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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• Carlos Gray Santana (Utah): TBA

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

• Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge): TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Samir Okasha (Bristol): “On the very idea of biological individuality”

  25 February, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at LAK 2.06

• Marta Halina (Cambridge): “Creative problem solving in AI”

  21 January, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at LAK 2.06

• Thom Scott-Phillips (Central European University): “The Art Experience”

  3 December 2019, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm at LAK 2.06

• Peter Achinstein (Johns Hopkins): “Epistemic Simplicity: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel”

  26 November 2019, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm at LAK 2.06

• Stephen John (Cambridge HPS): “Epistemic risk paternalism”

  15 October 2019, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm at LAK 2.06

• Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech): “Severe Testing: A Conjecture Passes a Severe Test Only if a Refutation Would Probably Have Occurred if it’s False”

  3 June 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at LAK 2.06

• Marius Backmann (Konstanz): “Necessarily the Old Riddle – Necessary Connections, Laws of Nature, and the Problem of Induction”

  20 May 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at LAK 2.06