Past events
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(Un)common methodologies in History and the History of Philosophy
09:00 - 17:00 25 March 2026
This workshop aims to bring into contact academics from the history of philosophy, philosophy of history, and intellectual history. If you wish to attend, please register in the link below since there is limited space. Confirmed speakers: Georg Christ (UoM, Medieval and Early Modern History); Emily...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence for mechanisms and the challenge of mechanism individuation
15:00 - 16:30 17 March 2026
(Joint work with Till Grüne-Yanoff.) Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are widely used to inform policy decisions in the social and behavioural sciences. Yet both philosophers and scientists have raised doubts about the of effect-size evidence from RCTs when it comes to policy extrapolation. A common...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Combining evidence for establishing causality.
15:00 - 16:30 23 February 2026
Medicine and health science relies on a variety of methods, but do they establish the same thing? It is not uncommon that the available evidence points in different directions with respect to causality. In the standard evidence hierarchy, the priority in case of conflicting evidence is clear. In this...
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Open Minds XVIII The Eighteenth Annual Philosophy Conference for Postgraduate Students in Philosophy
2 - 3 October 2025
We are delighted to announce the eighteenth annual Open Minds Conference for graduate students in philosophy. Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working in all areas of philosophy the chance to present their work and gain feedback in a welcoming and friendly environment....
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography.
14:00 - 15:30 21 July 2025
Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography. Evidence-based policy is typically grounded in a narrow conception of evidence, one that prioritizes comparative studies and quantitative meta-analyses as the preferred base for establishing causal claims. However, this prevailing theory of evidence—often...
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