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Fri, Sep 11, 2015
4:00 pm
Presenter: Prof. Bryson Brown (Department of Philosophy)
Title: On The Preservation of Reliability
Reasoning in science combines detailed, sophisticated and rigorous calculations with a multiplicity of models, assumptions and approximations whose status is very difficult to determine. The logical incompatibility of these models, assumptions and approximations raises questions about the nature and status of the both the premises and the conclusions of scientific reasoning.