Past events
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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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Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary Conference
2 - 4 July 2025
The year 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Diversity Reading List’s existence, and we are happy to invite you to celebrate with us the various efforts and projects dedicated to making philosophy a discipline of equal opportunity.Since 2015, the DRL has aimed to make philosophy more inclusive,...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions.
14:00 - 15:30 30 June 2025
How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions. Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute to co-producing evidence that can support interventions by involving diverse societal actors that range from individual...
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