Conjectures and Refutations

Conjectures and Refutations is a new seminar series for philosophers and scientists with a shared interest in the philosophy of science. The seminars cover topics in the philosophy of science broadly understood, with a special focus on general philosophy of science and those branches of science not already covered by the Choice Group and Sigma Club. Conjectures and Refutations is a venue for scientifically informed philosophy as well as philosophically informed science. Seminars take place regularly throughout term-time and are free and open to all.

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• Susana Monsó (Messerli Research Institute, Vienna): “Schrödinger’s possum: How animals experience and understand death”

  25 May, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Sean A. Valles (Michigan State): TBA

  8 June, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Rachell Powell (Boston): TBA

  15 June, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Richard Moore (Warwick): “Learning (to learn) from others”

  30 March, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Cordelia Fine (Melbourne): “Nothing to see here: Male dominance and androcentrism in academic finance”

  16 February, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• David Stainforth (LSE): “Characteristics that Frame the Study of Climate Change”

  19 January, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Kristin Andrews (York, Toronto): “Can Animals Be Moral?”

  7 December 2020, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge): “Sex Differences in Sexual Desire”

  17 November 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Carlos Gray Santana (Utah): “Landfills deserve love too: novel ecosystem as a normative category”

  3 November 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• Colin Allen (Pitt): “Temporal Binding as a Marker of Causal Cognition in Non Human Animals”

  20 October 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• ONLINE: Kevin Zollman (Carnegie Mellon): “Scientific diversity and the theoretical virtues”

  26 May 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• ONLINE: Barbara Webb (Edinburgh): “Representations and the insect brain”

  19 May 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at Online via Zoom

• CANCELLED: Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech): “The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties”

  24 March 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at LAK 2.06