Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

Host: The Johns Hopkins Center for History and Philosophy of Science

Session 1: Friday, March 23, 9AM-10:35AM
“The War on Induction: Whewell takes on Newton and Mill”
Speaker: Peter Achinstein, Johns Hopkins University

Commentator: Richard Richards, University of Alabama

Moderator: Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University

Session 2: Friday, March 23, 11AM -12:35PM
“Induction without Probabilities”
Speaker: John Norton, University of Pittsburgh

Commentator: Fred Kronz, University of Texas

Moderator: Robert Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins University

Lunch: 12:45-1:45

Session 3: Friday, March 23, 2PM-3:35PM
“Goodman’s and Dorr’s Riddles of Induction”
Speaker: Frank Arntzenius, Rutgers University

Commentator: Michael Weisberg, University of
Pennsylvania

Moderator: Maura Tumulty, Johns Hopkins University

Session 4: Friday, March 23, 4PM-5:35PM
“Three Battle Periods in the Statistics Wars”
Speaker: Deborah Mayo, Virginia Tech

Commentator: Kent Staley, St. Louis University

Moderator: Steven Gross, Johns Hopkins University

Session 5: Saturday, March 24, 9AM-11:10AM
“Philosophical Morals about Induction from Statistical Learning Theory”
Gilbert Harman, Philosophy, Princeton University

Commentators: Michael Williams, Philosophy, Johns Hopkins
University
John Roberts, Philosophy, University of North
Carolina

Moderator: Meredith Williams, Johns Hopkins University

Session 6: Saturday, March 24 11:30AM-12:30PM
General Discussion.