Dear all, The brand new CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar series begins this Wednesday, 10 October, 1-2:30pm in HPS Seminar Room 2. Dean Rickles, from the University of Sydney, will give a talk entitled "All possible perspectives: a defence of Eddington's selective subjectivism". The abstract is below.
All are very welcome, and we hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join Dean and others for dinner in the Anchor pub at 7pm on Wednesday, please let me know by 6pm tomorrow (Monday). Best wishes, Vashka -- Eddington's astrophysical acumen is beyond doubt. However, for much of his later life he was developing a highly original and rather audacious philosophical picture of physical science according to which all fundamental laws, including the constants and parameters appearing therein, are epistemological in origin. This picture (blending observer selection bias and structuralism) was, with a few notable exceptions, roundly condemned by philosophers and physicists alike. In this talk I attempt a (partial) defence of Eddington's philosophy of science, focusing on the centrality of observation and observables in his work and on the overlap between this and recent work on the interpretation of general relativity. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
