<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="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;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our upcoming Talks on our live stream on YouTube at </span><span style="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;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue"><u><a title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" id="m_4930384126455249082m_635841511657438861m_-8015014535485770839gmail-OWA9661c391-d56d-6c25-f83d-bca3c94908f1" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a></u></span><span style="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;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">.  </span></font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="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;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The upcoming talks are presented by The Center for Philosophy of Science's Visiting Fellows, Andrea Roselli and Mahdi Khalili. Please take a moment and view their 5 min. videos. We will also have talks by Former Fellows, Samuel Fletcher and Clark Glymour. If you would like information about Fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year, please see the bottom of this notice.</font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:1em 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Lunch Time Talk -<u> </u></b></span><span style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,86,172)"><b><u>Andrea Roselli</u>  </b></span></font></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.2;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:1em 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_Embedde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d, they keep slipping through our metaphysical nets. In this paper, I propose a way to finally catch them. My strategy is the following: first, unlike many dualist frameworks that distinguish weak from strong emergence, I contend that either emergence entails ontological novelty or it is not emergence at all – understanding emergence requires us to reconsider how new properties, behaviors, and laws manifest without being reducible to pre-existing elements; then, I will propose a thought experiment based on Conway’s game of life to get an immediate intuitive grasp of the emergent beasts we are after; finally, I will explore various metaphysical implications of such emergent properties, the relationship between emergence and causation, and the broader ramifications for fields such as physics, biology, and cognitive science. Through this exploration, I aim to clarify the criteria necessary for identifying true emergent phenomena and provide a robust framework for understanding their place in the ontological structure of the universe.</font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Lunch Time Talk - </b></span><span style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,86,172)"><b><u>Mahdi Khalili</u></b></span></font></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Mahdi's 5 Minute Video: </span><span style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(70,120,134)"><b><u><a title="Original URL: https://youtu.be/krZMpqW-CC8. Click or tap if you trust this link." id="m_4930384126455249082m_635841511657438861gmail-OWA77239b60-af3d-b8ef-0c3b-ecf08dee3c19" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://youtu.be/krZMpqW-CC8" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/krZMpqW-CC8</a></u></b></span></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div id="m_4930384126455249082m_635841511657438861m_-8015014535485770839gmail-LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2VudGVycGhpbHNjaS5waXR0LmVkdS9mZWxsb3dzL2toYWxpbGktbWFoZGkv" style="border:0px;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;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;width:800px;max-width:800px;min-width:424px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font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 explain why that part of <em style="box-sizing:inherit">The Direction of Time</em> is a brilliant disaster that attempted to formulate principles connecting probability with causality. I will describe some ways in which I think what he wrote has been widely misunderstood, including the distinction between “contexts of discovery” and “contexts of justification.” Most importantly, I will describe the tension he recognized–but his commentators have not–between “the Principle of the Common Cause” and “conjunctive forks,” and his rather desperate attempt to resolve that difficulty</font></p><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Information about 2026 - 2027 Fellowships</font></b></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> If you would like information about our Fellowships please visit our websites. Applications will open late Fall.</font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Postdoctoral Fellowships: </b><a title="https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/postdoc-fellowships/program-overview/" id="m_4930384126455249082m_635841511657438861m_-8015014535485770839gmail-OWA5a1803fa-9d8a-83c6-3c49-1abaef8f0ad3" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/postdoc-fellowships/program-overview/" style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/postdoc-fellowships/program-overview/</a></font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Visiting Fellows Program:</b> <a title="https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/visiting-fellows/program-overview/" id="m_4930384126455249082m_635841511657438861m_-8015014535485770839gmail-OWAf18ed362-a361-e128-6e0f-b397ee1c58f0" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/visiting-fellows/program-overview/" style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/visiting-fellows/program-overview/</a></font></div><div style="border:0px;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;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);di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