Starting Thurs at 3.30....some philosophy! Best, Jeremy B
------ Jeremy Butterfield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Homepage: http://trin-hosts.trin.cam.ac.uk/fellows/butterfield/ Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Tel: 01223 761524 (office); 07557-668413 (mobile) Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:51:34 +0000 From: Richard Staley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: HPS departmental seminar, 3:30 pm 29 Jan: Sherrilyn Roush on The rationality of science in relation its history Sherrilyn Roush (Kings College London) will speak at the History and Philosophy of Science Departmental Seminar this Thursday, 29 January at 3:30pm (note our new starting time!) on The Rationality of Science in Relation to its History Many philosophers have thought that Kuhns claim that there have been paradigm shifts introduced a problem for the rationality of science, because it appears that in such a change nothing can count as a neutral arbiter; even what you observe depends on which theory you already subscribe to. The history of science challenges its rationality in a different way in the pessimistic induction, where failures of our predecessors to come up with true theories about unobservable entities is taken by many to threaten the rationality of confidence in our own theories. The first problem arises from a perception of uncomfortably much discontinuity, the second from an unfortunate kind of continuity, in the track record of science. I argue that both problems are only apparent, and due to under-description of the history. The continuing appeal of the pessimistic induction in particular is encouraged by narrow focus on a notion of method that Kuhn was particularly eager to resist. Tea and biscuits will be available from 3pm in Seminar Room 1 Seminar Location: Seminar Room 2 Department of the History and Philosophy of Science Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RH Following the talk we will go to the pub, and on to dinner. All are welcome! -- Dr Richard Staley Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RH United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0)1223 334555 Fax: + 44 (0)1223 334554 http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/
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