• AN EXTRAORDINARY SEMINAR BY PROFESSOR RICHARD HEALEY (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)

 

Organised by Quentin Ruyant and Mauricio Suárez

 

WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2023

 

Salón de Grados, Facultad de Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

12:30 Richard Healey (University of Arizona): "How good a friend would a quantum computer make?"

 

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• MSR International Workshop: 'The Concept of Evidence in Astrophysics'

 

Organiser: Mauricio Suárez

FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2019

Salón de Grados, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

9.30 – 10.30: Alan Heavens (Imperial College London): “Bayes in the Cosmos”

10.30 – 11.00: Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.00: Jaco de Swart (Amsterdam): “How the Universe Went Missing”

12.00 – 13.00: Siska De Baerdemaeker (Pittsburgh): “Method-Driven Experiments in Astro-Particle Physics”

13.00 – 14.30: Lunch

14.30 – 15.30: Bruno Merin (ESAC Science Data Centre, Madrid): “The Astronomy of Science Data Archives as Public Repositories of Facts”

15.30 – 16.30: Kerstin Kunze (Salamanca): “Constraining Cosmological Magnetic Fields with Data”

16.30-17.00: Coffee Break

17.00-18.00: Nora Boyd (Siena College): “Astrophysical Evidence: Observation and Intervention are Irrelevant”

18:00 – 18:45: Roundtable Discussion (Chair: Mauricio Suárez, UCM)

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• MSR Session on Philosophy of Biology: 'Size, Development and Evolution'
  
  

  

THURSDAY 20 JUNE 2019 

Seminario A-25, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense

 

11.00 - 12.15: Daniel J. Nicholson (Konrad Lorenz Institute): On Being the Right Size, Revisited

12.15 - 12.30: Coffee Break

12.30 - 13.45: Miguel Brun-Usan (University of Southampton): Unburdening Evolutionary Thought through Development

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• Lecture: 'La ciencia de los terremotos: predecir lo desconocido'
  
  

Rodrigo del Potro - University of Bristol

LUNES 10 DE JUNIO DE 2019, 12:00

Seminario B-011, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense

Organised by Mario Santos-Sousa


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• Book Presentation: 'Filosofía de la Ciencia: Historia y Práctica'

 

Presentación del libro de Mauricio Suárez: Filosofía de la Ciencia: Historia y Práctica, Tecnos, 2019.

LUNES 29 DE ABRIL DE 2019, 19:15 - Metalibrería, Calle Joaquín María López, 29.

 

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• Lecture: 'Recrear la identidad: una aproximación desde la diferencia genotipo-fenotipo'
  
  

David Ricote Hernández - UCM y Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CSIC-UPO)

MIÉRCOLES 24 DE ABRIL DE 2019, 11:00

Seminario A-25, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense


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• Lecture: 'Major Prebiotic Transitions as Stages of Protocellular Development'
  
  

Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo - IAS Research Group, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV)

MONDAY 17 DECEMBER 2018, 11:30

Seminario A-25, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Grupo de lectura en Filosofía de la Biología: Sesión 1

 

Lectura: Maynard Smith & Sathmáry, Major Transitions in Evolutionary Theory (1995) (Caps. 1-4)

LUNES 5 NOVIEMBRE 2018, 11:00

Seminario B-011, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense


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• Lecture: 'Algunos problemas de fundamentación de la mecánica estadística'

Juan MR Parrondo - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

MIÉRCOLES 31 OCTUBRE 2018, 12:00

Seminario A-217, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense


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• Workshop: The Method of Arbitrary Functions

 

FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2018

Seminar Room A-217, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University 

 

Programme:

 

 9.30 – 10.30: Jacob Rosenthal (University of Konstanz): The Method of Arbitrary Functions as an Interpretation of Probability: The Devil is in the Details

 

10.30 – 11.00: Coffee Break

 

11.00 – 12.00: Mauricio Suárez (UCM, Madrid): Explanatory Chances and the Method of Arbitrary Functions

 

12.00 – 13.00: Wolfgang Pietsch (Technical University Munich): Objective Probabilities based on Causal Symmetries

 

13.00 – 15.00: Lunch

 

15.00 – 16.00: Chloé de Canson (London School of Economics): Two Notions of Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions

 

16.00 – 17.00: Michael Strevens (New York University): The Problem of Initial Conditions

 

17.00 – 17.30: Coffee Break

 

17.30 -18.30 Roundtable Discussion

 

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Organised by Mauricio Suárez. Further info and registration: msuarez@filos.ucm.es

 

Funded and Sponsored by the Spanish DGCyT, Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness (project FFI2014-57064-P), the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy (UCM) and the Faculty of Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid.

