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April 2016

In Search of Smart, Sustained and Inclusive Growth (CPNSS + REBOOT conference)

4 April 2016
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, 99 Aldwych
London, WC2B 4JF United Kingdom
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Sustained growth has been elusive globally since the Global Financial Crisis, and economies have become increasingly reliant on credit. Growth in the US or singular countries such as the UK has not created a general growth impetus either to the Eurozone, Japan or emerging countries, which are now at the end of a credit cycle. The conference will consider perspectives from…

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June 2016

Society for the History of Recent Social Science 2016 Conference

3 June 20164 June 2016
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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This two-day conference will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. #HISRESS16

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Reasons and Mental States in Decision Theory

9 June 2016, 2:15 pm10 June 2016, 7:00 pm
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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On 9–10 June this workshop will explore whether, and how, we can make progress in decision theory by modelling a decision-maker’s reasons and/or mental states. Further information is available on the conference website.

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July 2016

Foundations 2016

16 July 201618 July 2016

The LSE is hosting the The UK and European Conference on Foundations of Physics, to take place this year on 16-17 July 2016. Visit the conference website for more information.

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October 2016

Workshop on Scientific Imagination and Epistemic Representations

28 October 2016, 10:00 am5:15 pm
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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Many philosophers of science dismiss imagination as ill-suited for scientific reasoning. The notion of imagination that they assume often coincides with that of irrational or unconstrained thought that enables us to escape reality. This idea disregards the fact that imagination seems also to provide knowledge of reality. For example, imagination seems to play a role in philosophical and scientific thought experiments, scientific modelling, counterfactual reasoning, problem solving, practical deliberations about contingent facts, and more. But how can the same mental ability enable us to escape reality and also learn about it?

Four experts on imagination will address this question from the perspective of philosophy of science, epistemology, cognitive science, and aesthetics.

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November 2016

Emergence and the Limit: A Workshop in Philosophy of Physics

25 November 2016
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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Recent literature on emergence in physics and on foundational issues in statistical mechanics has stressed the importance or lack thereof of the thermodynamic limit. In this workshop we will consider various case studies portraying either emergent behaviour or other important issues in statistical mechanics and assess the indispensable vs. dispensable nature of of the thermodynamic limit (or other similar limits such as the continuum limit). Our goal is is make some headway in identifying the role that such limits may or may not play in understanding emergence, reversibility, etc.

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December 2016

History of Postwar Social Science Workshop

2 December 2016
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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This one-day workshop has been organised by Roger Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine and is supported by by the CNRS European Scientific Coordination Network (GDRE #711).

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June 2017

Fifth LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability

2 June 20173 June 2017
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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This conference will bring together researchers and graduate students in Philosophy, Psychology/Cognitive Science, Physics, Medicine, Computer Science and related fields to discuss issues in the philosophy of probability. Keynote speakers: Maria Carla Galavotti (University of Bologna) Anna Mahtani (LSE) Julia Staffel (Washington University in St Louis) Sylvia Wenmackers (KU Leuven)   Further information is available on the conference website.

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Origins of Consciousness Workshop

7 June 2017, 10:00 am5:00 pm

This one-day, interdisciplinary workshop will bring together philosophers, neuroscientists, experimental biologists and evolutionary biologists to discuss the origins of consciousness. Pre-registration is required. Further information is available on the conference website.

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October 2017

Bridging the Gap: Scientific Imagination Meets Aesthetic Imagination

5 October 2017, 9:30 am6 October 2017, 6:00 pm
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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Why, how, and when do scientists imagine, and what epistemological roles does the imagination play in scientific progress? This conference aims to connect work on artistic and scientific imagination, and to advance our understanding of the epistemic and heuristic roles that imagination can play. Further information is available of the conference website.

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December 2017

Health and Disease: Can the Biostatistical Theory Be Defended? (CPNSS Symposium)

6 December 2017, 1:00 pm4:00 pm
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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Featuring Christopher Boorse (University of Delaware), Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin-Madison & LSE) and Elselijn Kingma (Southampton University).

