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Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Birmingham)4:30 – 6:30 EST, Wednesday, Nov 17th Title: A Practitioner’s Guide to Pragmatic Humeanism Abstract: All Humeans hold, roughly, that laws are informative summaries of nonlawful matters of fact. Pragmatic Humeans go further: for them, what … Continue reading →

Talk by Eddy Keming Chen (UCSD) and Sheldon Goldstein (Rutgers) Abstract: The Great Divide in metaphysical debates about laws of nature is between Humeans who think that laws merely describe the distribution of matter and non-Humeans who think that laws … Continue reading →

Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech)4:30-6:30pm (ET), Wednesday, March 10 Title: Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How it (Still) Gets You Beyond the Statistics Wars Abstract: High-profile failures of replication in the social and biological sciences underwrites a minimal requirement of evidence: If little or … Continue reading →

Due to COVID-19, MAPS talks are cancelled for the remainder of the term. We are hopeful that we will be able to reschedule with the presenters for the Fall term.

David Papineau (King’s College London & CUNY)4:30-6:30pm Tuesday March 3; CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave, New York, NY), room 5307. Title: The Nature of Representation. Abstract: Teleosemantics analyses representation in terms of evolutionary history. A standard objection is that swampman’s lack … Continue reading →

Anthony Aguirre (UCSC)6:30-8:30pm Tuesday Feb 4; NYU Philosophy Department (5 Washington Place, New York, NY), 3rd floor seminar room. Title: Entropy in long-lived genuinely closed quantum systems Abstract: Physical systems are often considered “closed” or “isolated” as a convenient approximation. … Continue reading →

Anthony Aguirre (UCSC) – “Entropy in long-lived genuinely closed quantum systems”6:30-8:30pm Tuesday Feb 4; NYU Philosophy Department (5 Washington Place), 3rd floor seminar room. David Papineau (King’s College London & CUNY) – “The Nature of Representation”4:30-6:30pm Tuesday March 3; CUNY … Continue reading →

Christopher Weaver (University of Illinois)4:30-6:30pm Wednesday Nov 13; NYU Philosophy Department (5 Washington Place, New York, NY), room 202. Title: In Praise of Clausius Entropy: Reassessing the Foundations of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics Abstract: I will argue, pace a great many … Continue reading →

On October 24-26, 2019, the Rutgers Philosophy Department will be holding a conference on the Philosophy of Probability. All are welcome to attend! ===============================Rutgers Conference on Philosophy of ProbabilityLocation: Rutgers Philosophy Department; 106 Somerset St, 5th floor; New Brunswick, NJOct … Continue reading →