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SUMMARY:Naomi Oreskes: Merchants of Doubt: Using History and Philosophy of Science to Understand the Climate Change Debate
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nOn vital issues such as genetically-modified foods and climate change\, having correct scientific knowledge is vital for making good public policy. How does philosophy help us understand science? How strong is the scientific consensus about climate change\, and the effects our species has on it? Naomi Oreskes\, co-author of the award-winning book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming\, has studied the climate change debate as a historian and philosopher\, and will explore the above questions\, and more. Oreskes courageous work to expose deliberate attempts to sow confusion and doubt about important issues\, such as climate change\, is not based in rhetoric\, as it is with some of the ‘merchants of doubt’ she writes about\, but on looking at science using philosophical techniques. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nNaomi Oreskes is an American historian of science\, and Professor at Harvard University (where she moved in Summer 2013 from the University of California\, San Diego). She has worked on studies of geophysics\, environmental issues such as global warming\, and the history of science. In 2010\, Oreskes co-authored Merchants of Doubt\, which identified parallels between the climate change debate and earlier public controversies. \nRead more about Naomi Oreskes. \nThe evening will be moderated by Paul Kennedy\, host of Ideas on CBC Radio One. \n  \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/naomi-oreskes-merchants-doubt-using-history-philosophy-science-understand-climate-change-debate/
LOCATION:Great Hall – Somerville House\, Somerville House\, Western University\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ecological Philosophy,Public Events,Public Lectures,Rotman Lectures
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SUMMARY:Rotman 2013 Annual Conference: Science and Reality
DESCRIPTION:CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION\n\nScience has changed the ways we think of\, and act on\, the world. But do we really understand the relation between scientific theories and the world? Are there different perspectives on the world? How can it be that science\, a characteristically human and social endeavour\, yields successful predictions and fruitful explanations? What is the role of mathematics in shaping the structure of explanation in science? How do the various theories and disciplines hang together in crafting the scientific image of the world? Is this image a product of synthesis or rivalry between theories? Can we be\, or indeed ought we be\, confident about the scientific image of the world? Can the history of science teach us how to do better science and how to limit or enhance the cognitive aspirations of modern science? What is the role of chance in science? How does probability enter the scientific image? What does science tell us about the natural laws and causation\, which David Hume called\, ‘the cement of the universe’? \nThese are distinctively philosophical questions at the core of general philosophy of science as well as the philosophies of the various sciences. They have been pursued by philosophers and philosophically-minded scientists\, highlighting the engagement of science with philosophy and of philosophy with science. Stathis Psillos\, in his work on scientific realism and the metaphysics of science\, and Carl Hoefer\, in his research on the structure of spacetime and objective chance in science\, have addressed these questions and have demonstrated that philosophy of science can aim to offer enlightening and exciting answers to them both at the general level of science as a cognitive enterprise and the particular level of concrete scientific theories. \nDownload conference poster. \nSCHEDULE\n\nThis conference\, an event welcoming Carl Hoefer and Stathis Psillos to Western and the Rotman Institute\, brings together an exceptional international panel of leading philosophers of science whose work has set the standards in many debates to discuss the relation(s) between science and reality and to advance\, with fresh ideas\, arguments and approaches\, our thinking about the connections between scientific theories and reality. \nRichard Boyd (Cornell University) – More Correspondence\, Not Less; and Causation Too \nCraig Callender (University of California\, San Diego) – LOST IN SPACE: Is the Quantum State It or Bit? \nWilliam L. Harper (Western University – Emeritus) – Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method \nJenann Ismael (University of Arizona) – Against Ontic Chances: Three Cheers for the Third Way on Objective Probabilities \nElaine Landry (University of California\, Davis) – Structural Realism and Category Mistakes \nMarc Lange (University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill) – Aspects of Mathematical Explanation \nMargaret Morrison (University of Toronto) – Why Perspectivism is Philosophically Idle \nElliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Parsimony and Chimpanzee Mind-Reading \nJohn Worrall (London School of Economics) – Real (“Ramsey –Sentence”) Structural Realism: Why Psillos is Wrong \nVIDEO PLAYLIST
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/rotman-annual-conference-2013-science-reality/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Annual Rotman Conferences,Conference,Philosophy of Science
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