<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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)">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 style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue"><u><a title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" class="gmail-x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWA6db71a89-cb53-40b0-9786-1ec362557988" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a></u></span>.    </div><div id="gmail-x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></div><div dir="ltr" id="gmail-x_x_x_divRplyFwdMsg" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></div><div id="gmail-x_x_x_x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></div><div id="gmail-x_x_x_x_x_x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr">If you would like information about Fellowship positions for the 2026-2027 academic year, please see the bottom of this notice.</div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><b>Lunch Time Talk -  Clark Glymour</b></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;max-width:800px;min-width:424px"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Tuesday, April 8th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT</b></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><br></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Can’t make it in-person? This talk will be available online through the following:  </span><span style="color:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;border:0px;font-weight:bolder;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94045293838" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk203657" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94045293838" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Zoom – https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94045293838</a></span></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.2;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><b>Title:  Hans Reichenbach, <i>The</i> <i>Direction of Time</i>, Conjunctive Forks, The Principle of the Common Cause, and Maybe Some More</b></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bolder;font-stretch:inherit;font-size: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:inherit">Abstract:  </span>I will talk about Reichenbach’s posthumous book, <i>The Direction of Time</i>. My story is a little personal because the book changed my life, I think for the better. Focusing on his “macroscopic definition” of the direction of time, I will explain why that part of <i>The Direction of Time</i> 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</div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"><b>Information about 2026 - 2027 Fellowships</b></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,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);direction:ltr"> If you would like information about our Fellowships please visit our websites. Applications will open late Fall.</div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontS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