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Dear Carolina, Sure – please see this page here to download these (and other) slides from the seminars: http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Coursesseminars/Previousseminarsandevents/tabid/3317/Default.aspx Best wishes, James. From: Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adler Carolina Sent: 14 February 2017 09:11 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: UCL Seminar What’s wrong with ‘What Works for Whom, Where’? Dear colleagues, Unfortunately I missed this very interesting and relevant seminar held last November at UCL, and I wondered whether anybody in this mailing list would have a copy of the presentation or slides (or a contact to solicit these slides?). I tried reaching Prof Cartwright directly, but to date I've had no response. Much appreciated. Carolina. -- ETH Zurich Dr. Carolina E. Adler Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED<http://www.ied.ethz.ch/>) & Transdisciplinarity Lab (USYS TdLab<http://www.tdlab.usys.ethz.ch/>) Coordinator and Lecturer CCES Winter School<http://www.cces.ethz.ch/winterschool> "Science Meets Practice" CHN H73.1 | Universitätstrasse 22 | 8092 Zurich | SWITZERLAND P: +41 44 632 73 74 | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | www.envphil.ethz.ch<http://www.envphil.ethz.ch> New publications: Alfthan, B., Semernya, L., Ramola, A., Adler, C., Peñaranda, L.F., Andresen, M., Rucevska, I., Jurek, M., Schoolmeester, T., Baker, E., Hauer, W. & Memon, M., (2016). Waste Management Outlook for Mountain Regions – Sources and Solutions. UNEP, GRID-Arendal and ISWA. Nairobi, Arendal and Vienna. http://www.grida.no/publications/default/6826.aspx ________________________________ From: Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Penny Haora [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 21 November 2016 15:06 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: UCL Seminar What’s wrong with ‘What Works for Whom, Where’? Dear Colleagues, Some may be interested in this seminar. P What’s wrong with ‘What Works for Whom, Where’? Speaker: Nancy Cartwright, University of Durham and University of California, San Diego Venue: UCL Institute of Education, Room G16, 9-11 Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0ED Date: Wednesday 22 November Time: 12.30 – 13.30 As we know, Random Controlled Trials, if well blinded and monitored, can be taken to give an unbiased estimate of the mean treatment effect in the population enrolled in the study. The first thing to note is that without additional assumptions, the estimate need not be very precise. This means that the result from one run of the experiment may give results far from the true mean on that population. The second thing is to ask: If this particular population with these specific individuals in it is not the one of interest, what use can be made of the estimate of its mean treatment effect? It is now widely acknowledged that few social interventions work the same way. Hence the move to ‘What works for whom, where?’. This conceals a heavy metaphysical assumption well beyond the empirical evidence: that the intervention has what philosophers call a ‘goal-directed power’ towards the outcome. This talk will argue that it is unlikely that many of interventions we consider in social policy have any such ‘goal-directed power’. When they work they generally do so because local arrangements call a number of different causal principles into play together that would not be at work together in other arrangements. Biography Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She is past President of the Philosophy of Science Association and was President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) in 2008. Her research interests include philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics), causal inference, causal powers, scientific emergence and objectivity and evidence, especially for evidence-based policy. Attendance open to all free of charge. Part of the ongoing London Systematic Reviews and Research Use Seminars<http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=3471> series at the UCL Institute of Education http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Twitter @EPPICentre<https://twitter.com/EPPICentre> @IOE_SSRU<https://twitter.com/IOE_SSRU> ________________________________ This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com ________________________________