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CHESS Research Group Meeting

CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).

08 May 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Teams

  • Research event
  • Department of Philosophy

Joyce Havstad: Methodological Choice, Value-Criteria, and Fruitfulness

Joyce Havstad (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah; Fellow at the University of Hannover) visits Durham and gives a lecture on methodological choice in science.

08 May 2025

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Elvet Riverside ER278

  • Lecture
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

CHESS Research Group Meeting

CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).

15 May 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Teams

  • Research event
  • Department of Philosophy

Workshop on Child Protection 

Eileen Munro (LSE) and Nancy Cartwright (Durham) invite Social Work Managers in the North East to take part in a Workshop on Child Protection.

15 May 2025

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

CB-1017 (Confluence building)

  • Discussion
  • Outreach & community
  • Partnerships & Collaboration
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Workshop

How to Make Better Policy Predictions, with Child Protection Policy as a Case Study

Professor Nancy Cartwright (Durham University), Professor Eileen Munro (London School of Economics) and John Pemberton give a seminar based on their upcoming book.

22 May 2025

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Elvet Riverside ER278

  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming

Professor Nancy Cartwright first presented her lecture “In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming” as an Inaugural Mary Hesse Lecture in Cambridge on 24 Oct 2024.

29 May 2025

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Elvet Riverside ER278

  • Lecture
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

CHESS Research Group Meeting

CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).

05 June 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Teams

  • Research event
  • Department of Philosophy

CHESS Research Group Meeting

CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).

12 June 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Teams

  • Research event
  • Department of Philosophy

Intellectual Humility in Early Modern Science and Philosophy

This workshop is a follow-up to work done during 2021-23 on John Templeton Foundation grant, ‘The Successes and Failures of Science Through the Lens of Intellectual Humility: Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science’.

26 June 2025

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Department of Philosophy PO005

  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Workshop