牛津大学近年科学哲学讨论会议题公告
2007-10-10
Philosophy of Science Research Seminar
Convened by Antony Eagle and Simon Saunders
Michaelmas Term 2005
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
Michaelmas Term 2003
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
Michaelmas Term 2002
Convened by Harvey Brown, Jeremy Buttefield, and Simon Saunders
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