlying science not being in dispute.</div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><br></i></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>A reception with light refreshments will follow each Talk in The Center on the 11<sup>th</sup> floor from 5-6pm</i></div><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">All lectures will be live streamed on YouTube at <a style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;text-align:left" id="m_3383147033294638277gmail-OWA23e489a3-f62c-e394-0566-b3e4c2fc9292" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a>.</div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(12,100,192)"><i><br><br></i></div></div></div>
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