MTR 2024

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METHOD, THEORY, REALITY WORKSHOP • 2024 SCHEDULE

FRIDAY APRIL 26, 2024 (South College E470)

3:30 pm - 4:45 pm – Ryan Olsen, “Why and How Identity is Grounded”

5:00 pm - 6:15 pm – Jenn McDonald, “Deriving Naturalness from Causal Structures”

6:30 pm - 7:45 pm – Chris Dorst, “Superfluous Ideological Structure”

8:00 pm DINNER

SATURDAY APRIL 27, 2024 (South College W245)

10:00 am – 10:30am COFFEE & LIGHT SNACKS

10:30 am - 11:45 am – Jason DeWitt, “Causal Pragmatism without Causal Perspectivalism”

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm – Devin Gouvea, “An Exemplary Approach to Scientific Concepts”

1:15 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm – Cruz Davis, “Serendipitous Shortcomings or Auspicious Assumptions?”

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm – Travis McKenna, “The Coordinating Role of Laws in Empirical Science”

5:30 pm - 6:45 pm – Alex Meehan, “How Ur-itating! A Trilemma for the Ur-prior Theorist”

7:00 pm RECEPTION

SUNDAY APRIL 28, 2024 (South College E470)

10:00 am – 10:30am COFFEE & LIGHT SNACKS

10:30 am - 11:45 am – Jared Hanson-Park, “Realism and the Nature of Scientific Progress”

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm – Martina Botti, “Is Parthood a Relation? No.”

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCH

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm – Alex Murphy, “On Getting ‘Space’ Right”