[spsp-members] Ken Aizawa - Friday - Hodgkin and Huxley’s Use of Singular Compositional Abduction

[Center for Phil Sci]

The Center for Philosophy of Science invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talk.  Attend in person, Room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh or visit our live stream on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.

 LTT: Ken Aizaw<https://www.researchwithrutgers.com/en/persons/kenneth-aizawa>
Friday, 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: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97715133156


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