Wayne C. Myrvold: academic talks

“Bayesianism and Unification.” November 2, 2006, contibution to symposium, “A New Look at Unification in Science,” 20th biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver.

“Simplicity and Theory Choice: Ockham’s disposable razor.” October 13, 2006, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia.

“Everett and Evidence.” October 11, 2006, Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vancouver, BC.

Participation in Environmental (In)Justice Roundtable, June 4, 2006, Regional Social Forum, London, Ontario.

“Relativistic Considerations Concerning Interpretations of Quantum Theories,” May 6, 2006, Contemporary Issues in the Foundations of Physics conference, UWO.

“From Physics to Information Theory and Back, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Alice and Bob,” May 3, 2006, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

“The Disposable Razor,” March 31, 2006, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario.

“There and Back Again: From Physics to Information Theory and Back,” Foundations of Quantum Information and Entanglement conference, Boston University, March 25, 2006.

“How Not to Defend Darwin,” February 23, 2006, BiPED talk (reprise of talk for Feb. 4 Symposium at King’s).

“How Not to Defend Darwin,” February 4, 2006, at Symposium on Intelligent Design, King’s University College.

“Prediction versus Accommodation from a Bayesian Perspective,” December 2, 2005, McGill University Department of Philosophy.

“Biotech: The Future of Food? The Future of Science?” November 16, 2005, London Public Library.

“Anticipation versus Accommodation from a Probabilistic Perspective,” October 2, 2005, Dark Matter in the Universe conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

“Being Bayesian, I Believe in Objective Chance.” August 2, 2005, Being Bayesian in the Quantum World conference,, Konstanz, Germany.

“Some Bayesian Reflections on Theory Acceptance.” May 13, 2005, Evidence in Physics conference, UWO.

“Modal Interpretations of Relativistic Quantum Theories (Real and Chimerical).” May 2, 2005, University of Bristol.

“Chasing Chimeras.” April 21, 2005, Descrying the World in Physics workshop, Rutgers University.

“Modal Interpretations of Relativistic Theories (Real and Chimerical ).”  April 7, 2005, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris.

“ Relativistic considerations concerning interpretations of quantum mechanics.” March 3, 2005, Oxford Univerity Philosophy of Physics Discussion Group.

“Why I am Not an Everettian.” February 10, 2005, Oxford University Philosophy of Physics Seminar.

“The Ignacio Chapela Affair, or, Can Science Survive Biotech?” BiPED, November 8, 2004.

“The Evolution of Anti-Evolutionism.” Guelph Third Age Learning Lecture, September 22, 2004, University of Guelph,.

“Towards a Viable Empiricism.” Fourth Annual Howard Stein Lecture, June 4, 2004, University of Chicago.

“A Bayesian Account of the Virtue of Unification.” August 10, 2003, 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo, Spain.

“A Bayesian Account of the Virtue of Unification.” May 30, 2003, joint session of the Canadian Philosophical Association and the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Halifax

“Relativistic Considerations Concerning Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.” March 26, 2003, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo.

“A Loophole in Bell’s Theorem? Parameter Dependence in the Hess-Philipp Model.” November 10, 2002, Eighteenth Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Milwaukee.

“On Some Early Objections to Bohm’s Theory.” May 26, 2002, Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting, University of Toronto.

“Why does Entropy Increase?” May 26, 2001, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science annual meeting, Université Laval, Québec.

“Two Models of Computation on the Reals.” May 25, 2001, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics annual meeting, Université Laval, Québec.

“Einstein’s Untimely Burial.” November 4, 2000, 17th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver.

(with William L. Harper) “Simplicity and Scientific Inference.” November 3, 2000, 17th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver.

"Is the Collapse Postulate Incompatible with Relativity?" November 19, 1999, University of Waterloo.

"Is the Collapse Postulate a Threat to Peaceful Coexistence?" November 5, 1999, University of Chicago.

"Convergence and Infinitesimals in Newton's Proof of Proposition I, Book I", at "Infinitesimals: Concepts and Applications" Conference, UWO, October 30, 1999.

"Classical Constructivism," University of Western Ontario, October 15, 1999.

(with William L. Harper) "Kepler and Curve Fitting," August 21, 1999, 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, Poland.

“On Peaceful Coexistence: Can There Be a Covariant Account of Measurement Processes?”, Contemporary Issues in the Foundations of Physics, UWO, April 10, 1999.

“Mother Knows Best? The Balance of Nature, or, What I Don’t Know About Ecology.” Presentation at BiPED (Biology, Philosophy, and Evolution Discussion Group), March 18,  1999.

Commentary on Andrew Wayne, “Diverse Views on Diverse Evidence.” Annual Meeting of Canadian Philosophical Association, Ottawa, May 1998.

“Levels of Selection: Some Doubts Concerning a Consensus.” Presentation at BiPED (Biology, Philosophy, and Evolution Discussion Group) November 1997.

“Computability and Continuity in Physical Theories.” December 30, 1994, Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Boston.

“Computability in Quantum Mechanics.” September 17, 1994, The Foundational Debate: Complexity and Constructivity in Mathematics and Physics conference, Vienna.

“Computability, Continuity, and Physical Theories” April 14, 1994, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

“Peirce on Cantor’s Paradox and the Continuum,” December 28, 1993, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

“Tractatus 4.04: (Compare Hertz’ Mechanics on Dynamical Models),” August 19, 1989, 14th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.