Dear ISH member,


The Center for Philosophy of Science invites you to join us for our Lunch
Time Talks.  Attend in person, Room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral
of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh or visit our live stream on
YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.



*LTT: David Wallace*

Tuesday, September 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

*Title: Learning to Represent: Mathematics-first accounts of representation
and their relation to natural language*



*Abstract:*

I develop an account of how mathematized theories in physics represent
physical systems, in response to the frequent claim that any such account
must presuppose a non-mathematized, and usually linguistic, description of
the system represented. The account I develop contains a circularity, in
that representation is a mathematical relation between the models of a
theory and the system as represented by some other model — but I argue that
this circularity is not vicious, in any case refers in linguistic accounts
of meaning and representation, and is simply a consequence of the fact that
we have no unmediated, representation-independent access to the world.

This talk will also be available live streamed on:

Zoom at https://pitt.zoom.us/s/97604497287

YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.







*LTT: Kevin Zollman*

Friday, September 13 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

*Title: Authorship norms and epistemic public goods*

*Abstract:*

Different academic fields have different norms about how authors are listed
in published papers.   Some norms are insensitive to the contribution of
the authors, listing them in alphabetical order or by seniority.  Other
norms represent the relative contributions of the authors by listing those
who contributed the most first.  In this paper, we develop a game theoretic
model to explore the conditions under which these norms evolve and the
consequences they have for collaboration.  We find surprising conclusions
about how the distribution of expected contribution affects the evolution
of these norms.  In addition, we find that all norms result in some
inefficiency: they discourage some productive collaboration. Different
norms discourage different types of collaboration. We explore what might be
the epistemic consequence of these differences.

Can’t make it in-person? This talk will available online through the
following:

Zoom:  https://pitt.zoom.us/s/95385314177

YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.