Conference presentations (selected)
I have given a number of papers to national
and international conferences, to undergraduate and postgraduate societies, and
also given public lectures on a range of philosophical topics.
Email: i.j.kidd@durham.ac.uk
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2013:
1. ‘Buddhism, Science, and Soteriology’. Philosophy
in Cross-Cultural Context. University of Durham, 11 July.
2. ‘Unconceived
Alternatives and Epistemic Humility’. Unconceived
Alternatives and Scientific Realism. University of Durham. 1-2 July.
3. ‘Silencing the Sick’ (co-authored with Havi Carel). Centre for
Medical Humanities seminar, University of Durham, 24 June.
4. ‘Nature’s Mystery’. International Society
for Environmental Ethics: Tenth Annual Meeting on Environmental Philosophy.
12-14 June.
5. ‘Epistemic Humility’. Cambridge Philosophy of
Science (CAMPoS). University of Cambridge, 22 May.
6. ‘Can Experiences of Illness Be Morally
Improving?’ Understanding Human Flourishing, University of Durham, 16-17
May.
7. ‘Are There Scholarly Virtues?’, Castle
Scholars Seminar Series, Durham Castle, 1 May.
8. ‘Integrated
HPS Is Necessary To Understand The Role Of Epistemic Virtues in Science: The
Case of Crookes' Spooks’. Eighth UK Integrated History and Philosophy of
Science Workshop: Convincing the Sceptics, University of Aberdeen, 11-12 April.
9. ‘Silencing the Sick’ (co-authored with Havi Carel) Department of
Philosophy Research Seminar. University of Hull, 5 March.
10. ‘Experiences of Illness and Narratives of
Moral Growth’. Narrating Time seminar series, University of Durham, 21
February.
11. ‘Epistemic Injustice and Illness’
(co-authored with Havi Carel).
Department of Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Lancaster, 6 February.
12. ‘Was Sir William Crookes Epistemically
Virtuous?’, Psychical Research in the History of
Medicine and the Sciences, University College London, 25-29 January.
13. ‘Is Scientism
Epistemically Vicious?’. Department of Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Durham, 17 January.
2012:
14. ‘Receptivity to
Mystery’. Durham University Philosophical Society, 11 October.
15. ‘Is Naturalism Bleak?’. EIDOS Postgraduate Philosophy Society Summer Workshop,
9 October.
16. ‘Science, Choice,
and Hegemony: Making Sense of Feyerabend’s Political
Philosophy’. Reassessing Feyerabend’s
Philosophy,
Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin, Germany, 8-12 September, invited.
17. ‘Spiritual Praxis
and Religious Education’. Religion, Education, and Critical Realism:
Inter-disciplinary Dialogue about Reality, Knowledge and the Pursuit of Truth,
Oxford Brookes University, 7-8 September 2012.
18. ‘Is a Religious
Life One Of Embodied Virtue?’ Embodied Religion: The 19th
Conference of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Soesterberg, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 30
August-2 September.
19. ‘What Are The
Proper Objects of Philosophical Enquiry?’. EIDOS
Postgraduate Philosophy Society Summer Workshop, 20 July.
20. ‘Recovering
Edification as a Source of Value’. Understanding Value, University of
Sheffield, 11-13 July.
21. ‘Wittgenstein,
Feyerabend, and Scientism’. Wittgenstein on Scientism, Durham
University, 3 July.
22. ‘Happy Marriage or Ménage A Trois? Integrated History and Philosophy of Science,
Third-Party Mediators, and Virtue Epistemology’, Seventh UK Integrated
History and Philosophy of Science Workshop: The Many Ways of Integrating HPS,
UCL, 28-29 June.
23. ‘We Should Reject Inevitabilism’. Historiography and the Philosophy of the
Sciences, University of Durham, 25 June.
24. ‘Is The Scientific
Style of Explanation Privileged?’. EIDOS
Postgraduate Philosophy Society, University of Durham, 21 June.
25. ‘Charles Hoy Fort,
“The Foe of Science”: Presenting An Entirely Unknown Antecedent to Thomas Kuhn
and His Model of Science’. History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Workshop, University
of Durham, 19 June.
26. ‘Scepticism about
Secularism’. Durham University Humanist and Secularist Society, 18 June.
27. ‘What Is
Scientism?’ History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, University of
Leeds, 2 May, invited.
28. ‘Can An
Epistemically Virtuous Archaeologist Repatriate Human Remains?’ Durham
University Archaeology Society Conference, 28 April, invited.
29. ‘Is Scientism
Epistemically Vicious?’ (New) Atheism, Scientism and Open-mindedness,
University of Lancaster, 2-3 April.
30. ‘Can Illness Be
Edifying?’, Department of Philosophy Research Seminar, University of
Durham, 23 February
31. ‘What is
Scientism?’ EIDOS Postgraduate Philosophy Society, University of Durham,
18 January.
2011:
32. ‘Angelic
Epistemology, the ‘Worms of the Earth’, and the Land of the Lotus-Eaters’. Durham
University Philosophical Society, 14 October.
33. ‘Phenomenology,
Naturalism, and Epistemic Virtues’. Phenomenology and Naturalism, Royal
Institute of Philosophy conference 2011, University of the West of England,
31 August-2 September.
34. ‘Beauty, Virtue,
and Ageing’. EIDOS Postgraduate Philosophy Society Summer
Workshop, University of
Durham, 28 July.
35. ‘What Can The
History Of Science Tell Us About Its Future?’ British Society for the
History of Science Annual Conference, University of Exeter, 14-17 July.
36. ‘Feyerabend, Kuhn,
and Virtue Epistemology’. British Society for the Philosophy of Science,
University of Sussex, 7-8 July.
