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Public Outreach
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Lectures & Talks
A podcast on the incompatibility of science and religion
A brief history of Imre Lakatos and his contributions to LSE
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A brief talk on the history of the LSE Philosophy Department
A brief talk about Evidence Based Medicine
A Lecture about Structural Realism and why Psillos is wrong (given at a conference at the University of Western Ontario)
A brief talk about theory change and Scientific Realism
A brief talk about causal hypotheses in medicine
A brief talk on Popper and Kuhn on theory change
A lecture entitled: “The ‘Universe’ Starring Humankind?’ discussing the impact of scientific revolutions on humankind’s view of itself
My “Exaugural” Lecture at the LSE on “Evidence-Based Everything, but let’s do the Basing Properly
A Ted Talk on scientific revolutions and Structural Realism (at a one day conference with the general title ‘Brave New World’)
A Lecture analysing a classic case of a Lakatosian degenerating research programme in current medicine (on the occasion of a conference to mark Imre Lakatos’s Centenary at LSE, November 2022)
Blogs, Interviews & Profiles
An interview with the British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy
An interview contributing to the Oral History Project about the LSE (I don’t know who invented ‘Jim Worrell’)
A blog on Homeopathy and Evidence-Based Policy
A blog on the Placebo Effect and Evidence-Based Policy
A blog about The Ethical Homeopathic Placebo
Humanists UK produced this profile to mark my appointment as Patron
A blog about statins and cardio-vascular disease
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Radio Appearances
With Nancy Cartwright and Antony O’Hear, I discuss Karl Popper and Philosophy of Science generally, on Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time”
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With Simon Schaffer and Michela Massimi, I discuss the idea that there is such a thing as the Scientific Method on Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time”
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I participate in a discussion on the impact of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book “The Black Swan”
Not a radio appearance (thought it should have been!), with Alex Vorhoove on lead vocals, my band, The Critique of Pure Rhythm – performs my song ‘Possible Worlds‘