1 Jun 2018
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** JOINT EVENT: UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM (UvA) & CLUE+ VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM (VU) > Venue: University of Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy, Faculty room > Address: Oude Turfmarkt 141, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands > Date: Friday June 1, 2018 Attendance is free, but registration is required by emailing: M.G.Isaac@uva.nl. PRESENTATION Edouard Machery is Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon University), and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. His research is in philosophy of science, with a focus on the philosophical issues raised psychology and cognitive neuroscience, and he is also involved in the development of experimental philosophy. He has published more than 100 articles and chapters on these topics in the most distinguished venues, along with six authored or edited books, and he has been the editor of the Naturalistic Philosophy section of Philosophy Compass since 2012. He was awarded the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award by the University of Pittsburgh in 2011 and 2018 (senior category), the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2013, the Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh in 2017, a Humboldt Research Award at the Ruhr-University Bochum in 2017. He is a Regular Visiting Distinguished Professorship at Eidyn (Edinburgh) and a visiting Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University. He has been recently elected on the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association (2017-2020) and was also recently awarded a John Templeton funded fellowship for the ?The Geography of Philosophy? project (2018-2021). His work has been chronicled in The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. PROGRAM 10.30-11.30: Lecture in Philosophy of Science by Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) "The P<0.05 Controversy" In Benjamin et al. (2017) we proposed to cut the significance level by an order of magnitude in order to address some aspects of the replication crisis in psychology and other sciences. This paper has been widely discussed, often in a critical manner. In this talk, I will respond to some of the responses to our proposal. 12.00-13.30: Lunch at De Jaren 13.30-17.30: Workshop on Philosophy within its Proper Bounds (OUP, 2017) - Chairs: Henk de Regt (VU) & Federica Russo (UvA) 13.30-13.45: Presentation of the book by Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) 13.45-14.30: Peter Hawke (UvA) and Tom Schoonen (UvA) 14.30-15.15: Benedikt Löwe (UvA/Hamburg) 15.15-15.45: Coffee break 15.45-16.30: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU/Groningen) 16.30-17.15: Manuel Gustavo Isaac (Swiss NSF/UvA) 17.30-19.00: Drinks 19.00: Dinner at De Jaren *** Organizers: Manuel Gustavo Isaac (Swiss NSF/UvA), Henk de Regt (VU), and Federica Russo (UvA) *** Sponsors: Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam (UvA) & CLUE+ Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam