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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) is a network of academics and students working in the philosophy of science in various parts of the University of Cambridge, including the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Faculty of Philosophy. The Wednesday afternoon seminar series features current research by CamPoS members as well as visitors to Cambridge and scholars based in nearby institutions.

In the 2024–25 year, CamPoS is being organised by Miguel Ohnesorge.

Seminars are held on Wednesdays, 1.00–2.30pm in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, unless otherwise stated.

Seminars in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science are open to all members of the University (including academic staff, postdocs, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and affiliates). Unless otherwise specified, they are not open to members of the public.

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2 upcoming talks and 197 talks in the archive.

Is science 'Western' science?

UserPaul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?

UserCristian Larroulet Philippi (Gonville and Caius College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2024, 13:00-14:30

Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism

UserCheryl Misak (University of Toronto).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 15:00-16:30

Inferring from negative analogies: lessons on analogical reasoning from clinical medical practice

UserHelene Scott-Fordsmand (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2024, 13:00-14:30

Is AI generated art really art?

UserMilena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Limit objects and emergence

UserMiklós Rédei (LSE).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

When the data cannot speak clearly: Covid-19 and minoritised groups

UserMichael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:30

Unifying the notion of objectivity

UserInkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science

UserLena Kästner (Universität Bayreuth).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

The case of Ignaz Semmelweis revisited: a plea for Popperian science

UserZuzana Parusniková (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Why we shouldn't democratise science

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

In defence of dimensions

UserCaspar Jacobs (Merton College, Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Bayesian explanationism

UserStephan Hartmann (MCMP, LMU Munich).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Not for me: on the external function of guilt

UserShaun Nichols (Cornell University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Ways of branchmaking

UserNick Huggett (University of Illinois Chicago).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Laws unconstrained: against minimal primitivism about laws of nature

UserMichael Townsen Hicks (University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:30

Realism and technocracy: a working hypothesis

UserMazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression

UserMarion Boulicault (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

The causal structure of cultural domination

UserTarun Menon (Azim Premji University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science

UserUwe Peters (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2023, 13:00-14:30

Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling

UserFiora Salis (University of York).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

UserTom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization

UserAlessandra Basso (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Worries about philosopher experts

UserCathrine Holst (University of Oslo).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Science in crisis? Reproducibility and the philosophy of science

UserSamuel Fletcher (University of Minnesota).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries

UserJames Woodward (University of Pittsburgh).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockWednesday 22 June 2022, 16:00-17:30

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

UserNaftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

UserCatherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

On the nonexistence of moralometers

UserEric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 13:00-14:30

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

UserMathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

UserJacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

UserEllen Fridland (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

UserLena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

UserKourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

UserAdrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

UserAriane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

UserHaixin Dang (University of Leeds).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Learning from case studies

UserPetri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Science and speculation

UserAdrian Currie (University of Exeter).

HouseTeams.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserCarina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Learning from sociological case studies

CANCELLED

UserPetri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice

CANCELLED

UserAdrian Currie (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

The good news about killing people

UserBryan W. Roberts (LSE).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Creativity and AI

UserMarta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Pluralism about actual causation

UserEnno Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

The replication crisis and philosophy

UserWesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Theories of consciousness and animal minds: a modest theoretical proposal

UserHenry Shevlin (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

On validators for psychiatric categories

UserMiriam Solomon (Temple University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Does science progress?

UserDarrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics

UserMaarten Steenhagen (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction

CANCELLED

UserFinnur Dellsén (University of Iceland).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Beauty, truth and understanding

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Spatial experience: more than mere structure

UserPeter Epstein (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Non-literal model interpretations

UserJames Nguyen (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

UserAgnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Explanatory directionality

UserLina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

The C theory of time

UserMatt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

UserKatie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Memory: what is it good for?

UserAli Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments

UserKarina Vold (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Leibniz, Mach and the C-Series

UserKarim Thébault (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Explanations for medical artificial intelligence

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Many Molyneux Questions

UserJonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction

UserMazviita D. Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?

UserDarrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University; Durham University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

UserAgnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument

CANCELLED

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity

CANCELLED

UserDennis Lehmkuhl (Caltech/Einstein Papers).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

UserMariam Thalos (University of Utah).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Yikes! Why did past-me say he'd give a talk on future discounting?

UserCraig Callender (University of California, San Diego).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

No interpretation of probability

UserWolfgang Schwarz (University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Even observables change in Hamiltonian general relativity

UserJ. Brian Pitts (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Reviving analytical philosophy of history

UserPaul A. Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

The principle of stability

UserSam Fletcher (University of Minnesota).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans

UserJacob Stegenga (with Zoë Hitzig) (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

What is quantum theory actually telling us about the world? The 'relational' interpretation

Please note earlier time

UserCarlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 12:00-13:30

How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?

UserCatherine Kendig (Michigan State University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Why the priority rule does not exist

UserRemco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

A biologically informed hylomorphism

UserChristopher Austin (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Ecological factors of attraction and causal explanation in cultural attractor theory

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Towards a more realistic subjective decision theory

UserYang Liu (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Pragmatist coherence as the source of truth and reality

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Delusional cognition as explanation

UserMatthew Parrott (KCL).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Why common cause explanation is not the main business of historical reconstruction

UserAdrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:30

Assessing scientific theories

UserStephan Hartmann (LMU, Munich).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Newton's laws and epistemic amplification

UserKirsten Walsh (University of Nottingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

What makes econophysics distinctive?

