From Physics to Metaphysics and Back Again
University of Cambridge Cambridge, United KingdomA conference in honour of Jeremy Butterfield.
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Peter Vickers (Durham), ‘Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science’
LAK 2.06, The Lakatos Building London School of Economics, London, United KingdomThe 4th Reasoning Club Meeting (Manchester)
University of Manchester Manchester, United KingdomThe 10th UK Integrated HPS Conference (Durham)
Durham University Stockton Road, Durham, United KingdomNicholas Shea (KCL), Functions for Representation
LAK 2.06, The Lakatos Building London School of Economics, London, United KingdomAbstract: In the cognitive sciences, representations play a central role in explaining behaviour. Characteristically, representing correctly explains successful behaviour and misrepresentation explains failure. The standards of success and failure at play here are often tacit. What are they based on? Teleosemantics offers one answer: success is a matter of performing an evolutionary function. This paper […]