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Objectivity, the Ideal of Value-Free Science, and Rudner’s Objection presented by Professor Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Universität Zürich) who will be discussing values and science, objectivity, scientific research programs, and related topics.

Friday 2 December, 2-4 pm, Napier building, room 210. North Terrace campus.

Biography: Paul Hoyningen-Huene is a philosopher of science with a PhD in theoretical physics. In 2014, he retired from his professorship for theoretical philosophy, especially philosophy of science, at the Institute of Philosophy of Leibniz ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Hannover, Germany. He now teaches philosophy of economics at the Department for Economics of the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Zurich, Switzerland. He is best known for his books Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of ScienceÌý(1993),ÌýFormal Logic: A Philosophical Approach (2004), and Systematicity: The Nature of ScienceÌý(2013).