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Explanation across
​the disciplines

September 14-15, 2018
​Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
​PROGRAM
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Session I: Philosophy and Explanation
110 Storrs Avenue, Davis Family Library 201 – Watson Lecture Hall

3:30-4:30
Kareem Khalifa “Explanation: A Guide for the Perplexed”

4:40-5:30
Nina Emery “Explanatory Adequacy as a Constraint on Scientifically-Respectable Philosophical Theories”

5:30-6:45
Dinner
219 South Main Street, Kenyon Arena Lounge

Keynote I 
7:00-8:30
Michael Strevens, "Grasp"

 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Session II: The Impact of Explanations
110 Storrs Avenue, Davis Family Library 201 – Watson Lecture Hall

9:00-9:50
Jeffry Ramsey, “Explanation in the Wicked World of Environmental Problems”

10:00-10:50
Piper Sledge & Collin Rice “An Epistemic Case for Diversity in Science”

11:00-12:15
KEYNOTE: Tania Lombrozo

12:30-1:30
Lunch

Session III: Mathematical Explanations

1:40-2:30
Janet Folina “Explanation and Visual Information in Mathematics”

2:40-3:30
Sam Cowling, Seth Chin-Parker, & May Mei, “What Makes Platonists Tick? Explanatory Preferences in Mathematical Matters”

3:30-5:30
Group Discussion

6:00-closing time
Dinner and Continued Discussion


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