John Worrall: “The ‘Universe’ Starring Man? The Impact of Scientific Revolutions on Humankind’s View of Itself”
Many people unreflectingly think that ‘Man’ plays a special role in the Universe. Although this view was endorsed by Aristotelian cosmology, revolutionary developments in science, particularly those associated with Copernicus and with Darwin, seem to have made it entirely untenable. So what does science […]
Campbell Brown (LSE): “Priority vs. Equality: What’s the Difference?”
Abstract: Prioritarianism is often considered a preferable alternative to egalitarianism. However, seeing exactly what distinguishes these two views can be difficult. Prioritarianism says it is better to benefit the worse off (other things being equal). Egalitarianism says it is better to reduce inequality (other things being equal). But by […]
Koen Decancq (Antwerp): “Non-parametric well-being comparisons”
Abstract: We study the problem of making interpersonal well-being comparisons when individuals have heterogeneous – possibly incomplete – preferences. We present a robust – also incomplete – criterion for well-being comparisons that states that one individual is better off than another one if the intersection between the extended upper contour set of […]
Jo E. Wolff (KCL): “Absolutism about Quantity – Decision by case study?”
Recent work on physical quantities has focused on a debate over absolutism vs. comparativism about quantities. In this talk I will be interested in whether this debate can be decided by arguments from physics. I will look at several case studies from the physical sciences, some […]
The Social Lives of Microbes (Forum for Philosophy)
What are microbial societies? In what ways do they resemble human societies and in what ways do they differ? Can the same ideas that explain cooperation in larger animals also explain cooperation in microbes? And what can we learn from microbes about what it is to be human? In […]
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Ruth Byrne (University of Dublin): “Counterfactual Thought”
This talk was recorded at the LSE Workshop on Scientific Imagination and Epistemic Representations, 28 October 2016.
This one-day workshop was co-sponsored by the LSE’s Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the […]
Catharine Abell (University of Manchester): “Epistemic Problems with Eliciting Imaginings”
This talk was recorded at the LSE Workshop on Scientific Imagination and Epistemic Representations, 28 October 2016.
This one-day workshop was co-sponsored by the LSE’s Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and […]
Fiora Salis (LSE): “Capturing the Scientific Imagination”
This talk was recorded at the LSE Workshop on Scientific Imagination and Epistemic Representations, 28 October 2016.
This one-day workshop was co-sponsored by the LSE’s Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under […]
Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford): “Counterfactuals and Thought experiments”
This talk was recorded at the LSE Workshop on Scientific Imagination and Epistemic Representations, 28 October 2016.
This one-day workshop was co-sponsored by the LSE’s Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation […]
Miklós Rédei (LSE): “Properties of Bayesian learning based on conditional expectation as a conditioning device”
This talk investigates the general properties of general Bayesian learning, where “general Bayesian learning” means inferring a probability measure from another that is regarded as (uncertain) evidence, and where the inference is conditionalizing the evidence using the conditional expectation determined by a reference […]
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