{"id":90,"date":"2010-08-25T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/?p=90"},"modified":"2012-09-25T01:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:57:11","slug":"upcoming-conference-the-rise-of-empiricism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/upcoming-conference-the-rise-of-empiricism\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: The Rise of Empiricism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, 6-7 September 2010<br \/>\nDarlington Centre, Institute Building boardroom<\/p>\n<p>From the conference <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/arts\/philosophy\/news\/conferences.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Empiricism is often regarded as the characterising feature of modern  scientific method, and, in those approaches to psychology and the social  and economic sciences that seek to model themselves on successful  scientific practice in the physical and life sciences, it often acts as a  model of good practice. Yet what is advocated is a very simplified  model in which a rarefied notion of method as value-free inquiry is  presented as the essence of empiricism. The failings of such a  conception have long been evident, but the motivations behind the  various forms of empiricism have remained obscure. The conference will  explore new avenues to the original form of empiricism and show how it  was able to directly engage questions of value in a novel and revealing  way, and how its connection with \u2018hard\u2019 sciences was not merely to  provide a methodological gloss on these, but went to the core of what  scientific explanation consisted in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Anstey (Otago University)<\/li>\n<li>Millicent Churcher (Sydney University)<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney University)<\/li>\n<li>Peter Kail (Oxford University)<\/li>\n<li>Rhodri Lewis (Oxford University)<\/li>\n<li>David Macarthur (Sydney University)<\/li>\n<li>Liam Semler (Sydney University)<\/li>\n<li>Dejan Simko (Sydney University)<\/li>\n<li>Alberto Vanzo (Otago University)<\/li>\n<li>Anik Waldow (Sydney University)<\/li>\n<li>Charles Wolfe (Sydney University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Organiser:<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Anik Waldow<br \/>\nLecturer<br \/>\nDepartment of Philosophy, SOPHI<br \/>\nUniversity of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia<br \/>\nTelephone: +61 2 91141245<br \/>\nFax: +61 2 9351 3918<br \/>\nEmail: anik.waldow[at]sydney.edu.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, 6-7 September 2010<br \/>\nDarlington Centre, Institute Building boardroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[228,78,229],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-cfps","tag-conferences","tag-empiricism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/emxphi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}