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LTT: Ken Aizawa
February 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Title: Hodgkin and Huxley’s Use of Singular Compositional Abduction
Abstract: One of the most significant achievements of Twentieth-Century physiology was Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley’s development of theory of the action potential. Despite the scientific prominence of this theory and the amount of philosophical attention that has been devoted to the Hodgkin-Huxley model, there has been no philosophical attempt to show how Hodgkin and Huxley brought experimental work to bear in support of the theory. (Imagine philosophers of evolutionary biology not reading Darwin’s Origin of Species.)
In this talk, I will do four things: 1) introduce an example of Hodgkin and Huxley’s reasoning, 2) provide a theory of that case, 3) indicate how the theory applies to other cases, and 4) show how the theory might advance the debate over the scientific legitimacy of mental representations.
Can’t make it in-person? This talk will available online with the following Zoom link, found here: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97715133156
This talk will also be available live streamed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.
Details
- Date:
- February 16
- Time:
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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
- Event Categories:
- Lunchtime Talks, Lunchtime Talks 2023-24
Venue
- 1119 Cathedral of Learning