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This series incorporates existing and new seminar series in:
| * | philosophy of physics | organised by James Ladyman |
| ** | logic and philosophy of mathematics | organised by Hannes Leitgeb |
| *** | history, philosophy, and sociology of science | organised by Alexander Bird |
| **** | history and philosophy of medicine | organised by Michael Bresalier |
All seminars take place in the Common Room at the Department starting at 5 pm, unless stated otherwise.
| Series (see key) |
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** | Wed 26th Sep | Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol) | A Probabilistic Semantics for Counterfactuals | 4 pm | Common Room |
| ** |
Wed 24th Oct |
Dr Bruno Whittle (Oxford) |
On the notion of infinite size |
4 pm | Common Room |
| **** | Wed 31st Oct | Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes) |
From 'Medical War Crimes' to 'Enlightened Consent': the Origins of the Nuremberg Code | 4 pm | Common Room |
| * | Tue 6th Nov | Hilary Greaves (Oxford) | Are anti-particles particles travelling backwards in time? | 5-7 pm | Dept. of Physics, Room 3.37 |
| * | Thu 8th Nov | Jeremy Butterfield (Trinity College, Cambridge) | Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture: "The uses of infinity: a philosopher looks at emergent phenomena in physics" | 5 pm | Powell Lecture Theatre, in Department of Physics |
| * | Wed 21st Nov | David Lavis (King’s College London) | Boltzmann, Gibbs and the Nature of Equilibrium | 5-7 pm | Dept. of Physics, Room 3.21 |
| **** | Wed 21st Nov | Jerry Kutcher (SUNY, Binghampton) | The Notorious Saenger Case: What Does it Tell Us About Post-World War II Medical Research Practices and Clinical Conduct? | 5-7 pm | Common Room |
| **** | Wed 28th Nov | John Pickstone (University of Manchester) | Ways of Knowing, Medical History and Medical Humanities | 5 pm | Common Room |
| ** | Wed 28th Nov | Ric Arthur (McMaster University) | 'x + dx = x': Leibniz's Archimedean Infinitesimals | 4-6 pm | Seminar Room, Department of Philosophy, 9 Woodland Road |
| **** | Wed 12th Dec | Emese Lafferton (University Of Edinburgh) | Dissected Frog, Reflex Machine or Simulator? Suggestive Encounters in Late Nineteenth Century Hungarian Psychiatry | 5 pm | Common Room |
| **** | Wed 9th Jan 2008 | Lesel Dawson (English, University of Bristol) | 'My Love is as a Fever': Four Etiologies of Lovesickness in Early Modern Medicine and Literature | 4 pm | Common Room |
| ** | Wed 16th Jan |
Dan Isaacson (Oxford) |
Mathematical Structures and the Reality of Mathematics | 5 pm | Common Room |
| **** | Wed 23th Jan | Virginia Berridge (LSTHM) | Systematic gradualism or coercive permissiveness? Post war dilemmas for public health in Britain | 4 pm | Common Room |
| * | Wed 30th Jan | Dr David Wallace (Oxford) | TBA | 5 pm | Room 3.21 Physics Department |
| **** | Wed 6th Feb | John Worrall (LSE) | Do we "need some large, simple randomized controlled trials" in medicine? | 4 pm | Common Room |
| ** | Wed 13th Feb | Dr Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford) | TBA | 5 pm | Common Room |
| **** | Wed 20th Feb | Kenton Kroker (York) | Insomnia as a biomedical problem | 4 pm | Common Room |
| ** | Wed 27th Feb | Dr Fabio Paglieri (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Rome) | Parsimonious enthymemes: How scant resources affect argument reconstruction (joint work with John Woods) | 5 pm | Common Room |
| **** | Wed 5th Mar | Helen Lambert (Social Medicine) | Notions of evidence in medicine and beyond: Anthropological reflections | 4 pm | Common Room |
| *** | Wed 12th Mar | Dr Jon Williamson (Kent) | Objective Bayesian Epistemology | 5 pm | Common Room |
| * | Wed 7th May | Wayne Myrvold (University of Western Ontario)/ | TBA | 5pm | Room 3.21 Physics Department |
| * | Wed 14th May | Professor Frank Arntzenius (Oxford) | TBA | 5 pm | Room 3.21 Physics Department |
| * | Wed 28th May | Marcus Rossberg (St Andrews) | TBA | 5 pm | Common Room |
| ** | Wed 4th June | Martin Fischer (Munich) | TBA | 5 pm | Common Room |
| * | Wed 11th June | Charlotte Werndl (Cambridge) | What is the unpredictability unique to chaos? | 5pm | Common Room |
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