October
Monday, 4 October 5:00-6:30 pm
SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY
Sabina Alkire
Harvard Sen's
Capability Approach
Tuesday, 12 October 2:00-4:00 pm
POPPER SEMINAR
Kevin Korb
Monash University
Causal Reasoning with Causal Models
Tuesday, 12 October 4:15-5:45 pm
CONTINGENCY IN SCIENCE: THE ROLE OF METHODOLOGY
Nancy Cartwright and Valeria Mosini
John Milton
KCL
Bacon
Thursday, 14 October 5:30 - 7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Alex Voorhoeve
LSE
Scanlon's Contractualism
Monday, 18 October 5:30-7:00 pm
CONTINGENCY IN SCIENCE: THE ROLE OF METHODOLOGY
Nancy Cartwright and Valeria Mosini
Ampère
Wednesday, 20 October 7:00-8:30 pm
SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY
Mary Kaldor
LSE
Law Enforcement Versus Just War
Monday, 25 October 5:30-7:00 pm
CONTINGENCY IN SCIENCE: THE ROLE OF METHODOLOGY
Nancy Cartwright and Valeria Mosini
Whewell
Wednesday, 27 October 5:00-7:00 pm
THE EVIDENCE SEMINAR
Luc Bovens
LSE
Beta Functions and Decision-Making on the Basis of Uncertain Evidence
Thursday, 28 October 5:30 - 7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Christian List
LSE
Strategy-proof Judgement Aggregation
November
Monday, 1 November 3:00-5:00 pm
CONTINGENCY IN SCIENCE: THE ROLE OF METHODOLOGY
Nancy Cartwright and Valeria Mosini
Venue: Graham Wallas Room
Monday, 1 November 5:00-6:30 pm
SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY
Joris Voorhoeve
Leiden
Post-Conflict Peace Building
Venue: Graham Wallas Room, 5th floor, Main Building
Monday, 1 November 5:15-7:00 pm (Tea at 4:45 in T116)
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
John Worrall
LSE
Is there any cause to randomise?
For further details and updates, see the Society's website at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/BSPS/Events.html|
Thursday, 4 November 5:30 - 7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Richard Bradley
LSE
Decision Theory Unified
Tuesday, 9 November 2:00-4:00 pm
POPPER SEMINAR
Alex Voorhoeve
LSE
Scanlon on Substantive Responsibility
Wednesday, 10 November 5:00-7:00 pm
THE EVIDENCE SEMINAR
Mike Redmayne
LSE
The Law of Evidence
Monday, 15 November 5:00-6:30 pm
SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY
Christian List
LSE
Experimenting with Deliberative Democracy: Effects on Policy Preferences and Social Choice
Thursday, 18 November 5:30 - 7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Martin van Hees
Gröningen
Intentions and Preferences
Wednesday, 24 November 5:00-7:00 pm
THE EVIDENCE SEMINAR
Phil Dawid
UCL
TBA
Monday, 29 November 5:00-6:30 pm
SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY
Matt Cavanaugh
Home Office
Liberalism and Multiculturalism
Tuesday, 30 November 2:00-4:00 pm
POPPER SEMINAR
Margaret Morrison
Toronto
Beyond Unity and Disunity: Emergent Phenomena and the Failure of Reductionism
December
Thursday, 2 December 5:30 - 7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Marc Fleurbaey
Pau/Oxford
Irrelevant Commodities
Monday, 6 December 5:15-7:00 pm (Tea at 4:45 in T116)
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Jeff Ketland
Cambridge
The Unfeasibility of Nominalism
For further details and updates, see the Society's website at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/BSPS/Events.html|
Tuesday, 7 December 4:00-5:30 pm
Contingency in Science: The Role of Methodology
Chairs: Nancy Catwright and Valeria Mosini
Jeremy Howick and Sheldon Steed
TBC
Wednesday, 8 December 5:00-7:00 pm
THE EVIDENCE SEMINAR
John Worrall
LSE
Evidence in Medicine