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  Yafeng Shan | Philosopher

selected talks

  • “Scientific Knowledge as Social Knowing Reconsidered.” The CONCEPT FEST, University of Cologne, Germany, 31/03/2023
  • "The Demarcation Problem Reconsidered." The "120 Years Since the Birth of Karl Popper" Conference, Sofia University, Bulgaria, 03/12/2022 
  • "Proximate and Ultimate Causation in Biology Reconsidered." The 7th Panhellenic Conference on Philosophy of Science, University of Athens, Greece, 02/12/2022 
  • “Rethinking Kuhn’s Legacy.” III Coloquio de filosofía e historia de la ciencia del Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 08/11/2022 
  • “In What Sense is Scientific Knowledge Social?” The Workshop on Knowing Science, University of Kent, UK, 25/10/2022 
  • “Causation in Biology.” Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics Seminar, Jagiellonian University, Poland, 20/10/2022 
  • "The Myths of Mendel." Centre for Science Studies Colloquium, Aarhus University, Denmark, 28/09/2022 
  • “History and Philosophy of Mixed Methods Research.” The “Mixed Methods: Development of Innovative Methods” Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 06/09/2022 
  • “Evidential Pluralism and Political Science.” The 4th Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science, Tartu, Estonia, 18/08/2022 
  • “Is Evidence of Mechanisms Sufficient for Making Within-case Causal Claims?” The 4th International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, Berlin, Germany, 15/08/2022 
  • “The 1900 'Rediscovery'.” “Mendel at 200”, Bristol, UK, 20/07/2022 [watch]
  • “Rethinking Progress.” “Understanding Progress and Progress in Understanding” Conference, University of Iceland, Iceland, 30/06/2022 
  • “Mayr's Proximate-Ultimate Distinction Reconsidered." The 14th International History of Philosophy of Science Conference, Irvine, USA, 21/06/2022 
  • “Evidential Pluralism and Legal Mechanism.” The “Diversity of Evidence” Symposium, University of Kent, UK, 30/05/2022 
  • “How to Establish a Causal Claim in the Social Sciences." The 4th 'Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy' Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 21/04/2022 
  • “Two Criteria of Concept Identification in Biology.” “Structure and Development of Concepts across the Life Sciences” Conference, Bielefeld University, Germany, 07/02/2022 
  • “Disambiguating Proximate and Ultimate 'Causes'." International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Huntington, USA, 13/07/2021 
  • “Applying Evidential Pluralism to the Social Sciences.” British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, 08/07/2021 
  • “What is the New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress?” “Understanding & Progress, in Science and Beyond” Zoom Workshop, University of Iceland, Iceland, 04/08/2020 
  • “Making Causal Claims in Sociology.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences Roundtable, Atlanta, USA, 14/03/2020 
  • “What Philosophical Progress is not.” “Philosophical Method(s)?” International Conference, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia, 06/12/2019 
  • ​“Scientific Development: Beyond Evolution, Revolution, and Specialisation.”  The “Revolution and Evolution: Development Models in Science, Culture and Society” Conference, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 29/11/2019 
  • “Weldon, No Biometricians?" International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Oslo, Norway, 10/07/2019 
  • "Scientific Explanation: Beyond Contrastivism and Non-Contrastivism." The 19th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Jerusalem, Israel, 16/06/2019 
  • "Analogical Reasoning: Lessons from Davy's work on Electrochemical Decomposition." The 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, USA, 02/11/2018 
  • "The Formation of the Concept of Dominance." "Concept Formation in Natural and Social Sciences" Workshop, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 19/10/2018 
  • “Davy on Analogical Reasoning.” The 22th International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Annual Conference 2018, University of Bristol, UK, 17/07/2018 
  • “Theory Choice in the Mendelian Revolution.” “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” Workshop, Durham University, UK, 30/10/2017
  • “Choice in the Mendelian-Biometrician Controversy: Why Weldon was not a Mendelian.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 19/07/2017
  • “Two Ways of Naturalising Metaphysics.” “Epistemology of Metaphysics” Ernst Mach Workshop 6, Prague, Czech Republic, 29/05/2017
  • “What is Recollection in the Meno?” British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, UK, 06/04/2017
  • “Conceptual Change and the Nature of Scientific Concepts.” “Conceptual Change in History” Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, 23/09/2016
  • “Exemplarising Mendel.” The 3rd Philosophy of Biology in the UK Conference, University of Bristol, UK, 08/06/2016
  • “Progressive Success: A Successful Defence of Selective Realism?” The History of Science and Contemporary Scientific Realism Conference, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA, 21/02/2016
  • “What did de Vries rediscover in 1900?” The 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki, Finland, 07/08/2015
  • “Gärtner and Mendel on Entwicklung.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Montreal, Canada, 06/07/2015
  • “Did Mendel Have Good Evidence? The Gap Problem in Hypothetico-Deductivism.” The 10th Annual UK Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, Durham University, UK, 16/04/2015
  • “Kuhn’s ‘Wrong Turning’ Revisited.” The 10th International History of Philosophy of Science Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 03/07/2014
  • “The Re-examination of Mendel’s Objective.” “Mutual Interactions.” The 2nd Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 20/08/2014
  • “What Entities Exist? A Lesson from the ‘Gene’.”  The “New Thinking about Scientific Realism” Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 07/08/2014
  • “Reconsidering Mendel’s Pisum.” The 9th Annual UK Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Leeds, UK, 11/04/2014
  • “Against Theory-Centric Classical Genetics.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Montpellier, France, 08/07/2013
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    • Monographs >
      • Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020)
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  • Events
    • The Kuhn Centennial Conference (Kent, 2022)
    • Causation in Biology Conference (Kent, 2022)
    • MMR and Causal Inference Workshop (Kent, 2022)
    • Causation Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Analogical Reasoning Workshop (Kent, 2021)
    • Metaphilosophy Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences Conference (Kent, 2020)
    • Historiography of Genetics Workshop (Tel Aviv, 2019)
  • Selected Talks
  • Media Coverage
  • Contact