PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
SCIENCE STRAND 1st Term 2011
Quantum Theory and the Nature of Reality (No attachments)
30/03/11 Graham
SCIENCE STRAND (CONTINUED) – 2nd Term 2011
Scientific Thought in the Age of the Enlightenment
27/04/11 Adrian
Conservation Principles and Symmetry in Physics
04/05/11 Derek
Do Scientific Theories tell it like it is?
11/05/11 Do Scientific Theories tell it like it is? Richard Baron (Guest Speaker)
2nd Term 2012
30/05/12 Kaska
Sociobiology – Science or Sociology. Adrian
27/06/12 Adrian
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE – 1st Term 2015
(Chapter references are to ‘Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction’ by Samir Okasha, OUP)
Time: Philosophically, Scientifically and Fictionally
07/01/15 Stephen
What is Science? Scientific Reasoning (Chapters 1 & 2)
14/01/15 Derek
Explanation in Science (Chapter 3)
21/01/15 Alistair
Philosophy and Science of ‘What, how and why we hear’
28/01/15 John Naylor (Guest Speaker)
Realism and Anti-Realism (Chapter 4)
04/02/15 Peter
Uncanny Tales – from Hauntology to the Uncanny Valley (Freud, Heidegger, M.R. James, Lara Croft) 11/02/15 David
Reflections: Philosophy of Science
25/02/15 Paul
2ND TERM 2015
Do numbers exist? Discovery versus invention in mathematics
24/06/15 Gary Retallick (Guest Speaker)
“Gödel and Incompleteness”
11/03/15 Richard Baron (Guest Speaker)
3RD TERM 2015
The Multiverse: philosophy, physics or bunkum?
18/11/15 Graham
MISCELLANEOUS STRANDS – 1st Term 2019
Myths, Mysteries and Miracles: a journey through Pseudo Science
16/01/19 Graham
Frequentism and Bayesian Probability
6/03/19 Derek
The Quantum Measurement Problem
13/03/19 Anton
Copied from: PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, MIND & REALITY STRAND – 3RD Term 2019
Odd socks and the Nature of Reality
04/12/19 Graham
1st Term 2020
The physics of logic
26/02/20 Anton
Moved from 2nd Term 2020
20200420 Graham – Philosophy of Mathematics
29/4/20 Graham
1st term 2026
SCIENCE
(talks still to come)
Meritocracy
7/1/25 Simon
The Philosophy of Science: an Overview
14/1/26 Z
Hume, Kant and the possibility of a Science
29/01/26 Peter K
Archaeology and Science?
04/02/26 Guest Speaker: Ken Dark
Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem
11/02/26 Paul