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SUMMARY:Peter Godfrey-Smith: Memory as Communication
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nMemory 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 different applications\, can indeed play this role. Application of these ideas to memory can inform debates about the ‘reconstructive’ nature of memory\, the function of episodic memory\, and the relations between memory in genetic\, epigenetic\, and neural systems.     \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nPeter Godfrey-Smith is currently a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center\, CUNY (City University of New York). \nHe grew up in Sydney\, Australia. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Sydney\, and he has a PhD in philosophy from UC San Diego. He taught at Stanford University between 1991 and 2003\, and then combined a half-time post at the Australian National University and a visiting position at Harvard for a few years. He moved to Harvard full-time and was Professor there from 2006 to 2011\, before coming to the CUNY Graduate Center. \nHis main research interests are in the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind. He also works on pragmatism (especially John Dewey)\, general philosophy of science\, and some parts of metaphysics and epistemology. He has written four books\, Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge\, 1996)\, Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Chicago\, 2003)\,  Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (Oxford\, 2009)\, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award\, and Philosophy of Biology\, just released by Princeton. \nRead more about Peter Godfrey-Smith. \nEVENT VIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/peter-godfrey-smith-memory-communication/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience
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SUMMARY:Roman Frigg: Three-Part Crash Course on the Science of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThis 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 lecture explains the earth’s energy balance and introduces basic concepts such as the greenhouse effect\, radiative forcing\, time lags\, feedback loops\, climate sensitivity and climate variability. The second lecture introduces climate models\, ensemble methods\, and discusses what kinds of uncertainties attach to them. The third lecture discusses recent projects aiming to deliver high-resolution climate forecasts out to the end of the century and raises questions about the limits of predictability. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nRoman Frigg is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method\, Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)\, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a permanent visiting professor in the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He held visiting appointments in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of the University of Western Ontario\, the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities of the University of Utrecht\, the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science of the University of Sydney\, and the Department of Logic\, History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Barcelona. He is associate editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science\, member of the steering committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association\, and serves on a number of editorial and advisory boards. \nHe holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of London and masters degrees both in theoretical physics and philosophy from the University of Basel\, Switzerland. His research interests lie in general philosophy of science and philosophy of physics\, and he has published papers on climate change\, quantum mechanics\, statistical mechanics\, randomness\, chaos\, complexity\, probability\, scientific realism\, computer simulations\, modelling\, scientific representation\, reductionism\, confirmation\, and the relation between art and science. His current work focuses on predictability and climate change\, the foundation of statistical mechanics\, and the nature of scientific models and theories. \nRead more about Roman Frigg.
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/roman-frigg-three-part-crash-course-science-climate-change/
LOCATION:Room 1145 – Stevenson Hall\, Stevenson Hall\, Room 1145\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ecological Philosophy
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SUMMARY:Karim Thébault: Confirmation Via Analogue Simulation: What Dumb Holes Could Tell Us About Gravity
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nWe 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 in detail\, we defend the claim that the phenomena of gravitational Hawking radiation could be confirmed in the case that its counterpart is detected within experiments conducted on diverse realisations of the analogue model. A prospectus is given for further potential cases of analogue simulation in contemporary science.     \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nKarim Thébault is currently an assistant professor at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU). His research is  principally within the philosophy of physics with a particular emphasis on time and symmetry in classical and quantum theories of gravity. He is also interested in structural realism\, probability in quantum mechanics\, and the relationship between analytical mechanics and quantum theory. \nHe did his PhD at Centre for Time\, University of Sydney\, under the supervision of Huw Price and Dean Rickles. He also have an MSc in theoretical physics from Imperial College London\, and a joint honours BA in philosophy and physics from the University of Oxford. \nRead more about Karim Thébault.
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/karim-thebault-confirmation-via-analogue-simulation-dumb-holes-tell-us-gravity/
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CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Physics
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