Livestream Series: Chemistry Speaker: Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences) Talk: "The Computational History of Chemistry and the Questions it Triggers on the Philosophy of Chemistry"   Abstract The increasing amount of data and computing power are turning computational approaches into an integral part of historians’ tools. Beyond providing novel ways… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Guillermo Restrepo, “The Computational History of Chemistry and the Questions it Triggers on the Philosophy of Chemistry”

Speaker: Robin Philips (UCLouvain) Title: “Multidimensional composite indicators of wellbeing: applications in economic history" Abstract "Although economists and social scientists have widely contributed to the so-called ‘Beyond GDP’ debate, the view that current measures of economic growth are inadequate to measure well-being and multidimensional indicators, economic history has not been prominent in these debates. Nonetheless,… Continue reading Post-Darwinian Societies Seminar: Robin Philips, “Multidimensional composite indicators of wellbeing: applications in economic history”