UserJames Weatherall (University of California, Irvine).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Delusional cognition as explanation

CANCELLED

UserMatthew Parrott (KCL).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Risk aversion and the long run

UserJohanna Thoma (LSE).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:30

Belief and statistical evidence

UserArif Ahmed (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 13:00-14:30

Using organic chemistry to probe the limits of interventionism

UserGeorgina Statham (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 13:00-14:30

The inconsistency of quantum electrodynamics: a history

UserAlex Blum (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 13:00-14:30

No general structure

UserC. Kenneth Waters (University of Calgary).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2016, 13:00-14:30

What's nu? Maxwell's electrical metrology and the electromagnetic theory of light reappraised

UserDaniel Mitchell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2016, 13:00-14:30

Hierarchical transition modes of biological systems are evolvable

UserDavid Crawford (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:30

Prediction and medicine

UserAlex Broadbent (University of Johannesburg).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 13:00-14:30

Explanatory abstractions

UserJuha Saatsi (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Measurement error and the problem of quantity individuation

UserEran Tal (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation

UserEmily Adlam (Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

CSER and the Leverhulme CFI: how, what and where next

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:30

Does time seem to pass?

UserNatalja Deng (Faculty of Divinity).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 13:00-14:30

Absolute measures of effectiveness

UserJacob Stegenga (University of Victoria).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 13:00-14:30

Imprecise credences and the probabilistic liar

UserCatrin Campbell-Moore (Corpus Christi College).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 13:00-14:30

Simulating scientific merit dynamics

UserShahar Avin (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Expecting misleading evidence

UserBernhard Salow (Trinity College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

The argument from the good lot: unconceived alternatives and 20th-century genetics

UserRaphael Scholl (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Idealization, abstraction and the ontic view of explanation

UserMarta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:30

There is no problem of interpersonal comparisons

UserErik Angner (George Mason University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:30

From the biological self to psychological self

UserCatherine Wilson (University of York).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:30

The philosophical role of illness

CANCELLED

UserHavi Carel (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:30

The metaphysics of race: distinctions without any differences

UserChristopher Clarke (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:30

Psychometric validation as theory avoidance

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)

UserChristian List (London School of Economics and Political Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics

UserJonathan Knowles (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Does the missing fundamental require an inferentialist explanation?

UserJenny Judge (Centre for Music and Science, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Kinds and degrees of (scientific) understanding

UserHenk de Regt (VU University Amsterdam).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:30

Causation and prediction in epidemiology

UserAlex Broadbent (University of Johannesburg).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 13:00-14:30

Interventionist causation and the placement problem

UserShyane Siriwardena (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:30

Title to be confirmed

Please note change of date and time

UserEleanor Knox (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:30

Things don't fall apart: persistence and functional explanation in social science

UserAdrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 13:00-14:30

Farewell to content

UserKim Sterelny (Australian National University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Causation as a thermodynamic phenomenon

UserDavid Papineau (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

The realist stance

Note unusual day and time

UserAnjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Accuracy-first epistemology

UserRichard Pettigrew (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Inclusive fitness, group selection and human sociality

UserJonathan Birch (Christ's College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation

POSTPONED

UserAdrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

The special science dilemma and how culture solves it

UserMarion Godman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Triangulation of phenomena

UserCaterina Marchionni (University of Helsinki).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:30

Infinitesimal probabilities

UserLeon Horsten (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Inference to the best explanation and paradigms

UserAlexander Bird (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

How we manage to manage 'knowledge': using computational infrastructures in semantic systems biology

UserSophia Efstathiou (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Human nature: from theory to practice

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

The epistemic innocence project

UserLisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

Propensities and pragmatism

UserMauricio Suarez (Complutense University of Madrid).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

The plurality of priority

UserKerry McKenzie (University of Calgary).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 13:00-14:30

Towards a unified model of a human being

UserChristina Toren (University of St Andrews).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

On the evolutionary origins of morality

UserMatteo Mameli (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

Gestalt switches in the prize paper: inspiration for, but not an instance of, chaos

UserLena Zuchowski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

The topology of intertheoretic reduction

UserSam Fletcher (UC Irvine).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

Armchair science

UserRobert Northcott (Birkbeck).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

Individual risk: does it exist?

UserPhil Dawid (Statistical Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

A processual perspective on biology

UserJohn Dupré (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

Epistemic humility

UserIan Kidd (Durham University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Knowing and understanding

UserPaulina Sliwa (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Isaac Newton's scientific method

UserWilliam Harper (University of Western Ontario).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

How autonomous are social scientific explanations?

UserChristopher Clarke (HPS, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:30

Winchgenstein and functional explanation

UserAdrian Boutel (HPS, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 13:00-14:30

Modality in decision theory

UserArif Ahmed (Philosophy, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Lanford's theorem and the emergence of irreversibility

UserGiovanni Valente (University of Pittsburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Aesthetics in science

UserAngela Breitenbach (Philosophy, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Altruism and relatedness in microbial populations

UserJonathan Birch (HPS, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

A Humean alternative on what there is

UserAdam Caulton (Philosophy, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

The meaning of 'kilogram'

UserSally Riordan (Stanford University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

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