Dear All,
Registration is now open for the "Get real! Realism as a goal for the sciences and HPS" conference, taking place 19-20 September 2017 at the University of Leeds.
The conference schedule is below. For the full programme (including abstracts) and the registration form, please go to the conference website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/40006/centre_for_history_and_philosophy_of_science/3060/get_real
Attendance is free-of-charge, but registration will be necessary (to help us with realism about numbers).
We do hope you can join us!
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"Get real!: Realism as a goal for the sciences and for HPS"
A conference celebrating 60 years of History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds
19-20 September 2017
University of Leeds
Tuesday 19 September
13:45-14:00 Welcome and introduction
14:00-15:00 Keynote address by Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge), "A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in World War One"
15:05-15:45 Emily Herring (University of Leeds), "Realism Evolving: Henri Bergson’s Biological Theory of Knowledge"
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-16:55 Corey Dethier (University of Notre Dame), "Questions of Reality Gone Wrong: The Philosophical Importance of Force Composition"
17:00-17:40 John Christie (University of Oxford), "On Getting Really Pissed Off"
18:30-19:30 HPS in 20 Objects public lecture on a Victorian printing press by Jonathan Topham (University of Leeds)
Wednesday 20 September
9:30-10:10 Peter Vickers (University of Durham), "When Physicists Get it Wrong: What the Philosopher Can Teach the Physicist about Reality"
10:15-10:55 Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam (California State University), "Values and Evidence in Science and Philosophy – From Philosophy of Science-in-Practice to Philosophy-of-Science in Practice"
10:55-11:25 Coffee break
11:25-12:25 Keynote address by Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge), "Beyond Truth-as-Correspondence: Realism for Realistic People"
12:25-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:55 Ashton Green (University of Notre Dame), "Real Causes, Real Forces? Émilie Du Châtelet’s Philosophy of Science"
14:00-14:40 Andrew Hopkins (UCL), "If an Asteroid Falls in the Cretaceous... Should Geologists be Realists about the Past?"
14:45-15:25 Angelo Cei (University of Leeds), "Scientific Realism, Criteria of Selectivity and the History of Science"
15:25-15:55 Coffee break
15:55-16:35 Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge), "How Atoms Became Real"
16:40-17:20 Laura Bujalance (University of Navarra), "Epistemological Status of the Modes of Physical Action. Does Science Get It Right? Mary Hesse's FORCES AND FIELDS Revisited"
17:30-18:30 Launch of Anjan Chakravartty’s (University of Notre Dame) new book SCIENTIFIC ONTOLOGY (Oxford University Press)
Apart from the HPS in 20 Objects lecture and the book launch, all talks and keynotes will take place at 20 Lyddon Terrace, Seminar Room 1 (Room 1.06).
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Gregory Radick
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Tel: (UK) 0113 343 3269
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Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20048/philosophy/person/861/gregory_radick
President-Elect, International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology
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