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How responsive to evidence should counterfactual histories be – and to what kinds of evidence? A joint workshop sponsored collaboratively by CHESS and History and Philosophy of Science group from University of Leeds. The speakers include Greg Radick (University of Leeds), Sarah Wieten (Philosophy at Durham University), and Joe Martin and Richard Huzzey (History at Durham University).
07 February 2025
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Elvet Riverside ER228
This workshop will explore the extent to which qualitative research methods can enhance philosophical works and vice versa, with a particular focus on applied normative philosophy. We aim to contribute to growing efforts to bridge the gap between abstract normative theorising and empirically-informed research that engages with real people in the real world.
27 March 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
the Institute of Advanced Studies - Cousin‘s hall The participation in the workshop is limited to due to restrictions of the space.
CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).
08 May 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Teams
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.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside ER278
15 May 2025
Unfortunately we had to cancel this event. This is a meeting to discuss how three Children’s Social Care departments have sought to improve social workers’ analytic skills when making sense of information about a child’s life and well-being. It draws on Eileen Munro's (LSE) and Nancy Cartwright's (Durham) research on providing credible evidence of singular causal claims.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
CB-1017 (Confluence building)
*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
29 May 2025
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.
05 June 2025
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
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
Philosophy Department, Durham
CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm at the Philosophy Department and online via Teams.
09 October 2025
PO004, Department of Philosophy
16 October 2025
23 October 2025
30 October 2025
06 November 2025
13 November 2025
20 November 2025
Please join us celebrate the publication of Travis LaCroix's book
25 November 2025
UPDATE! Ustinov room at Van Mildert College, Millhill Ln, Durham DH1 3LH
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