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September 2018

Financial Regulations Post Brexit

12 September 2018, 9:00 am12:30 pm
Clement House, room 3.02, 99 Aldwych
London, WC2B 4JF United Kingdom
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Now it is official. The UK has given up the idea of passport for the financial industry in favour of "regulatory flexibility".  The Chequers Statement says that a deal should "provide regulatory flexibility where it matters most for the UK’s services-based economy, and where the potential trading opportunities outside of the EU are the largest, recognising that the UK and the…

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November 2018

Preference-based modeling in economics

10 November 2018, 9:30 am6:00 pm
Parish Hall, Room 2.03, Sheffield St
London, WC2A 2HA United Kingdom
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The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics will host a one-day workshop on the interpretation of (revealed) preferences and preference-based modeling in economics. The methodology of revealed preference approaches and their associated behavioral interpretation of preference have been subject to seemingly devastating, long-standing criticisms from both philosophers and economists, but continue to be prevalent in economics. The talks in this workshop will explore both defenses of and alternatives to revealed preference approaches, and tackle larger questions about the methodology of economics, particularly questions around the nature and role of intention-based modeling.

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October 2019

Workshop on Individual and Collective Attitudes

3 October 2019, 3:30 pm5 October 2019, 6:00 pm
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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This three-day interdisciplinary workshop will addresses attitudes in various ways, ranging from philosophical to formal aspects, and from normative to empirical aspects.

This event is jointly organised by the French-German research project Collective Attitude Formation (ColAForm) and by the LSE Choice Group, based at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS). The named organisers are Mikael Cozic and Franz Dietrich.

The workshop is free to attend but registration is required. Please email the organisers to register.

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November 2019

Lakatos Award Expert Workshop with Henk W. de Regt

21 November 2019, 2:00 pm6:00 pm
LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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This half-day workshop will address issues raised by Henk W. de Regt’s Lakatos Award-winning book, Understanding Scientific Understanding. Further information, including the full programme, can be found on the workshop web page.

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February 2020

Trade and Financial Markets Post-Brexit. What next?

19 February 2020, 9:00 am12:00 pm
Shaw Library, Old Building, 6th Floor, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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Officially the UK Government and the European Commission enter the coming negotiations post-Brexit in a spirit of mutual respect and with the ambition to maintain a close relationship between Europe and the UK, although obviously not as close as before. However, both the UK and the EU have expressed preconditions that may put those aspirations in doubt and make them difficult to meet. This conference aims at exploring the different possible outcomes of the complex negotiations and especially the short-term and long-term consequences of the alternatives for the financial markets and the City.

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January 2021

The Challenges of Open Access Publishing in Philosophy

13 January 2021, 4:00 pm6:00 pm
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This workshop brings together philosophers and experts involved in open access publishing to share and debate their experience. All are welcome!

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January 2022

Book launch: John D. Norton – The Material Theory of Induction

13 January 2022, 5:00 pm6:00 pm
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On 13 January, LSE Philosophy will host the launch of the first volume in the BSPS Open book series: The Material Theory of Induction, by John D. Norton. Further information is available on the event web page.

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September 2022

The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties

22 September 2022, 3:00 pm23 September 2022, 6:00 pm
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While the field of statistics has a long history of passionate foundational controversy, the last decade has, in many ways, been the most dramatic. Misuses of statistics, biasing selection effects, and high-powered methods of big-data analysis, have helped to make it easy to find impressive-looking but spurious results that fail to replicate. As the crisis of replication has spread beyond psychology…

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June 2023

The Demise of the Global Market Economy and the Rise of a Two-sphere World

16 June 2023, 9:30 am5:00 pm
The Great Hall, Strand Campus, King’s College London Strand London WC2R 2LS + Google Map

About this event There is a perceived growing divide between a US-led and an a China-led sphere in technology, trade, and finance, driven both by geopolitics and by trends towards growing national self-reliance. Are we seeing the demise of the Global Market Economy? Geopolitical tensions have increased lately as EU heads of State and Government have asked for a revision…

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