I will distinguish two ways in which these “”great general principles”” (such as the conservation laws) might hold: as constraints on the first-order laws of… Continue Reading M. Lange, There sweep great general principles which all the laws seem to follow
Please join us for our March colloquium, presented by Michela Massimi. The abstract is as follows: I analyse the exploratory function of two main modelling practices:… Continue Reading M. Massimi, Two kinds of exploratory models
This talk is concerned with the machine culture of the Second Industrial Revolution and the contemporary emergence of the subfield of philosophy of technology. Philosophers… Continue Reading A. Voskuhl, Engineering philosophy: machine culture and social and intellectual elites in the Second Industrial Revolution
In his *Harmonics*, Ptolemy (2nd century CE) outlines a strategy for obtaining and refining scientific knowledge through alternating appeals to sense perception and to reason,… Continue Reading A. Jones, Ptolemy’s Epistemological Arsenal
We will be discussing: Misak, Cheryl, “Ch. 8 The foundations are so philosophical” in Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers Participants are expected to… Continue Reading Research seminar with Cheryl Misak
Robert Boyle favoured mechanical explanations on account of their ability to persuade: I shall explore the earliest debates about the adequacy of mechanical analogies to… Continue Reading S. Berryman, Satisfaction to Ingenious Minds’: Powers, Mathematics and Mechanics in ancient Greek Natural Philosophy
A good theory of nature should be “natural,” according to theoretical physicists. In the foundations of physics, naturalness has obtained a mathematical definition and it… Continue Reading S. Hossenfelder, Lost in Math – How Beauty Misleads Physics
We will be discussing: Rasmussen, Nicolas, “Group Weight Loss and Multiple Screening: A Tale of Two Heart Disease Programs and the Problems of Postwar American… Continue Reading Research seminar with Nick Rasmussen
This event has been postponed due to illness. Discussions of climate change reveal a deep disconnect in our thinking about environmental issues in the human-dominated… Continue Reading G. Barker, Coming to Terms with the Organic: Emerging Perspectives for the Global Environmental Crisis (Event Postponed)
We will be discussing: Darden, Lindley, Lipika R. Pal, Kunal Kundu, and John Moult (in press), “The Product Guides the Process: Discovering Disease Mechanisms,” Building… Continue Reading Research Seminar with Dr. Lindley Darden – The Product Guides the Process: Discovering Disease Mechanisms