Dear all,
Just a reminder that Georgie Statham will be speaking at the SMG today
at 2pm in the philosophy faculty board room. Further details below.
Best wishes,
Matthew Simpson
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SUBJECT:
[CamPhilEvents] Serious Metaphysics - 23rd May - Georgie
Statham -
Causal Claims in Organic Chemistry
DATE:
16-05-2014 11:13
FROM:
Matthew Simpson <[email protected]>
TO:
Phil Events <[email protected]>,
[email protected], Phil Metaphysics
<[email protected]>
Dear all,
The next meeting of the Serious Metaphysics Group will be delayed by two
days in order not to clash with the metaontology workshop, and will take
place on FRIDAY 23RD MAY AT 2PM in the faculty Board Room. Our speaker,
who has been very tolerant of my dithering about the date and time, is
Georgie Statham, who will be giving a talk entitled _Causal Claims in
Organic Chemistry_ (abstract below).
I hope to see you there.
Best wishes,
Matthew Simpson
Georgie Statham - _Causal claims in organic chemistry_
"Although there is a significant literature on causation (or causal
claims) in both physics and biology, little has been written on
causation in chemistry, and even less has been said about causation in
organic chemistry, in particular. However, chemists do speak in causal
terms, and think of chemical reactions as causal processes. There is
therefore a gap in the literature, which I intend go some way towards
filling in this paper.
I discuss three different kinds of causal judgements made in organic
chemistry, which I call 'contrastive', 'deviant' and 'mechanistic', and
use Woodward's manipulability theory to account for each of these kinds
of claim. My particular focus is on the role played by notions of
normality in these causal judgements: I show that notions of normality
play an important (but different) role in at least two of the kinds of
causal claim that I discuss."
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Matthew Simpson
PhD Student in Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
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