[CamPhilEvents] CamPoS Lent termcard

[Dr Matt Farr]

Dear all

Welcome to 2019, and a new term of CamPoS seminars. We have the following 
line-up for Lent, as usual on Wednesdays at 1-2:30 in Seminar Room 2, 
Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Free School Lane, CB2 3RH):

23 January  Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham)
Explanatory directionality
30 January  Agnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (HPS, Cambridge)
Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies
6 February  James Nguyen (UCL)
Non-literal model interpretations
13 February Peter Epstein (Philosophy, Cambridge)
Spatial experience: more than mere structure
20 February Milena Ivanova (HPS, Cambridge)
Beauty, truth and understanding
27 February Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki)
Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic 
research collaborations
6 March Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland)
A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction
13 MarchMaarten Steenhagen (Philosophy, Cambridge)
On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics
Full details and abstracts are available at 
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos 
 and on 
the attached PDF.

All are welcome!

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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[CamPhilEvents] CamPoS Lent termcard

[Dr. Dr. J. Brian Pitts]

Dear Cambridge philosophers of science,

Please find below the CamPoS termcard for Lent, along with a list of 
speakers for Easter.  As usual, all talks are from 1-2:30 on Wednesdays 
in HPS in room 2 (the basement).

See you soon!

Brian Pitts


Lent:

24 January:  J. Brian Pitts, Philosophy:  ‘Even Observables Change in 
Hamiltonian General Relativity’

31 January:  Bennett Holman, Yonsei:  ‘Dr. Watson:  The Impending 
Automation of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment’

7 February:  Wolfgang Schwartz, Edinburgh:  ‘No Interpretation of 
Probability’

14 February:  Craig Callender, UCSD:  ‘The Sense of Time’

21 February:  no talk

28 February:  Dennis Lehmkuhl, Caltech/Einstein Papers:  ‘The 
Interpretation of Black Hole Solutions in General Relativity’

7 March:  Mazviita D. Chirimuuta, Pittsburgh:  ‘Prediction, Explanation 
and the Limits of Neuroscience’

14 March:  Rune Nyrup, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, 
‘How Archaeologists Resolve the Inductive Risk Argument’



Easter:

2 May:  Natalie Gold, KCL

9 May:  Agnes Bolinska, HPS

16 May:  no talk [Naomi Oreskes speaks elsewhere]

23 May:  Darrell Rowbottom, Lingnan/Durham




-- 
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


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[CamPhilEvents] CamPoS Lent termcard

[Dr. Dr. J. Brian Pitts]

Dear Cambridge Philosophers of Science,

Please find below the CamPoS termcard for Lent (along with a partial 
schedule for Easter!).  As usual, CamPoS meets downstairs in the HPS 
Department on Wednesdays from 1 to 2:30.  Afterwards, those who are 
interested can go with the speaker to a coffee shop.

See you next week!

Brian Pitts


Lent:

25 January:  Stephen John, Cambridge, ‘Wishful Speaking:  Science, Truth 
and Dictatorship’

1 February:  Adrian Currie, Cambridge, ‘Why Common Cause Explanation Is 
Not the Main Business of Historical Reconstruction’

8 February:  Matthew Parrott, KCL, ‘Delusional Cognition as Explanation’

15 February:  Hasok Chang, Cambridge, ‘Pragmatist Coherence as the 
Source of Truth and Reality’

22 February:  Yang Liu, Cambridge, ‘Towards A More Realistic Subjective 
Decision Theory’

1 March:  Andrew Buskell, Cambridge, ‘Why Us? The Puzzle of Hominin 
Cognition and Dynamical Accounts of Culture’

8 March:  Christopher Austin, Oxford, ‘A Biologically Informed 
Hylomorphism’

15 March:  Remco Heesen, Cambridge, ‘Why the Priority Rule Does Not 
Exist’


Easter 2017 (partial):

3 May:  TBD

10 May:  Catherine Kendig, Michigan State, TBD

17 May:  TBD

24 May:  Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech, TBD




-- 
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


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