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<span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Lunch Time Talk - David Barack
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<b>Tuesday, November 11th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm</b></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Join us in person in room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. </span></h2>
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This talk will be available online: Zoom: <span style="color:rgb(20,24,39)">
<a title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98752433663" id="m_892117132225675099m_-7055283278217398870OWA1921a387-e44c-6e64-343b-5df296d25a8f" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98752433663" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98752433663</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Title: Neural Doctrines</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Abstract:</span></div>
<div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Much contemporary philosophy seeks to answer the question, what is disease? Yet, more so than ‘disease’ attribution, diagnosis is one of the central concerns of medicine, and philosophers have only just begun to articulate and offer answers to problems of medical diagnosis that should be field-defining for the philosophy of medicine. What is diagnosis? And what is its purpose? Some have argued that diagnosis aims to causally explain the ills that bring people to medical attention, as an answer to a ‘why?’ question. I offer an instrumentalist alternative, in which diagnosis is an answer to a ‘what’s wrong?’ question that seeks to usefully classify medical conditions to achieve instrumental benefit. Understanding the nature and aim of diagnosis will allow us to clarify several concepts currently receiving much-deserved medical and societal attention such as diagnostic error, diagnostic excellence, and overdiagnosis.</span></p></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Annual Lecture Series – Jonathan Fuller -</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>
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<b>Friday, November 14th @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EST</b></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Join us in person in room 1008 on the 10th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. </span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This talk will also be streamed through Zoom:
</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,86,172);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(20,24,39);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99923676453" id="m_892117132225675099m_-7055283278217398870OWAa0aa7917-ccfb-4314-edcc-4228e9fed252" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99923676453" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99923676453</a></span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,86,172);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Title:
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700">What’s in a diagnosis? Towards a philosophy of diagnostic medicine</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bolder">Abstract: </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Much contemporary philosophy seeks to answer the question, what is disease? Yet, more so than ‘disease’
attribution, diagnosis is one of the central concerns of medicine, and philosophers have only just begun to articulate and offer answers to problems of medical diagnosis that should be field-defining for the philosophy of medicine. What is diagnosis? And what
is its purpose? Some have argued that diagnosis aims to causally explain the ills that bring people to medical attention, as an answer to a ‘why?’ question. I offer an instrumentalist alternative, in which diagnosis is an answer to a ‘what’s wrong?’ question
that seeks to usefully classify medical conditions to achieve instrumental benefit. Understanding the nature and aim of diagnosis will allow us to clarify several concepts currently receiving much-deserved medical and societal attention such as diagnostic
error, diagnostic excellence, and overdiagnosis.</span></p>
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<p style="direction:ltr;margin:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i>A reception with light
refreshments will follow in The Center on the 11th floor from 5-6pm.</i></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Tuesday, November 18th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Join us in person in room 1117 on the 11th floor.</span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">This talk will be available online: Zoom:<a title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93343893801" id="m_892117132225675099m_-7055283278217398870OWAe7dd63ea-f659-5f2f-41ed-7c0f8cd4ee2a" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93343893801" target="_blank">
</a></span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;color:rgb(51,74,255)"><a title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93343893801" id="m_892117132225675099m_-7055283278217398870OWAed2c1373-e9ff-767f-b9f4-ee1e1a1ee5e6" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93343893801" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93343893801</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:700">Title: Mechanisms & Machine Metaphors in Psychiatry</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">The concept of ‘mechanism’ is ubiquitous in psychiatric research and practice – yet its intended meaning is often underspecified. While more minimal New Mechanist accounts avoid the conceptual baggage of machine metaphors
and analogies, I argue that the ambiguous usage of mechanism concepts in psychiatry creates a conceptual void which prompts defaulting to intuitive machine metaphors and associated interpretive tendencies. Specifically, we see an uninterrogated drift from
appeals to mechanistic structures and processes to models and explanatory frameworks implicitly structured by this thicker, metaphorically-laden understanding of mechanism. I will then trace the implications of this for psychiatric research methodology, clinical
assessment, and patient self-conception – illustrating how the deterministic and reductionistic tendencies often associated with biogenetic accounts of mental disorder emerge not from the accounts themselves, but rather from the machine-metaphor framework
through which they are interpreted. I will conclude by proposing an alternative framework to counteract some of the problematic associations of this dominant metaphor.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Friday, November 21st @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">This talk is <b><i>online-only</i></b>. Follow along via Zoom:
</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;color:rgb(20,24,39)"><a title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97096992508" id="m_892117132225675099m_-7055283278217398870OWA7d8374ec-f4c9-7b3e-f2c9-12a1bf015de5" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97096992508" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97096992508</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:bolder">Title:</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:bolder">On the Limits of AI-driven Discovery in Science</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">There has been much enthusiasm among the public general about recent developments in AI. The enthusiasm is echoed among scientists, culminating in the Nobel Prize for AlphaFold. In this paper, I want to dampen this enthusiasm
slightly and articulate limits on attempts to make AI-driven scientific discoveries – understood as discoveries of new phenomena rather than ideas. To get a sense of the limitations of AI-driven discovery, I compare machine learning to standard scientific
instrumentation and argue that the much-discussed opacity of machine learning restricts our ability to distinguish signal from noise. This constitutes a problem for both “target-specific” and “target-unspecific” learning regimes, but especially for the latter
– arguably the more promising regime for the discovery of yet unknown phenomena – and gives rise to what I call the Aggravated Artifact Problem.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">This talk is <b>online-only</b>. Follow along via Zoom:
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Tuesday, December 2nd @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Join us in person in room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. </span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;color:rgb(51,74,255)"><a title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93490558315" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93490558315" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93490558315</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:700">Title: Methodological Intersubjectivity</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">The practical methodology of performing measurements undoubtedly makes important contributions to creating intersubjective agreement between scientific agents. Intersubjectivity has become a question of interest for understanding
relational, perspectival, or agent-based interpretations of physical theories (such as relativity and quantum mechanics), which face the challenge of explaining intersubjective coordination between perspectives. It is hence important to examine what bearing
methodological intersubjectivity has on these issues. I will define methodological intersubjectivity, drawing on the ideas of intersecting and interlacing from the perspectival realism literature but applying it to individual physical perspectives rather than
scientific communities. As a case study, I will apply this definition to time measurements in relativistic theories, looking at how time measurements are globally coordinated, at how we construct artificial perspectives, and at the inferences needed to produce
agreed-upon time values. This will highlight the role of agency in creating intersubjectivity and the difficulties of modelling this within physics.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Friday, December 5th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;color:rgb(51,74,255)"><a title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94110795330" href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94110795330" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94110795330</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:700">Title: Agency: The Case for an Eliminative Pluralism</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px">Concepts of agency are invoked in many different sciences, from evolutionary biology to computer science and economics. In order to understand and assess the work in these sciences, therefore, it is crucial to understand
these appeals to “agency.” To make progress in this, this paper makes the case for three interrelated conclusions. First, the best way to understand the question about the nature of agency is as an account that lays out defensible scientific uses of the concept
of agency—not a purely metaphysical-philosophical account, or a purely interpretationist account. Second, the paper seeks to show that there is not one right answer about what an agent is—that is, we should be eliminativists about the general concept of agency.
Third, though, it also shows that this should not be conflated with the view that anything goes as far as agency is concerned: in specific scientific contexts, such as economics and biology, there are more and less defensible views of agency in that context.
That is, we should be scientific pluralists about agency.</span></div>
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