Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Science Research Seminar

Convened by Antony Eagle and Simon Saunders

All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.30 pm, in the Lecture Room, Philosophy Centre, 10 Merton St.

13 October: Gerard Emch, University of Florida: Classical aspects in quantm statistical mechanics
20 October: Steven French, University of Leeds: Science as a weapon of the realist
27 October: Michel Ghins,University of Louvain-la-Neuve: On Thomas Ryckman's "The Reign of Relativity
3 November: Luc Bovens, LSE: Cartel Formation and voting in a federal assembly
10 November: Nick Shea, University of Oxford: Representation in the genome and in other inheritance systems abstract
17 November: Toby Handfield, Monash University: The metaphysics of causal models: Where's the biff? abstract
24 November: Alexander Bird, University of Bristol: Necessary connections: laws and properties
1 December: Michela Massimi, University College London: Where Kuhnian incommensurability leaves us: a lesson from the crisis of the old quantum theory

All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.30 pm, in the Lecture Room, Philosophy Centre, 10 Merton St.

16 October: Professor Peter Lipton, Cambridge University: The Ravens revisited
23 October: Margaret Boden, Sussex University: Not what they're made out to be: on Vaucanson, Babbage, and AI
30 October: John Worrall, LSE: Why there's no cause to randomize
6 November: Ian Maclean, Oxford University: Attributing meaning to early modern mathematical and scientific texts: some case histories
13 November: Susan Hurley, Warwick University: Active perception and perceiving action; the shared circuits hypothesis
20 November: Michael Redhead, LSE: Minds, machines, and all that
27 November: Nicholas Maxwell, University College London: What Kind of Inquiry can Best Help us Create a Better World? Popper, Science and Enlightenment
4 December: William Unruh, University of Vancouver: Closing in on non-locality

Convened by Harvey Brown, Jeremy Buttefield, and Simon Saunders

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in the Old Library, All Souls College.

Thursday 17 October: Kathleen Wilkes, University of Oxford

Models and Realism; the Animal Model in the Brain and Behavioural Sciences

Thursday 24 October: Nicholas Jardine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Whigs and Stories: Herbert Butterfield and the Historiography of the Sciences

Thursday 31 October: David Papineau, Kings College, University of London

Decisions and Many Minds

Thursday 7 November: John Campbell, University of Oxford

Causal vs Epiphenomenal Progressions

Thursday 14 November: Tim Williamson, University of Oxford

Evidential Probability

Thursday 21 November: Frank Jackson, Australia National University

The How and Why of Narrow Content

Thursday 28 November: Rom Harre, University of Oxford

Science as Model Making: Two Roles for Iconic Representations

Nancy Cartwright, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, and University of California at San Diego

Causes and Probabilities