Brad Weslake

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester

Talks

Upcoming

22-23 June 2013
Explanation in Metaphysics
Neuchâtel

Previous

29 March 2013
“Against Explanatory Fundamentalism”
Lunchtime Colloquium, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh

7 February 2013
“Was Darwin a Materialist?”
Philosophy Colloquium, Nazareth College

30 January-3 February 2013
“Comments on Ned Hall, Physical and Metaphysical Modality
Back at the Ranch
Tucson

27-30 December 2012
“Comments on Jeff Engelhardt, The Problem of Second Effects
Eastern APA
Atlanta

23 August 2012
“Difference-Making, Closure and Exclusion”
Causation Workshop, Macquarie University
Sydney

22 August 2012
“Difference-Making, Closure and Exclusion”
Philosophy Colloquium, University of Sydney
Sydney

16 August 2012
“Difference-Making, Closure and Exclusion”
Thursday Seminar Series, ANU
Canberra

15 August 2012
“Difference-Making, Closure and Exclusion”
Philosophy Seminar, University of Tasmania
Hobart

11 August 2012
“Was Darwin a Materialist?”
XII Gathering of Noble Savages
Hobart

23 July
“Difference-Making, Closure and Exclusion”
Current Projects Seminar
University of Sydney
Sydney

1-6 July 2012
“Statistical Mechanical Imperialism”
Australasian Association of Philosophy
Wollongong

28-29 June 2012
“Statistical Mechanical Imperialism”
Semantics and Pragmatics of Ceteris Paribus Conditions
Düsseldorf

4-7 April 2012
Commentary on a paper by Carolina Sartorio
Pacific APA [DETAILS]
Seattle

15 March 2012
"A Partial Theory of Actual Causation"
Work in Progress Seminar [DETAILS]
MIT

15 February 2012
"Science and Religion in the Scientific Revolution"
Interfaith Chapel
University of Rochester

12 February 2012
"Was Darwin a Materialist?" [SLIDES]
Darwin Day Lecture
Rochester Secular Student Alliance
University of Rochester

31 August 2011
"A Partial Theory of Actual Causation" [HANDOUT]
Philosophy Colloquium [DETAILS]
University of Sydney

19–20 August 2011
Invited Participant
Chance and the Principal Principle [DETAILS]
Monash University

16–17 August 2011
"Causation, Counterfactual Dependence, and the Transition Problem" [SLIDES]
Temporal Asymmetry [DETAILS]
Monash University

3 December 2010
“A Tangled History: On Science and Religion” (with H. Allen Orr) [SLIDES]
Phelps Colloquium Series [DETAILS]
University of Rochester

30 November and 2, 7 and 9 December 2010
Four lectures on topics in philosophy of biology
Graduate seminar Advanced Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [DETAILS]
Department of Biology, University of Rochester

8 October 2010
“Against Explanatory Fundamentalism” [SLIDES]
Philosophy Colloquium [DETAILS]
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

25-27 July 2010
Session Chair
SPAWN [DETAILS]
Syracuse University

16-18 April 2010
Invited Participant
Quantum Mechanics, Time, and Ontology [DETAILS]
Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences

21-24 October 2009
Symposium on Causation, Laws, and Natural Kinds
(with Angelo Cei, Steven French, and Michela Massimi)
European Philosophy of Science Association [DETAILS]
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

22 May 2009
“Explanation in Neuroscience and Folk Psychology” [SLIDES]
Neuroscience Cluster Annual Retreat [DETAILS] [POSTER]
University of Rochester

13-14 May 2009
“Initial Conditions, Laws and Explanation” [HANDOUT] [SLIDES]
Workshop on the Philosophical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics [DETAILS]
Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences

2 May 2009
“Causal Relativism” [HANDOUT]
Mellon Metaphysics Workshop
Cornell University