Events from the 01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025 Reset
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
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)
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
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.
29 May 2025
05 June 2025
12 June 2025
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