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SUMMARY:Bas van Fraassen: The Self\, From a Logical Point of View
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nOur sense of self is readily extrapolated to engender paradoxes\, but that sense is not easily dismissed even when the logical aporiai are exposed. \nWhat Kant called the illusions of reason beckon here\, but their false promises may be shown up if we subject the possibility of ‘objective’ scientific accounts of ourselves to a deeper logical scrutiny. Can we avoid the logical difficulties by trying instead to ‘naturalize’ and understand ourselves in the same way as we understand natural systems? There too logical paradoxes may return\, and I will discuss the implications of Thomason’s paradox for the language of belief. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nBastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University\, teaching courses in the philosophy of science\, philosophical logic and the role of models in scientific practice. He previously taught at Yale University\, the University of Southern California (USC)\, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He coined the term “constructive empiricism” in his 1980 book The Scientific Image\, in which he argued for agnosticism about the reality of unobservable entities. \nRead more about Bas van Fraassen. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/bas-van-fraassen-self-logical-point-view/
LOCATION:Great Hall – Somerville House\, Somerville House\, Western University\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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SUMMARY:Bas van Fraassen: The Semantic Approach to Science\, After 50 Years
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThe 1960s saw many revolutions\, worldwide\, and some of that epoch’s revolutionary spirit manifested itself in philosophy of science\, with strong reactions against the dominant ‘received view’ of Logical Positivism. Scientific realism emerged to dispute ontology\, Kuhn single-handedly turned our eyes back to history of science\, and the semantic approach replaced the methodological framework for philosophers of science. The Logical Positivist revolution had just about reached age 50 at the time; today the semantic approach is about 50 years old as well. I will discuss its development\, fortunes and misfortunes\, suggest that a new\, third revolution is due\, and invite speculation about what it might be. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nBastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University\, teaching courses in the philosophy of science\, philosophical logic and the role of models in scientific practice. He previously taught at Yale University\, the University of Southern California (USC)\, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He coined the term “constructive empiricism” in his 1980 book The Scientific Image\, in which he argued for agnosticism about the reality of unobservable entities. \nRead more about Bas van Fraassen. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/bas-van-fraassen-semantic-approach-science-50-years/
LOCATION:Room 1145 – Stevenson Hall\, Stevenson Hall\, Room 1145\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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SUMMARY:Joel Lexchin: Those Who Have the Gold Make the Evidence: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Clinical Trials
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nPharmaceutical companies fund the bulk of clinical research and this funding can introduce biases into the research through methods such as influencing the choice of standards of comparison\, only publishing positive trials\, reinterpreting data submitted to regulatory agencies\, ghostwriting\, and the use of “seeding” trials. There is no evidence that any of the measures introduced so far have stopped this bias and it’s not clear that they have even slowed down the process. What is needed is a paradigm change in the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and the conduct and reporting of clinical trials. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nDr. Lexchin is an emergency physician at The University Health Network and a Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is co-author of Drugs of Choice: A Formulary for General Practice and author of Drug Therapy for Emergency Physicians. \nRead more about Joel Lexchin. \nVIDEO\n\n \nThis event is co-sponsored by Situating Science.
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/joel-lexchin-gold-make-evidence-pharmaceutical-industry-clinical-trials/
LOCATION:Room 1145 – Stevenson Hall\, Stevenson Hall\, Room 1145\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ethics,Science and Values
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Werndl: Confirmation and Calibration in Climate Science
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nI argue that concerns about double-counting – using the same evidence both to calibrate or tune climate models and also to confirm that the models are adequate – deserve more careful scrutiny in climate modelling circles. It is widely held that double-counting is bad and that separate data must be used for calibration and confirmation. I show that this is not true\, and that climate scientists may be confusing their targets. My analysis turns on a Bayesian/relative-likelihood approach to incremental confirmation. According to this approach\, double-counting is entirely proper. I go on to discuss plausible difficulties with calibrating climate models\, and I distinguish more and less ambitious notions of confirmation. Strong claims of confirmation may not\, in many cases\, be warranted\, but it would be a mistake to regard double-counting as the culprit. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nCharlotte Werndl is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method\, at the London School of Economics. She will be Full Professor for logic and philosophy of science at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg from September 2014 onwards. She is an associate editor of the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science and an editor of the Review of Symbolic Logic. \nRead more about Charlotte Werndl. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/charlotte-werndl-confirmation-calibration-climate-science/
LOCATION:Room 1145 – Stevenson Hall\, Stevenson Hall\, Room 1145\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ecological Philosophy
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