{"id":94085,"date":"2018-09-19T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=94085"},"modified":"2018-09-19T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T06:45:14","slug":"howthelightgetsin-festival-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/howthelightgetsin-festival-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HowTheLightGetsIn Festival Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Helen Beebee is appearing at the festival this weekend. Read her new interview with 3:AM here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2018 Festival Programme<\/a><\/p>\n

Sat 22nd September
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We’ve already highlighted some of the philosophers at the event who we’ve interviewed at 3:AM here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The interpretation I prefer \u2013 call it the \u2018projectivist’ interpretation \u2013 is just as you said: causation is just something our minds impose on events out there in the world. We do, in fact, infer effects from causes<\/em>.’<\/p>\n

\u2018Lewis says that our aim as philosophers is to find out \u2018what equilibria there are that can withstand examination’, where an \u2018equilibrium’ is basically a reasonably complete body of philosophical \u2018opinion’.<\/em> \u00a0\u2018<\/p>\n

\u2018Our basic idea is that the Humean view of laws connects with a \u2018compatibilist’ view about free will \u2013 compatibilism being the view that free will is compatible with determinism.<\/em> \u00a0\u2018<\/p>\n

\u2018Amongst social sciences and humanities, philosophy showed the second-lowest representation of women (worst was music composition) and far and away the strongest belief that success requires innate brilliance. There’s a similar pattern in the sciences, where maths and physics have the strongest belief that success requires innate brilliance and amongst the lowest representation of women<\/em>.’<\/p>\n

Helen Beebee<\/a> \u00a0is \u00a0the Principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project, \u2018The age of metaphysical revolution: David Lewis and his place in the history of analytic philosophy’, \u00a0one of the co-editors of \u00a0Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and \u00a0<\/em>an associate editor of the \u00a0Journal of the American Philosophical Association<\/em>; she is also on \u00a0the editorial boards of \u00a0Hume Studies<\/em> \u00a0and the \u00a0Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>. She is currently President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and President Elect of the Aristotelian Society, and co-chair (with Jenny Saul) of the BPA\/Society for Women in Philosophy (UK) Committee for Women in Philosophy. She has an interest in the under-representation of women in philosophy (women make up about 25% of permanent academic staff in the UK). With Jenny Saul she wrote a report on behalf of the British Philosophical Association and the Society for Women in Philosophy UK in 2011. Here she discusses Hume on causation, whether Hume creates or destroys systems, whether it would be rational to drop the subject of metaphysics of causation, how any theory of causation has to fit in with all the other metaphysical pieces, whether anything holds the universe together, free will, and the issue of why there are so few women in philosophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helen Beebee is appearing at the festival this weekend. Read her new interview with 3:AM here. 2018 Festival Programme Sat 22nd September Sun 23rd September We’ve already highlighted some of the philosophers at the event who we’ve interviewed at 3:AM here. \u2018The interpretation I prefer \u2013 call it the \u2018projectivist’ interpretation \u2013 is just as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94088,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94085\/revisions\/94088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}