Dear all,
Welcome to the regular Michaelmas CamPOS term. I hope that you all have
seen the CamPOS termcard and perhaps attended the special event with Sam
Schweber. This week, in fact today, we have Raphael Scholl of Cambridge
HPS speaking on 'The Argument from the Good Lot: Unconceived
Alternatives and 20th Century Genetics'. This will be in the usual time
Wednesday 1-2:30pm in Seminar Room 2.
The termcard is hereby revised, however---see attached or below for it.
Next week's speaker has changed. Alison Wylie has become unable to
speak at CamPOS on 21 October, though she has other events in the
department later in the week. For more on her work, see below.
Instead we will get to hear Bernhard Salow of Trinity College speak on
'Expecting Misleading Evidence'. We were going to hear from Bernhard
during Lent term, but he has kindly moved his talk up.
There is also a special event on thermal/statistical physics at Trinity
College on Saturday, 14 November with David Wallace twice, James
Ladyman, and Roman Frigg.
I asked Alison Wylie if she had some papers that approximated the
content of her now-cancelled talk. She sent me two: the 2012 APA
Pacific presidential address "Feminist Philosophy of Science:
Standpoint Matters" and "Why Standpoint Matters" in _Science and Other
Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology_, edited by
Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding (2003). If you would like copies,
please let me know.
Brian Pitts
Thurs 17 Sept 4:00-5:30 Sam Schweber Harvard, Brandeis
‘On the Transformation of “Fundamental” Physics in the Decade 1975-1985’
Wed 14 Oct Raphael Scholl HPS, Cambridge
‘The Argument from the Good Lot: Unconceived Alternatives and 20th
Century Genetics’
Wed 21 Oct Bernhard Salow Trinity College
‘Expecting Misleading Evidence’
Wed 28 Oct Shahar Avin CSER, Cambridge
‘Simulating Scientific Merit Dynamics’
Wed 4 Nov Catrin Campbell-Moore Corpus Christi, Cambridge
‘Imprecise Credences and the Probabilistic Liar’
Wed 11 Nov Jacob Stegenga Utah
‘Absolute Measures of Effectiveness’
Sat 14 Nov 10:00-11:00 David Wallace Oxford, Southern Cal
‘Quantum Aspects of Statistical Mechanics’
11:30-12:30 David Wallace ‘Two Kinds of Maxwell’s Demon’
2:00-3:00 James Ladyman Bristol ‘Is Thermodynamics a Control
Theory? If So What Follows, and If Not What Is It?’
3:30-4:30 Roman Frigg LSE ‘Rethinking Equilibrium’
Wed 18 Nov no talk
Wed 25 Nov Sang Wook Yi Hanyang, HPS Cambridge
‘Landauer on the Physical Nature of Information’
Wed 2 Dec Maria Serban LSE
‘On Geometrical Concepts, Proofs, and Understanding in Pure and Applied
Mathematics’
--
J. Brian Pitts
Senior Research Associate
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Cambridge
[email protected]
Ph.D., Philosophy/History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre
Dame
Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin
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