Sandra D. Mitchell - Unsimple Truths
01/14/2010 7:00 pm
Sandra Mitchell, a professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, visits with her book Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy. Birds form coherent patterns when they flock, major depressive disorder has some sort of genetic basis, the global climate is changing, but we can’t predict exactly how fast. What do these diverse things have in common? They are all complex, being made up of many parts interacting to generate the feature we attempt to explain. Mitchell explores these and other examples and argues that contemporary scientific explanation requires us to shift out of an old philosophical framework to accommodate emergence, dynamic causality and deep uncertainty. How we think about the world, how we investigate the world and how we act in the world must be revised to make sense of complexity.
Location:
- Street:
- Changing Hands Bookstore
- Additional:
- 6428 S McClintock Dr
- City:
- Tempe ,
- Province:
- Arizona
- Postal Code:
- 85283
- Country:
- United States
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