Dana Tulodziecki, Purdue University September 27 at 3pm in Clark Hall 206 How do false theories enable scientific progress? One central question in philosophy of science is how to reconcile the success of science with the fact that many past scientific theories were radically false and have long been abandoned. In this talk, I examine the transition from miasmatic views of disease to germ views in Britain in the mid-1800s, and show that the miasma theory, even though it hardly had anythin...| Department of Philosophy
Friday, February 24, 2023| Department of Philosophy
The philosopher Ian Hacking famously suggested that philosophical theorizing on the| Department of Philosophy
Black Women, State Violence, and the Logic of the Narrative of ‘Mothers of the Movement’ February 16, 2022, 6pm Dr. Shaeeda Mensah Assistant Professor of Philosophy McDaniel College Dr. Mensah is an assistant professor of philosophy at McDaniel College. She earned a PhD in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. fin sociology from Spelman College. Her areas of research specialization include black feminisms, social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, and feminis...| Department of Philosophy