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Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Fallacy of Calibrationism
Yoaav Isaacs,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Baylor University,
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Understanding "why": The role of causality in cognition
Tobias Gerstenberg,
Assistant Professor in Psychology,
Stanford University,
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Nothing is real, but thank God it's epistemic
Mario Hubert,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Aristotelian Mechanics in the Renaissance
Mark Schiefsky,
Visiting Associate in Philosophy, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics, Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Premodern roots of modern subjectivity
Gabriel Motzkin,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Causal Simulation
Thomas Icard,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Interferon Tournament: Credit Markets and Economies of Honor in the First Age of Biotech
Nicolas Rasmussen,
Professor, Programs in History and Environment & Society,
School of Humanities and Languages,
University of New South Wales,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation
Simon Hutteger,
Professor of Philosophy,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Data Science of Human Heredity… Decades before Mendel
Theodore M. Porter,
Distinguished Professor of History & Vice Chair for Academic Personnel,
UCLA,
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Visiting Newton's Atelier Before the "Principia," 1679-1684
Michael Nauenberg,
Professor of Physics, Emeritus,
UC Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Language-based Games
Joseph Halpern,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Professor, Computer Science Department, Cornell University,
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Historical Foundations of Free Market Fundamentalism
Naomi Oreskes,
Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Hard Problem of Intertheoretic Comparisons
Jennifer Carr,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Measurement and Ontology
Jeff Barrett,
Chancellor’s Professor,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Explanation in Contexts of Causal Complexity: Lessons from Psychiatric Genetics
Lauren Ross,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Principle of Stability
Sam Fletcher,
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science,
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Bayesian Pursuit of Truth: On an Influential and yet Underappreciated Solution to the Problem of the Priors
Hanti Lin,
Assistant Professor in Philosophy,
UC Davis,
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Campanella, Galileo, and the Clash for the New Science at the Court of Pope Urban VIII
Stefano Gattei,
Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology,
The Huntington Library,
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Food of our Food: Medicated Feed and the Industrialization of Metabolism
Hannah Landecker,
Associate Professor of Sociology,
UCLA,
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Stein's paradox and group rationality
Jan-Willem Romeijn,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy,
University of Groningen - Netherlands,
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Between the Sun and the Earth: The Recent History of Heliophysics and Space Weather
Gregory Good,
Historian of Earth Science and Director of the Center for History of Physics,
American Institute of Physics,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic Epistemic Risk
Boris Babic,
Weisman Postdoctoral Scholar Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Newton as a Philosophical Geometer: The Example of the Two Revolving Globes
Monica Solomon,
Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy,
USC,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A Paradigm Shift in Slow Motion: On the History of Gravitational Waves
Alexander Blum,
Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Associate in History of Science, Caltech,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors and Models of Moral Cognition
Eric Schwitzgebel,
Professor of Philosophy,
UC Riverside,
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