Past Events
› Tuesday 1st April 2014
Juan Meléndez (Carlos III University Madrid): ""De Tales a Newton": presentando la ciencia a quienes ya la conocen".
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› Tuesday 1st April 2014
Francesca Pero (University of Florence): "Varieties of Misrepresentation and Isomorphism".
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› Thursday 26th September 2013
Marc Meléndez Schofield (Departamento de Física Fundamental, UNED): "Modal Fallacies and Counterfactuals".
› Thursday 5th September 2013
Fernanda Samaniego (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM): "The Coordinating Process of Entropy: A Story Viewed from Within".
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› Tuesday 24th June 2013
Alan Hájek (Australian National University, ANU): "Against Similarity Accounts of Counterfactuals".
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› Tuesday 21st May 2013
Francesca Pero (University of Florence/Complutense University): "50 Years of Semantic View: An Assessment of its Success".
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› Wednesday 8th May 2013
Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester): "Does an Adequate Physical Theory Demand a Primitive Ontology?".
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› Saturday 17th December 2011
International Workshop Probability and Statistics in Physics. Complutense University
› 4th and 5th March 2011
Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University.
"A" building, Seminar room S217.
Confirmed speakers:
Contact: Mauricio Suárez (msuarez@filos.ucm.es).
› Monday 7th March 2011
"A" building, Seminar room S217.
Confirmed speakers:
- Janneke van Lith (Utrecht University)
- Orly Shenker (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
- Mauricio Suárez (Complutense University Madrid)
- Meir Hemmo (University of Haifa)
Contact: Mauricio Suárez (msuarez@filos.ucm.es).
Iñaki San Pedro (inaki.sanpedro@filos.ucm.es).
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Albert Solé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): "Can the World be Only Wavefunction?".
› 4th and 5th March 2011
International Workshop Causality, Inference, and Science. Complutense University
› Tuesday 19th October 2010
› Wednesday 1st April 2009
Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University.
"A" building, Seminar room A217.
Confirmed speakers:
Contact: Mauricio Suárez (msuarez@filos.ucm.es).
› Tuesday 25th January 2011
"A" building, Seminar room A217.
Confirmed speakers:
- Rani Lill Anjum (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
- Joseph Berkovitz (University of Toronto)
- Isabelle Drouet (IHPST Paris)
- Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham)
- Miklós Rédei (London School of Economics)
- Federica Russo (University of Kent)
- Iñaki San Pedro (Complutense University)
- Adán Sus (University of Wuppertal)
Contact: Mauricio Suárez (msuarez@filos.ucm.es).
Iñaki San Pedro (inaki.sanpedro@filos.ucm.es).
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David Dowe (Monash University, Australia/Universitat Politècnica de València): "MML, Statistically Consistent Invariant Bayesian Probabilistic Inference and the Elusive Model Paradox".
› Tuesday 14th December 2010
Iñaki San Pedro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "Venetian sea levels and British bread prices: a reassessment".
› Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Pedro Sánchez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "The meaning of chemical terms and chemical essentialism".
› Tuesday 19th October 2010
Fernanda Samaniego (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "Spin-echo experiments and the manipulability account of causality".
› Wednesday 1st April 2009
Xavier de Donato (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): "Explicación, idealización y modelización en una concepción inferencialista amplia".
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› Monday 9th March 2009
International Workshop Causality in Quantum Physics: Philosophers and Physicists Share their Views
Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University. "A" building, Seminar room A217.
Confirmed speakers:
Contact: Mauricio Suárez (msuarez@filos.ucm.es).
Confirmed speakers:
- Juan León (IFF-CSIC)
- Carlos Sabín (IFF-CSIC)
- Iñaki San Pedro (CPNSS-LSE)
- Joseph Berkovitz (University of Toronto)
Contact: Mauricio Suárez (msuarez@filos.ucm.es).
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Other Events
Events organised by MCISR research group within the Causal and Classical Concepts in Science research network:
› Madrid, 30th May 2008: Causation, Propensities and Causal Inference in Quantum Physics Research Project Seminar, "Robust Scientific Realism". Gerald Doppelt, University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
› Madrid, 19th November 2007: Workshop in honour of Michael Friedman, The Dynamics of Reason Reconsidered.
