Past events
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The Meaning of Misogyny Conference
30 June - 1 July 2026
We are delighted to say that registration is now open for The Meaning of Misogyny conference taking place at the University of Manchester on the 30th of June and 1st of July 2026. We have such an amazing selection of topics exploring the conceptual, semantic, pragmatic and social dimensions of misogynistic...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Simulating Expertise-Based Inference.
14:00 - 15:30 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...
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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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