Visiting fellows
Visiting fellows
- July 20, 2015
- Two LPS professors will pursue research at Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science fall quarter
Two LPS professors, Cailin O'Connor (top) and James Weatherall (right), have been
appointed visiting fellows at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for the Philosophy of Science for fall 2015. The center is one of the most important and active locations for
the exchange of ideas in the philosophy of science.
Pitt is also home to the Archive for Scientific Philosophy, which houses a large number
of documents related to 20th century philosophy of science.
Weatherall plans to spend the time in Pittsburgh working on how and whether relativity
puts constraints on "reasonable" differential equations for matter, and if so, whether
these constraints amount to a prohibition on superluminal propagation. He'll also
be looking at documents in the archive related to Carnap's views on instrumentalism
post 1950.
O'Connor's project is on methodology in evolutionary modeling, and in particular,
on how focusing on strategic settings that are interesting for game theoretic analysis
distorts our understanding of evolutionary pressure. She'll investigate cases where
strategic models from the social sciences are imported whole-cloth to biology although
the relevant strategic aspects no longer apply.
A number of LPS faculty have been visiting fellows in past years; most recently, LPS
professor Kyle Stanford was the center's inaugural senior fellow in 2012-13.
-courtesy of LPS Department
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