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Peter Godfrey-Smith: Memory as Communication
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Memory as Communication
ABSTRACT Memory can be seen as communication between stages – communication between an earlier and a later self. This idea only becomes more than a loose analogy, though, if there is a theory of communication that can add something substantial to our understanding of memory. I’ll argue that recent models of communication, developed for quite […]
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Roman Frigg: Three-Part Crash Course on the Science of Climate Change
ABSTRACT This three-part lecture series focuses on the natural science aspects of climate change, as well as the methodological and philosophical questions that arise in connection with them. Everybody wishing to understand the basic physics behind climate change and the use of climate models is welcome to attend; no prior knowledge is presupposed. The first […]
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Karim Thébault: Confirmation Via Analogue Simulation: What Dumb Holes Could Tell Us About Gravity
Karim Thébault: Confirmation Via Analogue Simulation: What Dumb Holes Could Tell Us About Gravity
ABSTRACT We argue for the existence of analogue simulation as a novel form of scientific inference with the potential to be confirmatory. This notion is distinct from the modes of analogical reasoning detailed in the literature, and draws inspiration from fluid dynamical ‘dumb hole’ analogues to gravitational black holes. For that case, which is considered […]