CHESS Seminar Series 2022/23 - FULL PROGRAMME

CHESS Seminar Series 2023/24 - FULL PROGRAMME TO BE CONFIRMED

Staff and students are very welcome at the following events hosted by CHESS this academic year. For further information on all our events, including details on how to register, contact us at admin.chess@durham.ac.uk

Helen Longino Event photo

Speaker	Details	Title	Abstract
			It has recently been maintained (both by Anna Mathani and Tim Williamson) that there are general philosophical arguments in support of the claim that a concept like ex ante Pareto superiority cannot in general be well applied to the social world, and that this may have wide-ranging consequences in the philosophy of social science as it may concern all concepts whose applications presuppose that we can track individuals through changes. This talk will investigate this claim from the perspective that we should first investigate and analyze the best scientific practice concerning relevant matters. I shall argue that in this case the negative general philosophical claim cannot be legitimately made: Social scientists have seen the problem and adequate measures can be and have been taken.
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