Events
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence, Outcomes, and the Logic of Care in Youth Mental Health Services.
11:00 - 12:30 23 April 2026
Randomised controlled trials are central to claims about effective mental health interventions, yet their assumptions rarely hold in youth mental health services, where interventions are not stable, mechanisms are not isolatable, and delivery is adapted contextually to each young person. Drawing on in depth case studies of three youth mental health...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Getting Results Reports Right.
15:00 - 16:30 26 May 2026
Just how we phrase the results report of an empirical study matters because the form and content of the report suggests what can and cannot be done with the study results and what the study can and cannot provide evidence for. This fact about results reports should not be surprising since, as JL Austin taught, ‘We do things with words’. I will...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Simulating Expertise-Based Inference.
15:00 - 16:30 22 June 2026
The reliability of causal inference based on a physician’s expertise has been a matter of debate. In recent work, Tabatabaei Ghomi and Stegenga developed a model to simulate such inferences in the context of medicine, evaluating a range of conditions under which a physician’s inferences about the effects of a drug are reliable or unreliable...
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