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Peter Sozou (CPNSS): “Computational Scientific Discovery”
Is there a role for computers in the formulation of scientific concepts? Scientific discovery can take various forms: direct observational discovery, finding empirical rules, and discovery of theories. I will begin by considering the roots of scientific discovery and the basic nature of (human) discovery processes. I will then survey methods and associated applications in computational scientific discovery, covering: massive systematic search within a defined space; rule-based reasoning systems; classification, machine vision and related techniques; data mining; finding networks; evolutionary computation; and automation of scientific experiments. I conclude with a discussion of the future of computational scientific discovery.
Find out more »Michael Hunter (University of California, Davis): “Germ-line or Somatic mutations? The pitfalls and concerns for deleting and replacing the concept of race in human genetics”
Abstract: Across the recent history of Population Genetics, there have been a number of calls by historians of science, philosophers of science, social scientists and biologists themselves for dealing with the concept of "race" in Population Biology. Most recently, in the article written by Yudell et al. (2016), the authors advocate that scientific journals and professional societies should encourage use…
Find out more »Colin Elliot (Tilburg): “Pragmatism and objectivity in subjective Bayesianism” + Jurgis Karpus (KCL): “Team Reasoning in Intertemporal Choice: A Game-Theoretic Account of Self-Control”
In this week's meeting of the Choice Group, Colin Elliot (Tilburg) discusses two of the more controversial aspects of Bruno de Finetti's subjective Bayesianism – the role of operationalism and the status of de Finetti's theory as a theory of rationality – and Jurgis Karpus (KCL) presents a game-theoretic account of self-control.
Find out more »History of Postwar Social Science Workshop
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).
Find out more »Monstrosity (the Forum)
Why is art preoccupied with monsters? What can we learn about a society from the kinds of monsters it imagines? Today, when traditional ideas of the human cannot account for advances in biology and technology, can monstrous figures help us to better understand our changing sense of ourselves?
Find out more »Jossi Berkovitz (Toronto): “De Finetti’s Instrumentalist Philosophy of Probability”
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Find out more »Marta Halina (Cambridge HPS): “The role of values in animal cognition research” (BSPS Lecture)
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Find out more »Michael Stuart (CPNSS) – TBA
Abstract TBA. Michael T. Stuart is a postdoctoral fellow at the London School of Economics, interested in the epistemological nature and function of the imagination in science.
Find out more »Donald MacKenzie (Edinburgh): “A Material Sociology of Markets: the Case of ‘Futures Lag’ in High-Frequency Trading” (Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture)
This talk (about automated trading) will develop the case for an integrated "material sociology" view of markets, as both social institutions and technical systems.
Find out more »Karim Thébault (Bristol): “Cosmic Singularity Resolution via Quantum Evolution” (BSPS Lecture)
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Find out more »Eleanor Knox (KCL): TBA
Abstract: TBA Dr Eleanor Knox is a Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London. #SigmaClub
Find out more »Heather Dyke (LSE): “Experience of Passage in a Static World” (BSPS Lecture)
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