37. ‘A Role for
Epistemic Virtues in Archaeological Practice? The Case Of ‘Epistemic
Beneficence’’. Third Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of
Science in Practice, University of Exeter, 22-24 June.
38. ‘Can Illness Be
Edifying?’ EIDOS Postgraduate Philosophy Society, University of Durham,
19 May.
39. ‘Beauty, Virtue,
and Scientific Inquiry’. Aesthetics Workshop, University of Durham, 18
May.
40. ‘The Moral
Historiography of Epistemic Humility as a Problem for Integrated History and
Philosophy of Science’. Sixth Annual Integrated History and Philosophy of
Science Workshop. University of Cambridge, 18-19 April.
41. ‘Teaching
Intellectual Virtues Using HPS’. Sixth Annual Integrated History and
Philosophy of Science Workshop. University of Cambridge, 18-19 April.
42. ‘Phenomenology and
the Solubility of Science and Religion Disputes’. Applied Phenomenology
Workshop, University of Durham, 14 April.
43. ‘Truthfulness and
the Prospects for Philip Kitcher’s ‘Public Reason’’. EIDOS Postgraduate Philosophy
Society, University of Durham, 10 March.
44. ‘Must Science
Remain A Feature Of Future Human Cultures?’ Department of Philosophy
Research Seminar, University of Durham, 10 February 2011.
2010:
45. ‘Can Theological Virtues Be Secularised?’ Religion
and Catastrophes Interdisciplinary Workshop, Institute for Hazard, Risk and
Resilience, University of Durham, 15 December.
46. ‘Pluralism, Humility, and the Radical
Contingency of Science’. Science, Contingency, and Pluralism, University
of Durham, 30 November.
47. ‘The True, the Good, and the Value of
Science’. Twelfth Annual Durham-Bergen Conference, University of Durham,
13 November.
48. ‘Sciences, Futures, and Utopia’. Ustinov
Seminar / Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham, 6 November.
49. ‘Is It Intellectually Virtuous To Be An
Epistemic Pluralist?’ Fifth Annual Integrated History and Philosophy of
Science Workshop. University of Exeter, 27-28 June.
50. ‘Feyerabend, Mill, And Pluralism’, EIDOS
Postgraduate Philosophy Society, University of Durham, 13 May.
51. ‘Science, Religion, and Human Life’. Ustinov
Seminar, University of Durham, 1 May.
52. ‘Phenomenology, Historicity, and Modernity’. Applied
Phenomenology workshop, University of Durham, 20 April.
53. ‘Pluralism For Progress: A Critique Of
‘Integrative Medicine’’. Progress in Medicine. University of Bristol,
13-15 April.
54. ‘Pluralism and the Ineffability of Reality in
the Later Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend’. Department of Science and
Technology Studies, University College London, 24 March.
55. ‘Art and Science’ (with Chiara Ambrosio, UCL STS). The Stage, University College
London (Beacon bursary-funded public event), 22 March.
56. ‘Realism, Pluralism, and The
‘Problem Of Reality’ In The Later Philosophy Of Paul Feyerabend’. History
and Philosophy of Science and Medicine workshop, University of Durham, 25
February.
2009:
57. ‘Humility, Hubris, and Scientific
Absolutism’. Graduate Epistemology Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 29
November.
58. ‘Zhuangzi, Perspectivism, and Intellectual Virtues’. EIDOS Postgraduate
Philosophy Society,
University of Durham, 18 November.
59. ‘Science, Pseudoscience, and the Demarcation
Problem’. Department of Sociology, University of York, 31 October.
60. ‘The Limits of Science: Contingency,
Cognitive Capacity, and Human Cultures’. EIDOS Postgraduate Philosophy Society, University of Durham, 14 October.
61. ‘Pluralism and Intellectual Virtues: A
Critique of Metaphysical Naturalism’. British Postgraduate Philosophy
Association Annual Conference, Kings College London, 14-15 July.
62. ‘Rethinking Epistemological Dadaism:
Feyerabend on Theory and Practice In Art And Science’.
Fourth Annual Joint Integrated History and Philosophy of Science workshop,
University of Durham, 1 June.
63. ‘Being ‘At Home’ In the World in an Age Of Science’. Ustinov Seminar/Institute of Advanced Studies,
University of Durham, 14 March.
64. ‘Oswald Spengler, Technology, and Human
Nature: Man and Technics as Philosophical Anthropology’. EIDOS
postgraduate society, University of Durham, 1 March.
2008:
65. ‘Homer Vs. Xenophanes: Or, Where Did All The
Gods Go? Feyerabend’s Radical Philosophical
Historiography’, EIDOS Postgraduate Philosophy Society, 12 November.
66. ‘Feyerabend’s
Humanitarian Critique of Science’. British Society for the Philosophy of
Science, University of St Andrews, 10-11 July.
67. ‘Science, Epistemic Activities, and
Metaphysical Realism: Themes in the Later Work of Paul Feyerabend’. Third
Joint Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University
College London, 20 June.
68. ‘Feyerabend and the Humanitarian Criticism Of Science’. ScienceFutures,
Centre for the History of Knowledge (ETH Zurich and University of Zurich) and
the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society
(STS-CH), ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, 6-9 February.
2007:
69. ‘Managing Complexity: A Brief History Of
Modelling in the Physical and Human Sciences’. Ustinov Seminar/Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Durham, 3 November.
70. ‘Feyerabend on Classificatory Pluralism’. Nature
and its Classification, AHRC Metaphysics of Science Project,
University of Birmingham, 13-14 October.
71. ‘Science, Environment, and Culture’. Ustinov Seminar/Institute of Advanced Studies, University of
Durham, 28 April.
Email: i.j.kidd@durham.ac.uk
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