Selected events:

EBM+ Workshop, 7 March 2023

Online on MS Teams. (Please contact Michael Wilde for the link: m.e.wilde@kent.ac.uk.)

Please join us for a “meet the author” session with Prof. Trish Greenhalgh (Oxford) to discuss the recent paper: Greenhalgh T, Fisman D, Cane DJ, et al. Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent, BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2022;27:253-260.

Organiser: Michael Wilde (Kent).

Workshop on Knowing Science, 25 October 2022

Darwin College, University of Kent, Canterbury.

What can philosophy of science learn from traditional epistemology? Among other things, it has been argued that knowledge first epistemology provides insights into the notion of scientific progress, the nature of scientific evidence, and the role of inference to the best explanation in science. This workshop will bring together philosophers of science to evaluate such arguments as they appear in a forthcoming by Alexander Bird: Knowing Science (Oxford University Press).

Speakers: Helen Beebee (Manchester), Alexander Bird (King’s College London), Nick Emmerson (Birmingham),  Yafeng Shan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Jon Williamson (Kent).

Organiser: Michael Wilde (Kent).

Funders: Mind Association; British Society for the Philosophy of Science.

Conference on The Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 1-3 June, 2021

Speakers: Bennett Holman (Yonsei), Phyllis Illari (UCL), Elena Rocca (NMBU), Federica Russo (Utrecht), and David Teira (UNED).

Organisers: Juergen Landes (LMU Munich) and Michael Wilde (Kent).

Evidence Workshop, 4-5 June 2014

Darwin College, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Speakers: Jessica Brown (St Andrews), Clayton Littlejohn (ANU), Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh), Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge), Jon Williamson (Kent), and Timothy Williamson (Oxford).

Organisers: Julien Murzi (Salzburg) and Michael Wilde (Kent).

Funders: Mind Association; Centre for Reasoning; Kent Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities.