Past Schedules

Fall 2025 Schedule

October 8th. Jeffrey Barrett and Eddy Chen, 'Algorithmic Randomness, Exchangeability, and the Principal Principle'

October 22nd. [Golden Oldie] Eric Winsberg 'Sanctioning Models: The Epistemology of Simulation', Science in Context (1999)

November 19th. Mario Hubert, 'Is the Quantum Reconstruction Program Compatible with the Ontological Model Framework?'

December 3rd. Federico Pollachini, 'Applying Causal Models to Group Actions'

Spring 2025 Schedule

April 9th. Gabriele Carcassi, 'Ensemble Spaces and Minimal Interpretation.'

April 23rd. Shelly Yiran Shi, 'Why Not A Gravitational Perpetual Motion Machine?'

May 21st. Miguel Ohnesorge, 'Case-Selection in Debates about Human Quantification: Lessons from Seismology.'

June 11th. Travis McKenna, 'What is an Instance of a Law of Nature?'

Winter 2025

January 22nd. Josh Hunt, 'Nomological Expressivism.'

January 29th. Diego Arana Segura, 'Subsystems as Aspects.'

February 12th. Chip Sebens, 'How Anomalous is the Electron's Magnetic Moment?'

February 26th. Travis McKenna and Tyler Hildebrand, 'Minimalism about Laws.'

March 12th. Michael Veldman, 'Mathematizing Metaphysics: The Case of the Principle of Least Action.'

Fall 2024

October 1st. Mario Hubert, 'From Frequentist Explanations to Expectations.'

October 15th. Sabrina Hao, 'Bottom Up Realism: Particles in Quantum Field Theory.'

October 29th. Eddy Keming Chen, 'Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable' (joint work with Roderich Tumulka).

November 12th. Barry Ward, 'Inference to the Best Explanation as Causal Inference.'

December 3rd. Jennifer McDonald, 'Deriving Naturalness from Causal Structures.'