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  Yafeng Shan | Philosopher

selected talks

“What is the New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress?” “Understanding & Progress, in Science and Beyond” Zoom Workshop, University of Iceland, Iceland, 04/08/2020
“Applying Evidential Pluralism to the Social Sciences.”
“Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences” Zoom Conference, University of Kent, UK, 16/07/2020
“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
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“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’.” “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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  • Home
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Selected Talks
  • Publications
    • Monographs >
      • Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020)
    • Edited Volumes
    • Special Issues
    • Journal Articles
    • Book Chapters
  • Events
    • Causation Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Analogical Reasoning Workshop (Kent, 2021)
    • Philosophical Methods Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences Conference (Kent, 2020)
    • Historiography of Genetics Workshop (Tel Aviv, 2019)
  • Contact