Publications and Presentations
Publications
Whyte, Jennifer L. “Mathematical SETIbacks: Open Texture in Mathematics as a new challenge for Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2024.2426194. [Preprint] [Final]
Conference Presentations
“Waismann Says Only Fools Rush In: Open Texture as a Framework for Practice-Driven Conceptual Engineering” at the Open Texture and Semantics Workshop at the Center for Philosophy of Science, 2024
“Mathematical SETIbacks: Open Texture in Mathematics as a New Problem for Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” at the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting 2022 and Canadian Philosophical Association meeting 2023
“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)