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SUMMARY:Ioannis Votsis: Debunking the Instrument Conspiracy
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nObservations made through instruments that cannot also be made with our unaided sensory organs lack epistemic credibility\, claim the constructive empiricists. One well-known challenge to this view draws attention to the fact that distinct types of instruments have been known to yield the same or at least highly similar observational outputs. The implication\, of course\, is that the convergence of output is evidence of the ability of those instruments to detect real features of the world. To meet this challenge\, the constructive empiricist attempts to argue that the convergence is an artefact of the practice of calibration. In this talk\, I argue that this is desperate\, conspiratorial\, attempt to rule out the veridicality of the output of instruments. My inquiry is framed around a broader discussion of what makes unaided sensory organs epistemically credible. Surprisingly\, constructive empiricists say nothing on this matter. Against this background\, I put forth a proposal for what lends unaided sensory organs epistemic credibility and\, unsurprisingly\, argue that the same credibility is extended to several types of instruments. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nIoannis Votsis a Senior Lecturer at the New College of the Humanities in London and the Assistant Director of the Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science. His main area of expertise is the philosophy of science but he also has active research interests in metaphysics\, philosophy of language\, philosophy of logic\, philosophy of artificial intelligence and meta-philosophy. \nRead more about Ioannis Votsis.
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/ioannis-votsis-debunking-instrument-conspiracy/
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SUMMARY:Peter Achinstein: Who Needs Proof? James Clerk Maxwell on Scientific Method
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIsaac Newton famously claimed that hypotheses\, i.e.\, unproved propositions\, have no place in “experimental philosophy.”  Maxwell disagreed and proposed three methods that can legitmately be employed when a scientist lacks proof for a theory\, or even a theory to be proved.  What are these methods\, and are they legitimate? \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n \nPeter Achinstein specializes in philosophy of science and has interests in the history of science as well. In addition to numerous articles and reviews in these fields\, he is the author of Concepts of Science (1968)\, Law and Explanation (1971)\, The Nature of Explanation (1983)\, and Particles and Waves (1991). The latter\, which received the Lakatos Award\, is a study of methodological problems arising from three episodes in 19th-century physics: the wave-particle debate about light\, the development of the kinetic-molecular theory\, and the discovery of the electron. Recent publications include The Book of Evidence (2001)\, which develops a theory of scientific evidence and applies it to cases in the history of science\, Science Rules: A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods (2004)\, Scientific Evidence (2005)\, and Evidence\, Explanation\, and Realism (2010)\, which is a collection of his essays. In 2011\, he was honored by a festschrift\, Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein.  This contains 20 papers on his work by former students and other important writers.  His latest work\, Evidence and Method\, which discusses the scientific methods of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell\, will be published in 2013.  He has held Guggenheim\, NEH\, and NSF fellowships\, and has served as a visiting professor at MIT\, Stanford\, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a founder and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for History and Philosophy of Science. \nRead more about Peter Achinstein. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/peter-achinstein-needs-proof-james-clerk-maxwell-scientific-method/
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SUMMARY:Peter Achinstein: What is a Theory of Everything and Why Should We Want One?
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nScientists and philosophers who seek\, or advocate seeking\, a “theory of everything” (e.g.\, string theory\, Thomas Nagel’s panpsychic theory\, David Chalmers’ “construction of the world”) want to produce a grand\, unifying theory that can explain everything on the basis of fundamental laws and constituents of the universe. Advocates of this idea offer very general empirical\, or a priori\, or methodological reasons for doing so. These reasons are worth examining and criticizing. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n \nPeter Achinstein specializes in philosophy of science and has interests in the history of science as well. In addition to numerous articles and reviews in these fields\, he is the author of Concepts of Science (1968)\, Law and Explanation (1971)\, The Nature of Explanation (1983)\, and Particles and Waves (1991). The latter\, which received the Lakatos Award\, is a study of methodological problems arising from three episodes in 19th-century physics: the wave-particle debate about light\, the development of the kinetic-molecular theory\, and the discovery of the electron. Recent publications include The Book of Evidence (2001)\, which develops a theory of scientific evidence and applies it to cases in the history of science\, Science Rules: A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods (2004)\, Scientific Evidence (2005)\, and Evidence\, Explanation\, and Realism (2010)\, which is a collection of his essays. In 2011\, he was honored by a festschrift\, Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein. This contains 20 papers on his work by former students and other important writers. His latest work\, Evidence and Method\, which discusses the scientific methods of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell\, will be published in 2013. He has held Guggenheim\, NEH\, and NSF fellowships\, and has served as a visiting professor at MIT\, Stanford\, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a founder and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for History and Philosophy of Science. \nRead more about Peter Achinstein. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/peter-achinstein-theory-everything-want-one/
LOCATION:Room 1145 – Stevenson Hall\, Stevenson Hall\, Room 1145\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
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