2018
The Twenty Second Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 16–20 May 2018
What Counts as Evidence?
Public lecture: Tuesday May 15, 2018, 7 pm
The Swain Room, University of Minnesota, McNamara Center
Black Holes by Robert Wald
Program and participants
1. Evidence in statistics
• Kent Staley
• Sandy Zabell
2. Philosophy of Experiment
• Allan Franklin
• Peter Galison
3. The Case of Inflation in Cosmology
• Andreas Albrecht
• Neil Turok
4. Philosophical Views o Evidence in Cosmology
• Chris Smeenk
• John Norton
5. Evidence and Legal Practice
• Ron Laymon
• Michael Pardo
6. Experiment versus Simulation
• Eric Winsberg
• Wendy Parker
Participants
Andreas Albrecht (UC Davis)
Allan Franklin (Boulder)
Peter Galison (Harvard)
Ron Laymon (Ohio State)
John Norton (Pittsburgh)
Michael Pardo (Alabama)
Wendy Parker (Durham)
Chris Smeenk (Western)
Kent Staley (St Louis)
Neil Turock (Perimeter Inst)
Eric Winsberg (S Florida)
Sandy Zabell (Northwestern)
Discussants
Siska de Baerdemaeker (Pittsburgh)
Nora Boyd (Pittsburgh)
Samuel Fletcher (Minnesota)
Clayton Gearhart (St John's)
Don Howard (Notre Dame)
Geoffrey Hellman (Minnesota)
Kevin Kadowaki (UC Irvine)
Casey McCoy (Edinburgh)
Helen Meskhize (UC Irvine)
Dasha Pruss (Pittsburgh)
Roger Stuewer (Minnesota)
James Weatherall (UC Irvine)
Advisory Board
Lee Gohlike, Founder
Peter Gilbertson
John Norton (Pittsburgh)
Serge Rudaz (Minnesota)
Philip Stamp (Vancouver)
Jos Uffink (Minnesota) Chair
Bill Unruh (Vancouver)
Robert Wald (Chicago)
James Weatherall (UC Irvine)
Local Observers
Femke Kuiling (Minnesota)
