Philosophy of Science |

We will be reading recent papers in Philosophy of Science. Further information on the Méthodos website.

Schedule

During the first term, sessions will be held every two Thursdays from 16:00 to 18:00 at the Logic and Philosophy of Science seminar room (room 714).
26/10/2017: Woodward, James (2000) “Explanation and invariance in the special sciences”. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (2):197-254. [pp.197-214]
09/11/2017: Woodward, James (2000) “Explanation and invariance in the special sciences”. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (2): 197-254. [pp. 214-254]
23/11/2017: Woodward, J. (2000). Explanation and invariance in the special sciences. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: 51, [197-254]
30/11/2017: Woodward, J. (2002). What Is a Mechanism? A Counterfactual Account. Philosophy of Science, 69, S366-S377.
14/12/2017: Saatsi, J. & Pexton, M. (2013). Reassessing Woodward’s Account of Explanation: Regularities, Counterfactuals, and Noncausal Explanations. Philosophy of Science, 80, 613-624

During the second term, sessions will take place every two Mondays from 10:30-12 at the Logic and Philosophy of Science seminar room (room 714). Unless stated otherwise, all readings are extracted from Peterson, M. (2008). An introduction to Decision Theory

19/02/2018: Pacuit, E. (2017). “Voting Methods”. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
05/03/2018: Chapters 1-2
26/03/2018: Chapter 3
16/04/2018: Chapters 4
23/04/2018: Chapter 5
04/05/2018: Chapter 6 (09:30-11am)
07/05/2018: Chapter 7 (10:30-12am)
14/05/2018: Chapter 8
21/05/2018: Chapter 9
30/05/2018: Chapter 10 (12am-1:30pm)
06/06/2018: Chapter 11 (12am-2pm)
13/06/2018: Chapter 12 (12am-2pm)
21/06/2018: Chapter 12 (12am-2pm)
28/06/2018: Chapter 13 (12am-2pm)
06/07/2018: Chapter 14 (10:30am-12:30am)

Coordinators
Valeriano Iranzo (UV) and Saúl Pérez (UV)

Contact
Saúl Pérez-González (saul.perez@uv.es)

Organization: Methodos

Funding: Leyes, explicación y realismo en ciencias físicas y biomédicas (FFI2016-76799-P) and Department of Philosophy