On Friday 23 October\, Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University) will take questions on his talk -- “Does Sc ience Progress?”\, a recording of which will be made available before the s ession.
Abstract: Over the past decade\ , there has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in what scientific progr ess might be. However\, the debate rests on shaky conceptual foundations an d dubious implicit assumptions.
In this talk\, I will show how explor ing the aforementioned foundations and assumptions - and trying to render v ague ubiquitous metaphors such as ’the aim of science’ more precise - leads to the identification of reasonable perspectives on scientific progress th at have neither been appreciated nor scrutinised in the contemporary philos ophical literature. I will argue that there is a strong possibility that th e current debate is misconceived and that the titular question should be an swered in the negative.
About the Speaker: Darrell R owbottom is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lingnan Universi ty. Prior to his appointment at Lingnan\, Professor Rowbottom was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Oxford) and worked at several o ther universities in the UK\, including Aberdeen\, Bristol\, Durham\, and E dinburgh. The "core connected questions that drive [his] research are: 'How should we inquire about the world' and 'What can we know about the world?' " For more information\, please visit his website.
Event Note: Pro fessor Rowbottom will be prerecording his lecture\, "Does Science Progress? " Those interested in attending the live Q&A session on Friday 23 October s hould get in touch with phil.undergrad@ubc.ca for access to both the prerec orded lecture and Zoom meeting details.
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