9-12:30 pm – Workshop, “Pragmatism and the Evolution of Scientific Methods”
Chair: Anna Boncompagni, UCI, Philosophy
Introduction: Jeffrey Barrett, UCI, LPS
9:10 am – Alexander Klein, McMaster - "James's Solution to the Measurement Problem: Automatism Case Study”
Commentator: Tori Cotton, UCI, LPS
10:20 am – Cailin O’Connor, UCI, LPS - “Interdisciplinarity Can Aid the Spread of Better Methods Between Scientific Communities”
Commentator: Yunlong Cao, UCI, Philosophy
11:30 am – Trevor Pearce, University of North Carolina at Charlotte - "Making Philosophy Scientific: Alain Locke vs. John Dewey"
Commentator: Christian Torsell, UCI, LPS
2:00-3:30 p.m. SoCal Pragmatist Forum - Reading Group
"Peirce's Philosophy of Science" by Nicholas Rescher (excerpt)
[If you’d like to participate, please read ahead of time; pdf file available below.]
Moderators: Andrew Howat and Patrick Ryan, CSU Fullerton
The event is open to members of the SoCal Pragmatist Forum and all eligible persons: full-time faculty and postdoctoral students from all institutions, and (graduate and undergraduate) students from any campus of the University of California.