Dear Cambridge Philosophers of Science, Tomorrow (Wednesday), 30 November, our last CamPoS speaker for the term will be Prof. Stefan Hartmann, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU-Munich, speaking on ‘Assessing Scientific Theories’. His abstract is below.
Sincerely, Brian Pitts Abstract: Scientific theories are usually assessed in the light of their empirical consequences. But how shall one proceed if a theory, such as string theory or proposals for a quantum theory of gravity, has no empirical consequences (yet)? Are such theories scientific at all? The goal of this talk is to identify two recent argumentation schemes (viz. the no-alternatives argument and analogue simulation) and to show how they can be analysed and assessed in the framework of Bayesian confirmation theory. -- J. Brian Pitts Senior Research Associate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge jb...@cam.ac.uk Ph.D., Philosophy/History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
