Past events
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography.
14:00 - 15:30 21 July 2025
Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography. Evidence-based policy is typically grounded in a narrow conception of evidence, one that prioritizes comparative studies and quantitative meta-analyses as the preferred base for establishing causal claims. However, this prevailing theory of evidence—often...
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Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary Conference
2 - 4 July 2025
The year 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Diversity Reading List’s existence, and we are happy to invite you to celebrate with us the various efforts and projects dedicated to making philosophy a discipline of equal opportunity.Since 2015, the DRL has aimed to make philosophy more inclusive,...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions.
14:00 - 15:30 30 June 2025
How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions. Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute to co-producing evidence that can support interventions by involving diverse societal actors that range from individual...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Epistemic games and causal problems
13:00 - 14:30 16 June 2025
Epistemic games and causal problems: a framework for teaching the evaluation of scientific information. Studies in science education demonstrate that laypeople typically engage with science to meet situation-specific needs. Their interest in science often emerges only when it directly helps them solve...
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Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How Evidential Pluralism mitigates epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation.
14:00 - 15:30 14 April 2025
How Evidential Pluralism mitigates epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Evidential Pluralism, an emerging account of the epistemology of causality, can help to avoid epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation. This, in turn, supports the...
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