<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our upcoming lectures. All lectures will be live streamed on YouTube at </span><a id="m_-3952868960136585603m_-6962051923869688492gmail-OWAf9ec7cc0-fb1d-53a1-795c-7fa07709ac65" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" target="_blank" style="font:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">.   </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h1 style="direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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)">Featured Former Fellow –</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,41,82)">Michael Tomasello</span></h1><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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">Tuesday, October 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST</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 Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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;letter-spacing:0.5px"><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 Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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;letter-spacing:0.5px">This talk is <b><i>online-only</i></b>. Follow along via Zoom: </span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,41,82);letter-spacing:0.5px"><a id="m_-3952868960136585603m_-6962051923869688492gmail-OWA35a0d9fc-173c-6377-a058-938081e245e4" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/96906545761" title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/96906545761" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,41,82)" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/96906545761</a></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 Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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"><br></span></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bolder;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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);letter-spacing:0.5px">Title:</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-hei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t;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;direction:ltr;letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bolder;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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)">Abstract:  </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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)">Complex systems research has shown that many systems of different types and at different scales exhibit similar features. These include robust behavioral regularities that can be described without referencing system specifics, variability in how systems accomplish these regularities, and interdependence among system elements. In this talk, I will explore implications of these developments for our very concept of causation. Specifically, I will conjecture that the model of causation as isolated direct influence, like billiard balls, is deeply misleading. The association of causation with pushing, inherited from the mechanistic philosophy that reined in Newton’s day, is reinforced by contemporary science’s experimental practices and causal modeling techniques. Yet, consideration of the uses and limitations of these contemporary techniques supports a different conception of causation, what we might think of as a causal mesh. The persistence of the conception of causation as pushing obscures the expansiveness of causal relevance and, as a result, is virtually inapplicable to the complex systems that comprise our world.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;direction:ltr;letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px;direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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);letter-spacing:0.5px"><i>A reception with light refreshments will follow in The Center on the 11th floor from 5-6pm.</i></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px;direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,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);letter-spacing:0.5px"><i><br></i></span></p><br></div></div>
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