Dear all, This Monday, Serious Metaphysics will begin Lent term with a paper from our own Jeremy Butterfield "Under-determination in Cosmology" (abstract below). We will meet at 12pm in the Philosophy Board Room, and the session will run for one hour. The rest of the term's program should be up on the website today, and it runs as follows:
Jan 16 - Jeremy Butterfield Jan 23 - Robert Northcott Jan 30 - Yohan Joo Feb 6 - Allan Hazlett Feb 13 - Bence Nanay Feb 20 - Shyane Siriwarden Feb 27 - Daniel Brigham Mar 5 - Max Hummel I look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Emily T ____________________________ Abstract: I discuss how modern cosmology illustrates under-determination of theoretical hypotheses by data, in ways that are different from most philosophical discussions. I confine most of the discussion to the history of the observable universe from about one second after the Big Bang, as described by the mainstream cosmological model: in effect, what cosmologists in the early 1970s dubbed the `standard model', as elaborated since then. Or rather, the discussion is confined to a (very!) few aspects of that history. I emphasise that despite the under-determination, a scientific realist can, and should, endorse this description. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are now archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
