Events
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The 2026 Dorothy Emmet Public Lecture
16:00 - 18:00 21 May 2026
The 2026 Dorothy Emmet public lecture at the University of Manchester will be given by Professor Elisa Paganini (Università degli Studi di Milano) on Thursday 21st May from 4-6pm. The lecture is open to all - we hope to see you there! The Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Do We Need Truth in Fiction? Abstract: Fiction is thought to work by telling us what...
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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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