2024
CPS Book Club: Adam Toon
Adam Toon (University of Exeter) will discuss his book Mind as Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism.
Time and place: Dec. 11, 2024 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM, GMH 452
The CPS Book Club invites philosophers of science to share the behind-the-scenes of their book-writing journeys. In a field dominated by articles, we'll delve into the unique experience of crafting book-length research and discuss the challenges and decision-making involved in this process.
In this meeting, we will host Adam Toon (Egenis, The Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter). Francesca Bellazzi will discuss with him the experience of writing his new book Mind as Metaphor (Oxford University Press).
The meeting would be in person. Adam will also give a talk at the OMLET seminar earlier that day.
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CPS Book Club: Salvatore Florio and Øystein Linnebo
Salvatore Florio and Øystein Linnebo on ‘The Many and the One’ (interviewed by Guendalina Righetti).
Time and place: Nov. 6, 2024 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM, GMH 652 and Zoom
The CPS Book Club invites philosophers of science to share the behind-the-scenes of their book-writing journeys. In a field dominated by articles, we'll delve into the unique experience of crafting book-length research and discuss the challenges and decision-making involved in this process. Each session will be held in a hybrid format, followed by an informal gathering at Eckers.
In this meeting, we will host Salvatore Florio and Øystein Linnebo. Guendalina Righetti will discuss with them their experience of writing 'The Many and the One' (2021).
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CPS Book Club: Nick Huggett and Christian Wuthrich
Nick Huggett and Christian Wuthrich on ‘Out of Nowhere: the emergence of spacetime in theories of quantum gravity’.
Time and place: Oct. 14, 2024 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM, GMH 652 and Zoom
Let's Talk Books! The CPS Book Club invites philosophers of science to share the behind-the-scenes of their book-writing journeys. In a field dominated by articles, we'll delve into the unique experience of crafting book-length research and discuss the challenges and decision-making involved in this process. Each session will be held in a hybrid format, followed by an informal gathering at Eckers.
In this meeting, we will host Nick Huggett and Christian Wüthrich. Timo Christian Antero Airikka will lead a discussion with them about their forthcoming book 'Out of Nowhere: the emergence of spacetime in theories of quantum gravity’.
Nick Huggett (PhD Rutgers University, 1995) is an LAS Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. His specialties are the philosophy of science and the philosophy of physics. His early publications concentrated on quantum field theory, and theories of space from antiquity to the present. In recent years he has been collaborating with Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva) on a project on the philosophy of quantum gravity. He has written or edited six books and over 50 articles on these topics.
Christian Wüthrich (PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2006) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Geneva, where he heads the Geneva Symmetry Group. He works primarily in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. From 2006 to 2015, he was at the University of California, San Diego. He is the Co-Director (with Nick Huggett) of the Beyond Spacetime research project on the philosophy of quantum gravity. He has edited six books or special issues of journals and has published over 40 articles.
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CPS Book Club: Angela Potochnik
Angela Potochnik on ‘Idealization and the Aims of Science’ (interviewed by Sara Pernille Jensen).
Time and place: Sep. 11, 2024 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM, GMH 652 and Zoom
The CPS Book Club invites philosophers of science to share the behind-the-scenes of their book-writing journeys. In a field dominated by articles, we'll delve into the unique experience of crafting book-length research and discuss the challenges and decision-making involved in this process. Each session will be held in a hybrid format, followed by an informal gathering at Eckers.
In this meeting, we will host Angela Potochnik. Sara Pernille Jensen will discuss with her the experience of writing ‘Idealization and the Aims of Science’.
Angela Potochnik is Professor of Philosophy, Head of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati. Her research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in science, especially biology. She is the author of Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017) and Science and the Public (2024) and coauthor of Recipes for Science (2018, 2nd Ed. 2024), an introduction to scientific methods and reasoning. She earned her PhD from Stanford University in 2007.
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CPS Book Club: Jim Tabery
Jim Tabery on 'Tyranny of the Gene - Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health' (interviewed by Yael Friedman).
Time and place: Aug. 28, 2024 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM, GMH 652 and Zoom
Let's Talk Books! CPS Book Club invites philosophers of science to share the behind-the-scenes of their book-writing journeys. In a field dominated by articles, we'll delve into the unique experience of crafting book-length research and discuss the challenges and decision-making involved in this process. Each session will be held in a hybrid format, followed by an informal gathering at Eckers.
In the first meeting, we will host Jim Tabery to discuss his experience of writing his book, Tyranny of the Gene — Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health (2023).
Jim Tabery (PhD, MA) is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Center for Health Ethics, Arts & Humanities at the University of Utah. Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) is his second book; portions of it appeared in The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , and WIRED .
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