Recent Talks

“Values and Voluntarism”. The Bar-Hillel Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv. May 2014,  (A similar talk was presented at Notre Dame University, History and Philosophy of Science, November 2013.)

“John Stuart Mill, Pluralism, and the Philosophy of Science”.  University of Haifa.  May 2014.

“‘Condemned to Freedom’: Historical Antecedents of van Fraassen’s Epistemic Voluntarism”.  Hebrew University, Jerusalem. May 2014.     (A similar talk was presented at the European Philosophy of Science Association. Helsinki. August 2013.)

“Evolution, the Nature of Time, and the Status of Laws in the Cosmologies of Smolin and Peirce”.  Author meets Critics.  CSHPS 2014.

“Pluralism, Productive Partiality, and Progress”.  Presentation on Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome by Sarah S. Richardson.  Science, Technology, and Gender Conference. University of Waterloo. 2014.

“Philipp Frank and Thomas Kuhn”.  CSHPS 2015

“Empiricism, Values, and Voluntarism: Bas van Fraassen and Helen Longino”. The Springer Lecture for IHPST.  Rio de Janeiro.  August 2015.

“Values and Voluntarism Revisited”: The Stillman Drake Lecture for CSHPS. Calgary..

Invited for Spring 2017: Keynote Address for a graduate and postgraduate conference at the University of Alberta. 

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