Friday 17 April

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IHPS workshop, Durham, 16-17 April 2015
Thursday 16th April
12.00-13.25
Lunch + registration (Scarborough Café)
13.30-13.40
Welcome
13.45-14.35
Plenary (i) – Hasok Chang (Cambridge)
Location: CG85 (Chair: Peter Vickers)
If you can spray phlogiston, is it real? Evidence and integrated HPS
14.40-16.10
2x3 parallel talks
In CG85 (Chair: Holger Maehle):
14.40: Erman Sözüdoğru (UCL): History of Neglected Tropical Diseases: a Case for Epistemic Pluralism
15.10: Alexandra Traykova (Durham): Anti-vaccination rhetoric then and now – logical fallacies gone viral
15.40: Cheryl Lancaster (Durham): The First Identification of Embryonic Stem Cells: What’s the Evidence?
In CG83 (Chair: William Peden):
14.40: Alison Fernandes (Columbia): A Deliberative Account of Causation
15.10: Tom Rossetter (Durham): Imaginary Evidence: How Thought Experiments Reveal Nature’s Powers
15.40: Toby Friend (UCL): Pluralism Needs Laws
16.15-16.35
Refreshments (Scarborough Café)
16.40-17.30
Plenary (ii) – Catherine Wilson (York)
Location: CG85 (Chair: Tom Rossetter)
Experimental and Speculative Revisited: What was Behind the Rejection of
"Hypotheses"?
17.45-18.30
Wine reception
19.00
Dinner (Zizzi’s)
Friday 17th April
09.25-10.55
2x3 parallel talks
In CG85(Chair: Tom Bunce):
09.25: J. Brian Pitts (Cambridge): Space-time Theory, Particle Physics and Evidence
09.55: Jim Grozier (UCL): Absolute Measurement and its Legacy
10.25: Mauricio Suárez (Madrid/London): The Origin of Quantum Propensities: Henry Margenau’s ‘Latency’
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IHPS workshop, Durham, 16-17 April 2015
In CG83 (Chair: Ian Kidd):
09.25: Elizabeth Dobson Jones (UCL): The “Death” of Ancient DNA Research: Expectations and Evidence
09.55: Alper Bilgili (Leeds): Trials of a Debate: A Late Ottoman Response to Darwinism
10.25: Yafeng Shan (UCL): Did Mendel have good evidence for Segregation? The Gap Problem in HypotheticoDeductivism
11.00-11.20
Refreshments (Scarborough Café)
11.25-12.55
2x3 parallel talks
In CG85 (Chair: Cheryl Lancaster):
11.25: Nick Binney (Exeter): History as evidence – disease, historical contingency and the genetic fallacy
11.55: Andreas Sommer (Cambridge): Standards of evidence and the reception of unorthodox science. A
fundamental challenge for integrated HPS?
12.25: Ian Kidd (Durham): Why did Feyerabend defend astrology? Lessons for integrated HPS
In CG83 (Chair: Anna de Bruyckere):
11.25: Sabina Leonelli (Exeter): Valuing Data as Evidence for Multiple Claims: A Relational Approach to Data
Epistemology
11.55: Gregor Halfmann (Exeter): Is data always evidence? On values of data in oceanography
12.25: Dominic Berry (Leeds): Landscapes and labscapes? - Field science and the standards of experimental
practice
13.00-14.00
Lunch (Scarborough Café)
14.05-14.55
Plenary (iii) – Greg Radick (Leeds)
Location: CG85 (Chair: Robin Hendry)
Is Mendel's Evidence 'Too Good to Be True'? An Integrated HPS
Perspective
15.00-16.00
2x2 parallel talks
In CG85 (Chair: Rune Nyrup):
15.00: Julia Sánchez-Dorado (UCL): Some historical lessons about ‘similarity’ to clarify current philosophical
debates on scientific representation
15.30: Chris Campbell (UCL): Charles Peirce and Prout’s Hypothesis
In CG83 (Chair: Sarah Wieten):
15.00: Lijing Jiang (Leeds): Evidence for Dialectics or Evidence for Production: Crafting Socialist Embryology in
China, 1950-1963
15.30: Dolores Iorizzo (UCL): Cures for Madness, Menstruating Men, and An Account of a Child Being Taken
out of the Abdomen, after Having Lain There Upwards of 16 Years, during Which Time the Woman
Had 4 Children, All Born Alive: The Secret Life of Early Royal Society Medical Experiments