Michael Strevens
When:
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
Where: Swift Hall, 107, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Benjamin Dionysus
(847) 467-2035
Group: Cognitive Science Program
Category: Academic
Description:
"Conceptual Innovation in Science without Definitions"
I will give a new account, about one-half philosophy and one-half psychology, of how novel scientific concepts—such as 'magnetism', 'phlogiston', 'phylum', 'gene', 'general intelligence', 'symbolic capital'—are introduced into science.