Scientific Realism Revisited -Revisited...

[Sophia Efstathiou]

Dear all,
Please find below some updates to this workshop's programme, most notably, the participation of Professor Sherrilyn Roush of UC Berkeley.

Part of AHRC-funded
project Contingency and Dissent in
Science

Scientific Realism
Revisited

April 28th - April 29th
2009

London School of Economics and Political Science

Tuesday
April 28th

Sessions are in Room T206, Lakatos Building, LSE

14.00 – 15.30 John Worrall (Philosophy, LSE)

'Realisms for sale: entity, experimental, structural (epistemic and
ontic), partial, 'full-on' .... But will the real realism stand up please? '

15.30 – 16.00
Coffee

16.00 – 17.30
Mauricio Suarez (Philosophy, Complutense University)

'Fictions, inference, and realism '

17.30 – 18.00 Reception

19.00 Speakers’ Dinner

Wednesday
April 29th

Sessions are in Room NABLG09, New Academic Building,
LSE

8.30 – 9.00
Coffee

9.00 – 10.30 Nancy Cartwright (Philosophy, LSE
and UC San Diego)

'Phenomenological realism: how bold should we be?'

10.30 – 12.00 Sherrilyn
Roush (Philosophy, UC Berkeley)

‘Optimism about the Pessimistic Induction’

12.00 –13.00 Speakers’ Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 Steven
French (Philosophy, Leeds)

' One Trope or Two: How much metaphysics should the realist
take with
 her tea? '

14:30-15:00 Coffee

15.00 – 16.30
Bradley Monton (Philosophy, University
of Colorado at Boulder)

‘What constructive 
empiricism gets wrong, and
what it might get right’

16.30 – 17.30 Peter Clark (Philosophy, St Andrews)

Comments

The workshop is free and open to the public.

To register contact
s.efst...@lse.ac.uk with your
name and affiliation and ‘scientific realism revisited’ in the subject line.

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