Christopher Clarke

Name:	Christopher Clarke
Affiliation:	HPS, Cambridge
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Talks given by Christopher Clarke

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• The metaphysics of race: distinctions without any differences
• Causation as a thermodynamic phenomenon
• How autonomous are social scientific explanations?

Talks organised by Christopher Clarke

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• Idealization, abstraction and the ontic view of explanation
• There is no problem of interpersonal comparisons
• International Paretianism: a palatable response to climate change?
• From the biological self to psychological self
• The philosophical role of illness
• The metaphysics of race: distinctions without any differences
• Psychometric validation as theory avoidance
• Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)
• Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics
• Does the missing fundamental require an inferentialist explanation?
• Kinds and degrees of (scientific) understanding
• The subterranean influence of pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein
• Causation and prediction in epidemiology
• Interventionist causation and the placement problem
• Title to be confirmed
• Things don't fall apart: persistence and functional explanation in social science
• Farewell to content
• Causation as a thermodynamic phenomenon
• The realist stance
• Accuracy-first epistemology
• Inclusive fitness, group selection and human sociality
• Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation
• The special science dilemma and how culture solves it
• The scientific method: ignorance, uncertainty, doubt, failure...
• Nomic truth approximation by revising models and postulates in the light of increasing evidence
• Triangulation of phenomena
• Infinitesimal probabilities
• Inference to the best explanation and paradigms
• How we manage to manage 'knowledge': using computational infrastructures in semantic systems biology
• Human nature: from theory to practice
• The epistemic innocence project
• Propensities and pragmatism
• The plurality of priority
• Towards a unified model of a human being
• On the evolutionary origins of morality
• Gestalt switches in the prize paper: inspiration for, but not an instance of, chaos
• The topology of intertheoretic reduction
• Armchair science
• Individual risk: does it exist?
• A processual perspective on biology