[PhilPhys] LSE Philosophy Newsletter | Michaelmas Term 2016

[Philosophy]

LSE Philosophy

Michaelmas Term 2016

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Visitors

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Visiting LSE Philosophy this term are Nicholas Baigent, Eric Brandstedt, Jeremy Clarke, Ulf Dahlsten, Colin Elliot, Goreti Faria, Alexander Krauss, Heinrich Nax, Cailin O'Connor, Hamid Seyedsayamdost, Mike Stuart and James Weatherall.





Speakers

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- Elay Shech, Ferez Azhar and Peter Sozou are among the speakers at the Sigma Club<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/category/sigma-club/list/> lecture series on philosophy of physics.

- Miklós Rédei and Justin Sytsma will give this term's Popper Seminars<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/category/popper-seminar/list/>.

- Bernard Salow, Eric Olson, Johanna Thoma and Jossi Berkovitz will be speaking at the Choice Group<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/category/choice-group/list/> lecture series on decision theory and social choice.

- Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Christian List, Sarah Sawyer and Julian Baggini will be appearing at the Forum<http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/forthcomingevents/>.





Conferences

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[cid:image002.jpg at 01D22482.3C187570]<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/workshop-on-scientific-imagination-and-epistemic-representations/>28 October - Workshop on Scientific Imagination and Epistemic Representations<http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/workshop-on-scientific-imagination-and-epistemic-representations/>



Many philosophers of science dismiss imagination as ill-suited for scientific reasoning. The notion of imagination that they assume often coincides with that of irrational or unconstrained thought that enables us to escape reality. This idea disregards the fact that imagination seems also to provide knowledge of reality.



For example, imagination seems to play a role in philosophical and scientific thought experiments, scientific modelling, counterfactual reasoning, problem solving, practical deliberations about contingent facts, and more. But how can the same mental ability enable us to escape reality and also learn about it?



On 28 October, four leading experts on imagination, Prof Ruth Byrne, Prof Catharine Abell, Dr Fiora Salis and Prof Timothy Williamson will address the issue of scientific imagination and epistemic representations from the perspectives of philosophy of science, epistemology, cognitive science and aesthetics.



This workshop is co-sponsored by the CPNSS<http://www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/home.aspx>, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science<http://www.thebsps.org/>  and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme<https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/> under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 654034.







Interested in visiting us?

Find out more about our visitors programme<http://www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/visitorsprogramme/VisitorsProgramme.aspx>



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