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Roman Frigg: Three-Part Crash Course on the Science of Climate Change
Room 1145 - Stevenson Hall Stevenson Hall, Room 1145, LondonABSTRACT 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 [...]
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 [...]
Causal Powers in Science: Blending Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
Dr. David S.H. Chu International Student Centre International and Graduate Affairs Building, Western University, London2014 ROTMAN SUMMER INSTITUTE The 2014 Institute brings together philosophers of science and metaphysicians with historians of philosophy to discuss conceptual and historical issues concerning the nature and role of causal powers in science and the prospects of the debate between the neo-Aristotelian and neo-Humean approaches to causation and laws of nature. This is a [...]