Past events
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Getting Results Reports Right.
14:00 - 15:30 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...
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The 2026 Dorothy Emmet Public Lecture
15:00 - 17:00 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:...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence, Outcomes, and the Logic of Care in Youth Mental Health Services.
10:00 - 11:30 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...
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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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