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Margaret Morrison Memorial
Friday September 30, 2022, 2:00 pm - 6:15 pm
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Please join us as we remember and celebrate the life and legacy of our late colleague Professor Emerita Margaret “Margie” Morrison.
This hybrid event will take place both in the Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 & and on Zoom. Those attending in person are asked to RSVP to Belinda Piercy.
Join the Zoom Meeting: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86019637268
SCHEDULE
2:00-4:00pm
INTERVENTIONS
Mary Morgan (LSE), Marcel Boumans (Utrecht), Roman Frigg (LSE)
TALKS
Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich), “Morrison’s Particularism”
Alisa Bokulich (Boston)/Wendy Parker (Virginia Tech), “Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Data Adequacy-for-Purpose”
Bob Batterman (Pittsburgh), “Emergence, Symmetry Breaking, and Order Parameters”
BREAK
4:15-6:15pm
INTERVENTIONS
Margaret Schabas (UBC), Mauricio Suárez (Complutense Madrid), Sonia Sedivy (Toronto), Mohan Matthen (Toronto), Joseph Berkovitz (Toronto), James Robert Brown (Toronto)
TALKS
Eran Tal (McGill), “Measurement, Models, and Evidential Power”
Sorin Bangu (Bergen), “The Discreet Charm of Linear Momentum: Causal and Noncausal Explanations (in Physics)”
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