All talks will be held in the Valentine Overlook Room, 5280 Clifton Court Hall

 

Talks will be live streamed via the Cincinnati Philosophy YouTube channel on the  2023 Cincinnati Philosophy Colloquium Playlist
Live chat and comments are not available. For questions, please contact Professor Polger     

 

WiFi on the UC campus is available via a UC Guest network or Eduroam

Thursday, September 21

9:45-10:00
Coffee service

10:00-10:15
Greeting and introduction, Thomas Polger, University of Cincinnati

10:15-11:30
Carl Craver, Washington University in St. Louis
Lesions and Persons: Discovering Complexity in the Space of Reasons
[abstract] [website]
Chair: Nina Atanasova, Cleveland State University

bio break

11:45-1:00
Markus Eronen, University of Groningen
Discovering Psychological Complexity: Insights for Theory Construction
[abstract] [website]
Chair: Lane DesAutels, Missouri Western

1:00-2:00 Lunch on site for all attendees

2:00-3:15
Jacqueline Sullivan, Western University
Unraveling Discovery Dynamics in Open Science Partnerships
[abstract] [website]
Chair: Danielle Williams, Washington University in St. Louis

Coffee service

3:30-4:45
John Bickle, Mississippi State University and University of Mississippi Medical Center
Neuroepigenetics Causes: Neither Mechanism^TM Nor Pathways^TM (But a Smidgen of Both)
[abstract] [website]
Chair: Valerie Hardcastle, Northern Kentucky University

Dinner on your own

Optional: USWNT v. South Africa at TQL Stadium, 7:30pm (speakers, chairs, and hosts)

 

Friday, September 22

9:45-10:00
Coffee service

10:00-10:15
Greeting and organizational info, Thomas Polger, Cincinnati

10:15-11:30
William Bechtel, University of California, San Diego
Letting Biology Confound Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation
[abstract] [website]
Chair: Steve Downes, University of Utah

bio break

11:45-1:00
Kari Theurer, Trinity College
Disorder as Dysfunction: Adaptationism and Teleology in Psychiatry
[abstract] [website]
Chair: Douglas Keaton, Flagler College

1:00-2:15 Lunch on your own

2:15-3:30
Cédric Brun, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Is Localization a Cartesian Inheritance?
[abstract] [website]
Chair: Stuart Glennan, Butler University

Coffee service

3:45-5:00
Zoe Drayson, University of California, Davis
Abstraction in Computational Explanations of Cognition
[abstract] [website]
Chair: Tom Polger, University of Cincinnati

5:00 Reception and Toasts for all attendees, Rob Skipper, University of Cincinnati

7:30 Dinner at Mita's (speakers, chairs, and hosts)