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Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz): “Truth and Rationality”
Lakatos Award Lecture Truth and Rationality Speaker: Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz) Chair: Richard Bradley (LSE) Thursday 9 May; from 6 pm Hong Kong Theatre; Clement House; LSE Drawing on his Lakatos Award winning book The Laws of Belief; Wolfgang Spohn asks how is truth best characterised? And what are the relationships between truth and what it is rational to…
Find out more »Lakatos Award Workshop in Philosophy of Physics
Workshop Webpage Workshop in honour of the Lakatos Award winners, Laura Ruetsche and David Wallace. Speakers will include: Gordon Belot (Michigan), Eleanor Knox (KCL), Laura Ruetsche (Michigan), Nicholas Teh (Cambridge, Notre Dame), David Wallace (Oxford). For more information visit the workshop webpage.
Find out more »Lakatos Award Ceremony
Public ceremony featuring public lectures by Laura Ruetsche and David Wallace in honour of their having received the Lakatos Award.
Find out more »Lakatos Award Workshop on Geometry and Physics
Gordon Belot and David Malament together with Fay Dowker and Klaas Landsman will participate in a 1-day workshop on geometry and physics, in honour of their winning of the 2014 Lakatos Award. #LSELakatos
Find out more »Lakatos Award Lectures and Ceremony
Lectures by the 2014 Lakatos Award winners, Gordon Belot and David Malament, followed by a public award ceremony. #LSELakatos
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Lectures by the 2015 and 2016 Lakatos Award winners, Thomas Pradeu and Brian Epstein, followed by a public award ceremony.
Find out more »Lakatos Award Lectures 2018
Lectures by the 2018 Lakatos Award winners, Craig Callender and Sabina Leonelli, followed by a public award ceremony.
Find out more »Lakatos Award Expert Workshop with Henk W. de Regt
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.
Find out more »Lakatos Award Lecture 2019
It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society. But what precisely is scientific understanding, and when is it achieved?
In his Lakatos Award winning book Understanding Scientific Understanding (OUP, 2017), Professor Henk W. de Regt develops a philosophical theory of scientific understanding that answers these questions. In contrast to most existing studies in this area, de Regt's approach takes into account scientists’ views on understanding and their role in scientific debate and development. In this lecture, Professor de Regt will outline his theory of scientific understanding and illustrate it with examples from the history of physics.
Find out more »Workshop: Representation in Cognitively Driven Simulation
Lakatos Award: Workshop and Award Lecture on 9 March 2023 Part 1: Workshop Workshop: Representation in Cognitively Driven Simulation Room LAK2.06, Lakatos Building, LSE How in reasoning and planning does compositional conceptual thought interact with other cognitive and perceptual systems, including through simulation, imagination and prospection? Chair: Jonathan Birch (LSE) 11.00 Welcome (Jonathan Birch) and introduction to the workshop (Nick…
Find out more »Lakatos Award Lecture by Nicholas Shea (University of London/University of Oxford): Making Good Decisions with a Very Human Brain
Lakatos Award Lecture 6.00pm, Thursday 9 March 2023, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Who makes better decisions? Computers or humans? It takes two types of cognitive process, and for now, the human brain still has the edge … Artificial neural networks using massively parallel processing are beating us at tasks like classifying images, playing strategic games and even naturalistic…
Find out more »Lakatos Award Expert Workshop
Join us for the Lakatos Award Expert Workshop! When and where Tuesday, 2 May, 1.30pm-5.00pm, LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building, LSE Campus The event is free and open to all! No registration needed for the in-person meeting. In case you would like to join online, please register via Zoom. Programme Chair: Lewis Ross (LSE) 1.30pm – 2.10pm Tim Gowers (University of Cambridge…
Find out more »Lakatos Award Lecture by Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Join us as Catarina Dutilh Novaes gives a public lecture on her Lakatos Award winning book, The Dialogical Roots of Deduction. When and where Tuesday, 2 May, 6.00pm-7.15pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House , LSE Campus The event is free and open to all! Link to the YouTube Live Stream. Speaker and chair Catarina Dutilh Novaes (@cdutilhnovaes) is Professor of Philosophy…
Find out more »Lakatos Award Lecture by Michela Massimi
Join us as Michela Massimi gives a public lecture on her Lakatos Award winning book, Perspectival Realism. Time: 6.00pm–7:15pm Place: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE Campus Speaker: Michela Massimi Michela Massimi is a Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. She works…
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