CPS Past events
07
Dec
2023
Neuroscience, Responsibility, and the Law
The law makes assumptions about how people think—how we reason, why we act, and what it takes for us to be responsible. Advances in neuroscience constantly...
26
Jun
2023
Evolvability: A Bridge Between the Proximate and Ultimate?
Whilst scientists sometimes attribute the differential diversification, adaptedness, and disparity of lineages to their "evolvability", the exact nature of...
21
Jun
2023
Medical Microbiome Research and Its Parallels with Galenic Medicine
Associate Professor Maureen O’Malley (School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney) will examine some of the problematic concepts in...
21
Jun
2023
Australia-New Zealand Philosophy of Biology Workshop
The A-NZ PhilBio Workshop is a new, regular, mid-year workshop for the philosophy of biology community across Australia and New Zealand, with a focus on...
05
Aug
2022
Global Climate Policy for Philosophers
This presentation is an overview of the Global Climate Regime: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, the...
03
Aug
2022
From Causal Reasoning to Scientific Thinking
Young children have remarkable capacities for causal reasoning, which are part of the foundation of their scientific thinking abilities. In Constructing...
27
Jul
2022
Truth or Fiction in Historical Research: Finding a Middle Ground
Historical explanations require the interpretation of incomplete traces of the past. We generally conceive of history as a truth-telling practice, while...
