9-12:30 pm – Workshop, “Pragmatism and the Evolution of Scientific Methods”

Chair: Anna Boncompagni, UCI, Philosophy

Introduction: Jeffrey Barrett, UCI, LPS

9:10 am – Alexander Klein, McMaster - "James's Solution to the Measurement Problem: Automatism Case Study”
Commentator: Tori Cotton, UCI, LPS

10:20 am – Cailin O’Connor, UCI, LPS - “Interdisciplinarity Can Aid the Spread of Better Methods Between Scientific Communities”
Commentator: Yunlong Cao, UCI, Philosophy

11:30 am – Trevor Pearce, University of North Carolina at Charlotte - "Making Philosophy Scientific: Alain Locke vs. John Dewey"
Commentator: Christian Torsell, UCI, LPS

2:00-3:30 p.m.  SoCal Pragmatist Forum - Reading Group
"Peirce's Philosophy of Science" by Nicholas Rescher (excerpt)

[If you’d like to participate, please read ahead of time.]

Moderators: Andrew Howat and Patrick Ryan, CSU Fullerton

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The event is open to members of the SoCal Pragmatist Forum and all eligible persons: full-time faculty and postdoctoral students from all institutions, and (graduate and undergraduate) students from any campus of the University of California.