April
Tuesday, 26 April 5:00 - 7:00 pm
"PLURALISM IN ECONOMICS" SEMINAR
Stephen Pratten
Kings College London
Can we Explain Social Reality Without Resorting to Fictions? Ontological
Theorising and the Assumptions Issue in Economics
Wednesday, 27 April 10:00-1:00 pm
LAKATOS AWARD WINNER SEMINAR
Kim Sterelny
Victoria University of Wellington and Australian National University
Realism In Ecology
The Evolution And Evolvability of Culture
Thursday, 28 April 5:30-7:30 pm
LAKATOS AWARD PUBLIC LECTURE
Kim Sterelny
Victoria University of Wellington and Australian National University
The Peculiar Primate
Venue: Old Theatre, LSE
May
Friday, 6 May 2.30-6.30pm
CPNSS/ ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
Philosophy Across the Borders: Italy Meets Britain
Enrico Moriconi
University of Pisa
Peano and Russell
Peter Williams
University of Sussex
Bruno de Finetti's Philosophy of Probability
Umberto Bottazzini.
University of Milan
Federigo Enriques: Between Science and Philosophy
Donald Gillies
UCL
Carlo Cellucci: a Contemporary Italian Pphilosopher of Logic and Mathematics
Chairs: Pierluigi Barrotta (ICI), Eleonora Montuschi (LSE)
Venue: Room G108 (20 Kingsway)
The event is free and open to all with no ticket required.
Monday, 9 May 4:00 - 6:00pm
SIGMA CLUB
Michela Massimi
Cambridge
Where Kuhnian Incommensurability Leaves Us: a Lesson from the Crisis of the Old Quantum Theory|
Tuesday, 10 May 2:00-4:00 pm
POPPER SEMINAR
Robert Sugden
East Anglia
Experiments as Exhibits and Experiments as Tests
Tuesday, 10 May 5:30-7:00 pm
DISSENT IN SCIENCE
4:00- 5:30 pm Rod O'Donnell
Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney
Keynes's Principles of Writing (Innovative) Economics
5:30-7:00 pm Marcello Cini
Physics, Universita' La Sapienza, Roma
Thought and Actual Experiments in QM: Any Lessons for Economics?
Wednesday, 11 May 5:00-7:00 pm
THE EVIDENCE SEMINAR
Deborah G. Mayo
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg &
Frequentist Statistics as a Theory of Inductive Inference
(co-authored with D.R. Cox, Statistics, Nuffield)
Tuesday, 17 May 5:00 - 7:00 pm
"PLURALISM IN ECONOMICS" SEMINAR
Sue Himmelweit
Open University and LSE Gender Institute
When is Economics Feminist?
Wednesday, 18 May 5:30-7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Adam Oliver
LSE
Some Empirical Ethics: QALY Maximisation Versus a Fair Innings in Health Care Decision Making
Monday, 23 May 4:00 - 6:00pm
SIGMA CLUB
Mauricio Suárez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Quantum Propensities and the Problem of Measurement|
Tuesday, 24 May 5:30-7:00 pm
DISSENT IN SCIENCE
Donald Gillies
Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Can Mathematics Be Used Successfully in Economics?
Wednesday, 25 May 5:30-7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Marek Kaminski
University of California, Irvine
Games Prisoners Play
Friday, 27- Saturday, 28 May 10:00 - 7:00 pm
TWO DAY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
For those interested in attending the conference please contact: phil_confs_2005@lse.ac.uk |
Tuesday, 31 May 11:00 - 1:00pm
SIGMA CLUB
Armond Duwell
University of Konstanz
Quantum Information Does Exist|
June
Wednesday, 1 June 5:30-7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Keith Dowding
LSE
Counterfactual Success and Negative Freedom
Monday, 6 June 5:15 - 7:00 pm
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Colin Howson
LSE
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Tuesday, 7 June 2:00-4:00 pm
POPPER SEMINAR
Carl Hoefer
Barcelona
The Problems of Micro-chance Reductionism|
Tuesday, 7 June 5:30-7:00 pm
DISSENT IN SCIENCE
Grazia Ietto Gillies
Economics, London South Bank University:
An Application of Keynes's Causa Causans to The Globalization Process
Wednesday, 8 June 5:30-7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Jörn Rothe
LSE
Rationality, Uncertainty and Equilibrium in Games
Friday,10- Saturday, 11 June 10:00am -7:00pm
TWO DAY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
For those interested in attending the conference please contact: phil_confs_2005@lse.ac.uk |
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Friday, 10th June
10:00
10:30 - 11:30
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Registration
Caroline Baumann
Cambridge
A Kripkean Analysis of the Concept of Genuine Rule-Following
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11:30 - 12:30
Lunch Break
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Lorenzo Bernasconi
Cambridge
Wittgenstein, Rule-Following and Giddens' 'Theory of Structuration'
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2:00 - 3:00
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Åsa Andersson
Lund University
Social Ontology - The Foundation of the Social Sciences?
