Dear all
The second CamPoS seminar of Michaelmas term will be given by Sahanika
Ratnayake <https://cambridge.academia.edu/SahanikaRatnayake>, PhD student in
the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge. Details as follows:
Time: Wednesday 6 November, 1-2:30pm
Place: Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Free
School Lane, CB2 3RH)
Title: An Appraisal Of Scientific Reasoning As Therapy In Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy
Abstract: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the most popular
schools of contemporary psychotherapy. One of the reasons for CBT's success is
its ability to present itself as 'scientific'. This claim to scientific
legitimacy not only influences how CBT's efficacy is established, but also
influences its therapeutic techniques.
Aspects of scientific reasoning and the scientific method are used as
part of CBT's arsenal of therapeutic techniques. For instance, clients are
encouraged to evaluate problematic thoughts – referred to as 'cognitive
distortions' – by testing them as if they were hypotheses.
In this paper, I will examine CBT's account of cognitive distortions
and the way in which scientific reasoning is used to evaluate and rectify them.
I shall suggest that these therapeutic techniques cannot be working in the
straightforward manner that CBT claims they are, as they fall afoul of some
traditional objections from the philosophy of science.
Full information about the talk is here:
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/132100
The term card for the rest of Michaelmas 2019 is as follows:
13 November Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester)
The replication crisis and philosophy
20 November Enno Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Actual causation
27 November Bryan W. Roberts (LSE)
The good news about killing people
4 December Jonathan Birch (LSE)
The search for invertebrate consciousness
All details for CamPoS are available at
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos
<https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos>
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The HPS department can provide assisted step-free access to Seminar Room 2 by
arrangement via the back door to the Whipple Museum (which has a lift that can
take a person to all levels) and also the Library (which also has assisted lift
access to all levels). For further details please contact the HPS Reception
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, or consult the
university's Building Access Guide
<https://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/building-access-guide
<https://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/building-access-guide>>.
All are welcome.
All the best
Matt
Dr Matt Farr • Teaching Associate in Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge • Department of History & Philosophy of Science
Free School Lane | Cambridge | CB2 3RH
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