Events/Media/Podcasts

Here you can find details of past and upcoming events, including podcasts

See HERE to hear about my book Identifying Future-Proof Science at the Durham Book Festival 2021
Presentation on 28th September 2021
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TALK AND Q&A

‘Are enough high risk, high reward space science projects/missions being funded?‘

Part of the CHESS centre’s ‘Philosophical Issues in Space Science Seminar Series‘, Durham, UK

23rd February 2021

See the talk here.

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Science, Truth, and Astrobiology

Podcast conducted by the UK Centre for Astrobiology, January 2020

Oxford Weekend School, 2021 (postponed)

‘Identifying Future-Proof Science’

…with Philip Goff, author of Galileo’s Error.

January 2020: Articles on extra-terrestrial life in the Metro, Space.com, Phys.org, Live Science, and The Print (India).

The Gordon Brown Memorial Lecture at The Lit and Phil, Newcastle

‘Which Scientific Ideas Will Last Forever?’

Thursday 19th September 2019, 6pm

Public lecture in Newcastle, as part of British Science Week 2019

‘Identifying Future-Proof Science’

Saturday 16th March 2019, 11am

Venue : Green Room, 4th Floor, Commercial Union House, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

Interview with Premise Podcast: 20th August 2019

On the relationship between science and philosophy.

Oxford Weekend School : 24-25 November 2018

Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science

See here for futher details about the Weekend School.

First talk: ‘What is scientific realism anyway?’
Second talk: ‘Tackling two historical challenges’
Panel discussion Q&A, with Prof. Timothy D. Lyons

Oxford Weekend School: 9-10 January 2016

The Inconsistency of Science

See here for further details about the Weekend School.

Lecture 1: ‘Can Inconsistent Science be Trusted?’
Lecture 2: ‘Is Science Logical?’
Panel discussion Q&A with Dr Christian Strasser and Dr Dunja Seselja