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3:00 - 4:00
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David Tyfield
Exeter
From SSK to ESK? The Potential and Problems
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4:00 - 5.00
Coffee Break
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Christophe Heintz
Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Cognitive Studies as the Missing Piece of the Strong Programme
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5:30 - 7:00
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Barry Barnes
Exeter
Keynote Lecture
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Saturday, 11th June
10:00 - 11:00
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Lilian OBrien
Brown University
Explaining Intentional Actions: Understanding them as Rational
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11:00 - 12:00
Lunch Break
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Jaakko Kuorikoski and Aki Lehtinen
University of Helsinki
Shades of Rationality: The Role of Intentionality in the Economic
Unification of the Social Sciences
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1:00 - 2:00
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Adam Levine
University of Michigan
(Re-)Defining the Rational Agent: The Motivational Aspect of Identity
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2:00 - 3:00
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Olivier Roy
University of Amsterdam
Does Game Theory Have Something to Do with Plans?
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3:00 - 4:00
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Zoe Gilbert
University of Bristol
Game Theory versus Gauthier in the Fight for Rational Cooperation
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Monday, 13 June 2005
ONE-DAY CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF NANCY CARTWRIGHT'S
SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY
Reasoning, Models and Causes
Venue: Old Theatre, LSE
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Morning Session
Emma Rothschild
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Chair
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Lorraine Daston
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Reason and its Histories
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Mary Morgan
Margaret Morrison
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Ideal Types, Idealization and Caricature Models
Modelling The Dappled World: Why We Need Unifying Principles After All
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Afternoon Session
Carl Hoefer
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Chair
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Gerd Gigerenzer
David Hendry
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The Rationality Debate: Is The Mind Boundedly Rational And What Does It Mean?
Automatic Model Selection: Making Economics Scientific
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Nancy Cartwright
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Comments
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The venue will be the Old Theatre, LSE, with a reception after the Conference in the Senior Dining Room. There is no registration fee. For further information, contact Professor Colin Howson, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE.
Tuesday, 14 June 5:00 - 7:00 pm
"PLURALISM IN ECONOMICS" SEMINAR
Giuseppe Fontana
Leeds University Business School and Clare Hall, Cambridge
The Future of Post Keynesian Economics
Wednesday, 15 June 5:30-7:00 pm
CHOICE GROUP SEMINARS
Franz Dietrich
Konstanz
TBA
Tuesday, 21 June 2:00-4:00 pm
POPPER SEMINAR
Tim Crane
UCL
The Efficacy of Colour, Shape and Size|
Tuesday, 21 June 5:30-7:00 pm
DISSENT IN SCIENCE
Max Steuer
LSE
Dissent: Level Three
Monday, 27 June 6:00 - 7:30 pm
ANNUAL CPNSS PUBLIC LECTURE
Simon Singh
Science Writer
BIG BANG - The History of the Universe in 60 Minutes
Chair: Jeremy Butterfield
All Souls College Oxford
Venue: Old Theatre, LSE
Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Broome Symposium
One-Day Book Symposium on John Broome's (2004) Weighing Lives, Oxford: OUP
Venue: Lakatos Building, Room T206, London School of Economics and Political Science