<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-8464596078418358231m_5430595958700108343gmail-divRplyFwdMsg"><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our upcoming lectures in room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. If you are unable to join us in person, all lectures will be live streamed on YouTube at</span><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" id="m_-8464596078418358231m_5430595958700108343gmail-OWA84ca18b4-c610-9dc5-824a-f00834ce4afe" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a></span><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">.   </span></div></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div><p style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px;padding-bottom:10px;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:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Lunch Time Talk - Lucy Mason - </span><a href="https://www.lucymason.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">https://www.lucymason.co.uk/</span> </a></p><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Tuesday, December 2nd @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm</b></span></div><h2 style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:"Aptos Display";font-size:13pt;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(24,90,189)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This talk will be available online:  Zoom: </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,74,255)"><a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93490558315" id="m_-8464596078418358231m_5430595958700108343gmail-OWA90d36b44-9e44-c5f3-7f4a-68dd8c969efa" title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93490558315" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93490558315</a></span></h2><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:700">Title: Methodological Intersubjectivity</span></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:700">Abstract:</span></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px 0px 16px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><br></span></div><h1 style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px;padding-bottom:10px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Lunch Time Talk - Armin Schulz - </span><a href="http://arminwschulz.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal">http://arminwschulz.com/</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:normal"> </span></a></h1><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px"><b>Friday, December 5th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm</b></span></div><h2 style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:"Aptos Display";font-size:13pt;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(24,90,189)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This talk will be available online:  Zoom: </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,74,255)"><a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94110795330" id="m_-8464596078418358231m_5430595958700108343gmail-OWA5462a2a9-43f9-a635-7b89-60b9ba951a8e" title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94110795330" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94110795330</a></span></h2><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:700">Title: Agency: The Case for an Eliminative Pluralism</span></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-weight:700">Abstract:</span></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.8;margin:0px 0px 16px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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></div></div>
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