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Margaret Morrison Memorial

Friday September 30, 2022, 2:00 pm - 6:15 pm

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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Date:
Friday September 30, 2022
Time:
2:00 pm - 6:15 pm
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Venue

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418
170 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M8 Canada
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Phone
416-978-3311
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