News and Events
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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.
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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
Program
Contact: pbcs8workshop@gmail.com
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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
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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
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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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