› Madrid, 15ht–17th November 2007: I Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA). Detailed conference information available at the EPSA07 conference webpage.
› Madrid, 30th October 2007: Causation, Propensities and Causal Inference in Quantum Physics Research Project Seminar, "On Quantum Conditionalization". Isabel Guerra, UCM.
› Madrid, 16th October 2007: Causation, Propensities and Causal Inference in Quantum Physics Research Project Seminar, "El Problema de las Trayectorias Surrealistas en Mecánica Bohmiana". Albert Solé, UCM.
› Madrid, 23rd February 2007: Causation, Propensities and Causal Inference in Quantum Physics Research Project Seminar, "On Causal Loops in Retro-Causal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics". Joseph Berkovitz, University of Maryland and University of Sydney.
› Madrid, 13th February 2007: Causation, Propensities and Causal Inference in Quantum Physics Research Project Seminar, "Cuestiones Filosóficas del la Teoría Estructural Qímica". Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez, UCM.
› Madrid, 13th December 2006: Causation, Propensities and Causal Inference in Quantum Physics Research Project Seminar, "Quantum Probabilities as Subjective Degrees of Belief?". Isabel Guerra, UCM.
› Madrid, 28th November 2006: Causation, Propensities and Causal Inference in Quantum Physics Research Project Seminar, "A Common Cause Model for EPR". Iñaki San Pedro, UCM/UPV-EHU.
› Madrid, 15th November 2006: Causation, Propensities and Causal Inference in Quantum Physics Research Project Seminar, "Contextualidad en la Mecánica Bohmiana". Albert Solé, UCM.
› Madrid, 6th and 7th October 2006: Causal and Classical Concepts in Science: II International Workshop, Probabilities, Causality and Propensities in Physics.
› Madrid, 20th September 2006: Talk, "Scientific Collective Beliefs, Acceptance, and the Ambiguous Nature Of Commitments in Science". Alban Bouvier, University of Provence (Aix) and Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS, Paris).
› Madrid, 7ht July 2006: At the presentation of the project New Experimentalism: Its Historical Roots. Lunch seminar "New Prospects for New Experimentalism". Prof. Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics & University of California at San Diego.
› Madrid, 28th April 2006: I Seminar in Philosophy and Medicine, "The Statistical Proof and the Regulation of Biomedical Research".
› Madrid, 19th April 2006: Talk, "Contextuality for Modality in Quantum Systems". Christian de Ronde, Free University Brussels.
› Madrid, 2nd–4th February 2006: International Workshop (Seminario Internacional Complutense), Scientific Representation: Idealisations, Fictions, Reasons.
Events organised by MCISR research group within the Causality, Determinism and Probability in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory research project:
› Madrid, 2nd July 2005: Talk, The Regularity Account of Relational Spacetime. Nick Huggett, University of Illinois, Chicago.
› Madrid, 21st February 2005: Talk, Quantum Theory and Causality. Recent Experiments. Brigitte Falkenburg, University of Dortmund.
› Madrid, 17th February 2005: Talk, Observation and Constructive Empiricism. Hasok Chang, University College London.
› Valladolid, 4th–6th November 2004: Causal Inference and Probability in the Physical Sciences. Symposium at the IV Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.
› Madrid, 9th September 2004: Talk, Causality: An Experimentalist Perspective"Dispositions and Propensities in Science. Julian Reiss, London School of Economics.
› Madrid, 21st May 2004: Talk, Teleology and Time-Symmetry in Microphysics". Huw Price, University of Sydney.
› Madrid, 17th December 2003: Workshop, Dispositions and Propensities in Science. Speakers: Alexander Bird (University of Bristol), Alice Drewery (University of Reading), Agustín Vicente (University of Valladolid), Nicholas Maxwell (University College London).
› Madrid, 10th October 2003: Talk, Una Falacia Interesante sobre las Supertareas Dinámicas. Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia, University of the Basque Country
› Madrid, 9th June 2003: Talk, Quantum Reference Frames and Bohr"s Reply to EPR. Michael Dickson, Indiana University.
› Madrid, 19th February 2003: Talk, The Cosmological Meaning of Time. Henrik Zinkernagel, University of Granada.