CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) is a network of academics and students working in the philosophy of science in various parts of the University of Cambridge, including the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Faculty of Philosophy. The Wednesday afternoon seminar series features current research by CamPoS members as well as visitors to Cambridge and scholars based in nearby institutions. In the 2024–25 year, CamPoS is being organised by Miguel Ohnesorge (mo459).
Seminars are held on Wednesdays, 1.00–2.30pm in Seminar Room 2.
Easter Term 2025
30 April
Clara Bradley (UCL)
The relationship between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics: the irregular case
7 May
Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick)
The myth of the naïve empiricist
14 May
Teru Miyake (NTU Singapore)
Precision and active knowledge: measuring the fundamental physical constants, 1967–2018
21 May
Chiara Martini (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
The role of diagrams in Euclidean geometry
28 May
Lee McIntyre (Boston University)
The pragmatic vindication of warranted belief
4 June
Ahmad Elabbar (Darwin College, Cambridge)
TBD
11 June
Michael Diamond-Hunter (HPS, Cambridge)
TBD
18 June
Rebecca L. Jackson (Durham University)
The APGAR score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments