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The Society organises a programme of monthly meetings, an annual summer conference, and provides financial support to an irregular programme of other conferences.

Details of the Society's policy on conference funding are available here.

Annual Conference 2010


UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

THURSDAY 8TH - FRIDAY 9TH JULY 2010

The programme consists of the following plenary sessions plus 70 contributed papers (in parallel sessions)

  • James Woodward
    Causation in biology: Stability, specificity and the choice of levels of explanation
  • Marcel Weber
    Is information talk in biology about causal specificity?
  • John Norton
    Logics of Induction
  • Stephan Hartmann
    Naturalized Bayesianism
  • Presidential Address: John Worrall
    Explanation and cause: a not so fond farewell

Registration is now open. Details can be found here
http://ucdjointsession2010.com/bsps.html. A discounted rate for early registration is available until 1 June.

PROGRAMME OF LONDON MEETINGS 2009-10


Unless otherwise indicated, meetings are held at 5.15pm in room T206, in the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, Lakatos Building, Portugal Street, London WC2 and tea and biscuits are served at 5.00pm in Room T16.

  • 2 November Roman Frigg (LSE) - Determinism and Chance
  • 30 November Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol) - An Objective Justification of Bayesianism
  • 1 February Juha Saatsi (Leeds) - Scientific Realism and Partial Truth
  • 1 March Hasok Chang (UCL) - A Case for Scientific Pluralism
  • 7 June
    4.00pm Annual General Meeting
    From 4.30pm Tea and biscuits
    5.15pm: Rom Harré (Georgetown & LSE) - Psychology as a Hybrid Science - from neuro-psychology to psycho-neurology

Past Lectures

Recordings of past lectures are available here to download as MP3 files.

Alice Drewery (Reading) - Ceteris paribus - from Mill to a modern muddle?
Lecture Discussion

Steven French (Leeds) - The Limits of Structuralism
Lecture Discussion

Michela Massimi (UCL) - From Galileo to Kant: a new conception of phenomena
Lecture

David Wallace (Oxford) - Many worlds? – the case for the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics
Lecture

John O'Neill (Manchester) - Science, pluralism and economics: the debate between Hayek and Neurath
Lecture

Matteo Mameli (King's College, London) - Innateness in the cognitive sciences: the clutter hypothesis and the cluster hypothesis
Lecture

Hilary Greaves (Oxford) - On the empirical significance of local symmetries
Lecture Slides

Jon Williamson (Kent)- Mechanistic theories of causality
Lecture

CONFERENCES SUPPORTED BY THE BSPS

Confirmation, Induction and Science, 8-10 March 2007, London School of Economics Foundations of Physics, 29-31 March 2007, University of Leeds Causation and the Law, 28 April 2007, University of Birmingham Kant and Philosophy of Science Today, 2-3 July 2007, University College London Progic 07, 5-7 Sept 2007, University of Kent Mind and Society conference to be held at the University of Manchester. Information in Physics and Biology, Leeds, 14th September 2007 Nature and its Classificiation, 12-14th October 2007 Powers, Causation and Laws, Durham, 17 Dec 2007 1st Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, 19-20 January 2008, University of Cambridge Science and Pseudo-science, Birmingham, 15th March 2008 Modelling Matter, Durham, March 2008 Explanation, reduction and models of psychopathology. 17 June 2008. Bristol University Styles and Ways of Knowing, UCL, 20th June 2008 Is science inconsistent? 21st June 2008. Leeds Philosophy of Probability. 27-28th June 2008. LSE Powers: Their Grounding and their Realization, 7th-9th July 2008 Computation and cognitive science, 7-8th July 2008, King's College Causality Study Fortnight, Kent, 8-19th Sept 2008 Unreasonable Effectiveness? Historical origins and philosophical problems for applied mathematics. 16-17 December 2008, All Souls College, Oxford The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, December 18-20 2008, University of Vienna Cambridge Graduate Conference for the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, 17-18th January 2009 Explanation, Indispensability of Mathematics and Scientific Realism, 23 Jan 2009, Leeds Workshop on Models and Fiction, 11-12 March 2009, LSE Minds, Brains and Beyond: An International Conference in Memory of Susan Hurley, 19-21 March 2009, Bristol Two Streams in the Philosophy of Mathematics, 1-3 July 2009, University of Hertfordshire Mechanisms and Causality in the Sciences, Sept 2009, University of Kent Metaphysics of Science. Nottingham, 12-14 Sept 2009 Philosophy of Probability. LSE. June 2009 Philosophy of Natural Science from Newton to Kant. UCL. Spring 2010 Mathematical and Geometrical Explanation in Physics, Bristol 11-12 Dec 2009 Approaches to 'theory of mind': Perspectives from Philosophy and Psychology, Lancaster 30 March 2010

Argument Theory, Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Manchester Metropolitan University 12-13 April 2010

Progress in Medicine, Bristol 13-15 April 2010

Workshop on Formal Epistemology, Stirling 14-15 May 2010.

What is HPS for? Fifth Joint Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, Exeter June 2010.

Graduate Workshop: Philosophy and Pain, Birmingham 4 June 2010.

16th U.K. and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, Universityof Aberdeen, 5 - 7 July 2010

MIND, SCIENCE AND EVERYTHING!, Glasgow, June 2010

Graduate Conference Philosophy of Probability III, LSE, June 2010

16th U.K. and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, Universityof Aberdeen, 5 - 7 July 2010

"What does it mean to do the history,philosophy and sociology of
mathematics in the 21st-century?", UCL, July 2010