 

• Lecture: 'Los caminos de Pòlya: una puerta a la resolución creativa de problemas'

 

Jaime Alcamí - L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, París

THURSDAY 21 JUNE 2018, 12:00

Seminar Room B-011, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Ciencia y Sentido Común'

 

Javier Vilanova - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

THURSDAY 17 MAY 2018, 13:00

Seminar Room B-011, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Essence in the Age of Evolution'

 

Christopher J. Austin (Sutton Grammar School)

MONDAY 7 MAY 2018, 11:00

Venue to be determined


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• Eighth Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences Research Workshop (PBCS8)

   

 

Invited speakers: Christopher Austin (Sutton Grammar School) and Susana Monsó (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)

3-4 MAY 2018

Seminar Room A-217, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University

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• Lecture: 'Knightian Uncertainty, Randomness, and Modality in Mathematical Economics'

 

Eric Schliesser - University of Amsterdam

THURSDAY 26 APRIL 2018, 11:30

Seminar Room A-217, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Simetrías Espacio-Temporales, Leyes de Conservación y Posibilidades Físicas'

 

Adán Sus - Universidad de Valladolid

THURSDAY 15 MARCH 2018, 13:00

Room B-013, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University

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• Lecture: 'Intuición Kantiana y Espacio-Tiempo Relativista'

 

 

 Adán Sus - Universidad de Valladolid

THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2018, 13:00

Room B-013, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Wittgenstein on Probability and Induction'

 

Constantine Sandis - University of Hertfordshire

THURSDAY 2 MARCH 2017, 13:00

Seminar Room B-011, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Reactivity Through an Interventionist Lense: Why Many Experiments in the Social Science May not be Causal'

 

María jiménez Buedo - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

THURSDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2017, 11:30

Seminar Room B-011, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Towards a Metaphysics of Biology'

 

Vanessa Triviño - Universidad de Murcia

THURSDAY 26 JANUARY 2017, 11:30

Seminar Room B-011, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Domesticating Metaphysical Indeterminacy'

 

Antony Eagle - University of Adelaide

THURSDAY 19 JANUARY 2017, 11:30

Seminar Room B-011, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Animadversions on the Semantic View'

 

Erik Curiel - Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy

FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 2016, 15:30

Conference Room A-217, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• Lecture: 'Epistemic Values in Theoretical Particle Physics: The Case of the Strong Nuclear Interaction'

 

Pablo Ruiz de Olano - University of Notre Dame

FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 2016, 18:00

Conference Room A-217, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University


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• International Workshop on The Metaphysics of Causal Probability in the Life Sciences   

 

MONDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2016

Seminar Room A-217, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University 

 

Programme:

 

9.50: Welcome and Introduction

 

Session I Chair: Mauricio Suárez (UCM)

10.00-11.00: Cristina Villegas (UCM): “On a Causal Dispositionalist View of Probability”

 

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break

 

Session II Chair: Pedro Sánchez (UCM)

11.30 – 12.30: Vanessa Triviño (Murcia): “Fitness as a Causal Dispositional Property”

12.30 – 13.30: Maria Cerezo (Murcia): “Pros and Cons of a Causal Dispositionalist Theory of Genes: Parity, Complexity and Simultaneity”

 

13.30 – 15.30: Lunch Break

 

Session III Chair: Laura Nuño de la Rosa (UCM)

15:30 – 16.30: Francesca Merlin (Paris): “No Need for a Propensity Interpretation to make Fitness Explanatory”

16.30 – 17.30: Maria José García Encinas (Granada) “Reading De Interpretatione 9 with the aid of Aristotelian Powers”

 

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Organised by Mauricio Suárez. Further info and registration: msuarez@filos.ucm.es

 

Funded and Sponsored by the Spanish DGCyT, Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness (project FFI2014-57064-P) and Complutense Research Group MCISR: http://www.ucm.es/metcausa

 

• Lecture: 'Las raíces epistemológicas de la transformación de la mecánica en el siglo XIX'

 

María de Paz - Universidad de Sevilla

MONDAY 30 MAY 2016, 11:30

Seminar Room B-011, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University

 

 

• Workshop: 'Inferentialism, Contextualism, Relativism: New Directions in Philosophy of Science'

 

MONDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2016

Seminar Room A-217, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University

 

Programme:

10.00- 11.00: Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College): Explanation or Inference: Which Comes First?

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.30: Mauricio Suárez (UCM, Madrid): The Contextual Character of Causal Evidence

12.30 – 13.30: Katherina Kinzel (University of Vienna): De-idealizing Disagreement: From Relativism to Contingency and Back

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• Lecture: 'La metafísica de las disposiciones bohmianas'

 

Albert Solé - Universitat de Barcelona

MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2016, 11:30

Seminar Room B-011, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University

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