Matt Farr

Name:	Matt Farr
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	12 Feb 2026, 2:42 p.m.

Public lists managed by Matt Farr

Talks given by Matt Farr

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• The Physics and Philosophy of Directionless Time
• The C theory of time

Talks organised by Matt Farr

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• 'Measure once, cut twice': values and validity in youth mental health measurement
• Book symposium on Matteo Vagelli's 'Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science'
• AI revolution! At whose cost? Towards environmental AI ethics
• A conceptual framework for reactivity in social scientific measurement
• Kuhn and Feyerabend on pluralism, education and history
• The Apgar score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments
• The myth of the naïve empiricist
• Does artificial creativity require artificial consciousness?
• Is historical mathematics largely true?
• Do mathematical explanations impose a necessity on the natural world?
• Hacks and explanations via program execution
• Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries
• When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach
• What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS
• On the nonexistence of moralometers
• Ways of worldfaking
• Climate storylines and managing uncertainty
• Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing
• Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill
• What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?
• From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory
• P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted
• Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls
• Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship
• Learning from case studies
• Science and speculation
• Title to be confirmed
• Learning from sociological case studies
• Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice
• The good news about killing people
• The search for invertebrate consciousness
• Creativity and AI
• Pluralism about actual causation
• The replication crisis and philosophy
• An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Theories of consciousness and animal minds: a modest theoretical proposal
• On validators for psychiatric categories
• Does science progress?
• Early modern history of data and epistemology of form
• Follow the measures: conceptualization, measurement and interdisciplinarity in the science of empathy
• On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics
• A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction
• Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations
• Beauty, truth and understanding
• Spatial experience: more than mere structure
• Non-literal model interpretations
• Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies
• Explanatory directionality
• The C theory of time
• Time-asymmetry in thermal physics
• Memory: what is it good for?
• Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical examination
• Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments
• Leibniz, Mach and the C-Series
• Explanations for medical artificial intelligence
• Many Molyneux Questions