Publications and Presentations

 
 

Publications

 

Whyte, Jennifer L. “The Roots of the Silver Tree: Boyle, Alchemy, and Teleology” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. Volume 85, February 2021, Pages 185-191. [Preprint] [Final]

 

Conference Presentations

 

“Mathematical SETIbacks: Open Texture in Mathematics as a New Problem for Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” at the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting 2022

“Lotto 1877: Boltzmann, Lakatos, and Thought Experiments” at the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2022 and Lakatos @100 at the London School of Economics

Reinventing the Wheel: Paradox, Thought Experiment, and the Rota Aristotelica” at the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, 2021 (poster)

Iron Chef Stagira: Alchemy in Aristotle’s Meteorology IV” at CogWeirdo Workshop, 2021

A Turn at the Wheel: The Three Lives of the Rota Aristotelica” at the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2021

The Roots of the Silver Tree: Boyle, Alchemy, and Teleology” at the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2019 (winner of the Hadden Prize for best Graduate Student presentation)

The Light Fantastical: What Thought Experiments show us about Mathematical Representation” at the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik Philosophy of Science Conference, 2018. (invited)