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Joyce Havstad: Methodological Choice, Value-Criteria, and Fruitfulness
Joyce Havstad (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah; Fellow at the University of Hannover) visits Durham and gives a lecture on methodological choice in science.
08 May 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside ER278
- Lecture
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
E.J. Lowe Lecture 2025: Dr Jessica Leech (King's College, London)
The Philosophy Department's annual E.J. Lowe Lecture 'A more-or-less recent history of essence' with Dr Jessica Leech (King's College, London).
08 May 2025
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Lecture hall TLC033, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, DH1 3LS or via Teams (hybrid event)
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
*CANCELLED* How to Make Better Policy Predictions, with Child Protection Policy as a Case Study
*Unfortunately we are postponing this seminar.* Professor Nancy Cartwright (Durham University), Professor Eileen Munro (London School of Economics) and John Pemberton give a seminar based on their upcoming book.
22 May 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside ER278
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In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming
Professor Nancy Cartwright first presented her lecture “In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming” as an Inaugural Mary Hesse Lecture in Cambridge on 24 Oct 2024.
29 May 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside ER278
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- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
The (women) In Parenthesis Online Work in Progress Seminar Series 2024-5
Next Talk in the The (women) In Parenthesis Online Work in Progress Seminar Series 2024-5 is Chiara Pellegrini, ‘Discussing Relationality Starting From G.E.M. Anscombe.' on 3rd June 2025 between 3pm and 4.30pm
03 June 2025
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
On Zoom - further information available on Woman in Parenthesis Website- www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Intellectual Humility in Early Modern Science and Philosophy
This workshop is a follow-up to work done during 2021-23 on John Templeton Foundation grant, ‘The Successes and Failures of Science Through the Lens of Intellectual Humility: Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science’. The speakers of the day include Sarah Hutton (York), and Elisabeth Thorson, Tom Rossetter and Robin Hendry (Durham).
26 June 2025
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Department of Philosophy PO005
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Workshop
Northern Metaphysics Network Conference
The aim of this network is to create new research links across the North of England, through conferences, workshops and other events.
08 September 2025
Room PO005, 48 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HN.
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Philosophy
Perspectives on molecular functionality – Kick-off event for project FunMo
To kick off her Leverhulme postdoctoral fellowship project “Functions at the molecular scale” (FunMo Project) at the Durham Philosophy department, Francesca Bellazzi is organising a CHESS workshop called FunMo Kick-off. The event is supported by BSPS.
02 October 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Philosophy Department, Durham
- Research event
- Department of Philosophy
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings - Michaelmas Term 2025
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
09 October 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
PO004, 48 Old Elvet
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Philosophy
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings - Michaelmas Term 2025
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
16 October 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
PO004, 48 Old Elvet
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Philosophy