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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%">This talk will be available online: Zoom:
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%">Contemporary science is increasingly organized around templates (Humphreys 2002, Knuutila and Loettgers 2014). Especially in model-based disciplines, formal templates (equations, algorithms, network topologies,
games, etc.) are repeatedly used for model construction. An open question concerns the processes through which new formal templates are developed and subsequently integrated into the existing repertoire. In this paper, I propose an account of what I call “formal
template accumulation” in science and show how model transfer can be understood in terms of this accumulation process. Drawing on a case study from game theory, I argue that formal templates serve as high-level problem-solving tools, and that their evolving
repertoire underpins model construction and transfer across diverse scientific fields.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt"><b>Daniel Wilkenfeld</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt">Friday, October 31st @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%;font-weight:700">Title: Moral Distress as a Kind</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%">Within nursing (and other healthcare) ethics, researchers often talk about “moral distress”. However, there is disagreement over how narrowly or broadly to define the construct, with options ranging from
this construct only applying when someone knows the right action but is prevented from taking it by external constraints, to being any psychological distress experienced adjacent to a moral event. In this talk I explore how philosophy of science (and some
other fields) can shed light on this question, specifically by investigating whether moral distress is best thought of as a real kind, whether the evolution of moral distress (the concept) is an example of appropriate open-textured conceptual change, and whether
we should be lumpers or splitters about different phenomena that could fall under this particular same heading. (Spoiler alert: yes, no, and splitters.)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%">In physics, each spacetime theory presupposes a specific mathematical space used as a spacetime model. For example, spacetime in general relativity is typically considered a (3+1)-Lorentzian manifold that
is Hausdorff, time-orientable, and so on. The choice of one such structure over another is usually guided by the dynamics, that is, by answering the question: Is the proposed structure sufficiently rich to account for the physical entities and dynamical equations
of our theories? But how do we ensure, for example, that no surplus structure is postulated? A straightforward answer is: through experiment. However, how can we test such spacetime structures or properties? What are the limitations of such experiments?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%">This puzzle is not new to philosophy. Historically, the question about the epistemic access to the spacetime structure has been famously raised, for example, by Helmholtz (1868, 1896), Reichenbach (1924,
1928), and Poincare? (1902). More recent contributions include those by Gru?nbaum (1973), Sklar (1974), van Fraassen (1970), and Dewar et al. (2022). As the authors of the last article point out, however, this debate has been largely neglected in recent decades
in favor of metaphysical controversies, such as the relationism-substantivalism debate.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%">In this talk, I revise spacetime epistemology from an angle of contemporary physics. Crucially, unlike in the aforementioned discussions on spacetime epistemology which focus either on metrical structure
or on dynamical equations, I extend the question of testing spacetime properties to non-metrical spacetime structures, such as topology or differentiable structure.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%">Therefore, the aim of this presentation is to examine how to test various properties of spacetime at different levels of its structure – such as orientability at the topological and metric levels – by
outlining a systematic overview of such experiments, focusing on their limitations, and indicating possible directions for the further development of the epistemology of spacetime.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt"><b>Joseph McCaffrey</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.4pt;line-height:150%">Since the 19th Century, neuroscientists have fiercely debated the extent of functional localization in the human brain. But instead of being a passing phase, debates about functional localization are raging
in contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Some consider functional localization a vital guiding paradigm for the science while others believe it has outlived its usefulness. To make matters worse, localizationists and anti-localizationists do not seem to agree
on what a commitment to localization entails, or what counts as evidence against localization. In this talk, I present a conceptual analysis of functional localization that highlights three dimensions or tenets of localization:
<i>structural specialization</i>, <i>localization of function</i>, and <i>intrinsicality</i>. I then show how this analysis can be used to clarify and advance contemporary debates about functional localization in cognitive neuroscience.</span></div>
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