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| Wednesday, September 23 | |||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Pre-Event by the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS): Normative Social Science After the Great Recession | Pre-Event by the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable: Recent Trends in the Philosophy of Social Science | Pre-Event by the Philosophy of Mathematics Association (PMA): The Problem of Applicability is not a Problem | |||
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| 09:00-12:00 | C. Herfeld: Two ways in which economics has been normative T. Kwarcinski: Well-being in Post-crisis Economics [...] J. A. Noguera: On the normative uses of social science J. Reiss: Confirmation Meets Social Epistemology: A Theory of Inferential Judgement |
J. Bohman: Republicanism Then and Now P. A. Roth: Reviving the Philosophy of History S. Turner: Normativity and Social Science |
O. Bueno: How to Dissolve the Problem of the Application of Mathematics E. Landry: Mathematical Structuralism and Mathematical Applicability Ø. Linnebo: Mathematics and Inference to the Best Explanation |
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| 11:00-14:00 | Registration, foyer |
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| Opening, room 5D | |||||
| 14:00-14:30 | S. Hartmann & G. Schurz | ||||
| Springer Lecture, room 5D (Chair: S. Hartmann) | |||||
| 14:30-16:00 | C. Bicchieri: Trendsetters and Social Change | ||||
| 16:00-16:30 | Refreshments, foyer, room 52 and canteen | ||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Symposium: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? (Chair: I. Votsis) | Symposium: Measure Sensitivity in the Study of Reasoning and Cognition (Chair: D. Atkinson) | General Philosophy of Science I (Chair: J. D. Trout) | Philosophy of the Natural Sciences I (Chair: A. Bartels) | Philosophy of the Life Sciences I (Chair: M. I. Kaiser) | |
| 16:30-17:00 | A. Chakravartty: Case Studies and Selective Realism D. W. Harker: Does Realism Become More Reasonable as Theories Become More Successful? T. D. Lyons: The Scientific Realism Debate in the Year 2015: A New Era of Realist Criteria and Non-Realist Historical Challenges D. Peters: Selective Realism: Theory Choice or Theory Synthesis? P. Vickers: Understanding the Selective Realist Defence against the PMI |
P. Brössel: Criteria for the Deciding between Confirmation Measures G. Cevolani: Measure Sensitivity in Verisimilitude Theory V. Crupi: Shannon and Beyond: Generalized Entropies and Rational Information Search M. Schippers: Coherentism, Pluralism and Measure Sensitivity J. Sprenger: Probabilistic Explications of Causal Strength |
C. Held: What is a ceteris paribus law? | A. Sus: The Equivalence Principle and Dynamical Explanations | A. Love: Building integrated explanatory models of complex biological phenomena |
| 17:00-17:30 | R. Nyrup: Empirical Problems for Explanationism | A. Wilson: Naturalising Recombination | A.-S. Barwich & K. Bschir: Reality as a relational property: the history of G-protein coupled receptors | ||
| 17:30-18:00 | S. Schindler: Theoretical Fertility McMullin-Style | A. Vassallo: On the notion of a-spatiotemporal beables in quantum gravity, or: Can we dispense with space and time as fundamental categories? | B. Osimani: Causality in pharmacology: Conceptual analysis for a changing landscape | ||
| 18:00-18:30 | D. Seselja: Is interaction conducive to scientific objectivity? | F.A. Muller & K. McKenzie: Parts, Wholes and Potentials | C. Pence: Charles Darwin and Sir John F. W. Herschel: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology | ||
| 18:45-20:00 | Reception, Oeconomicum (building 24.31) | ||||
| Thursday, September 24 | |||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| General Philosophy of Science II (Chair: C. Held) | Formal Approaches to Philosophy of Science I (Chair: T. Kuipers) | Symposium: Non-Causal Aspects of Scientific Explanation (Chair: A. Sus) | Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences I (Chair: D. Hommen) | Symposium: Approaches in Philosophy of Science in Practice (Chair: A. Christian) | |
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| 09:30-10:00 | C. Hoefer: Scientific Realism and Fundamental Physics | B. Autzen: Significance testing, P-values and the principle of total evidence | A. Bokulich: On the Supposed Incompatibility of Causal and Non-Causal Explanations M. Frisch & A. Reutlinger: A Counterfactual Account of Non-Causal and Causal Explanations P. Hunemann: Varieties of Structural Explanations and the Notions of Explanatory Pluralism I. L. S. Jansson & J. Saatsi: Explanatory Abstraction in a Counterfactual Framework |
A. Bueter: Psychiatric Classification between Science and Practice | M. Boumans: Symposium on Approaches in Philosophy of Science in Practice C. Herfeld: An Argument for Local Critique in Philosophy of the Social Sciences: The Case of Rational Choice Theory M. Bertolaso & R. Campaner: Modeling Multi-level Disorders: Overcoming the Mechanistic-systemic Dichotomy L. Camprubi: Science in the Flesh: The Epistemological Role of Bodily Sensations and Operations in 20th Century Oceanography J. de Swart: Making Sense of Theoretical Practices: Scripts, Scruples, and the Mass of the Universe |
| 10:00-10:30 | R. Northcott: Approximate truth and scientific realism | D. Atkinson & J. Peijnenburg: A Measure for Partial Knowledge | J. van Den Herik: Getting Real About Words | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | F. Dizadji-Bahmani: Who is afraid of multiple realisability? | E. Cresto, M. D. Corral, D. Tajer, J. Nascimbene, & A. Cassini: Confirmational Holism and Theory Choice: Arrow meets Duhem | L. Gurova: Are causal accounts of explanation always useful? In the case of personality trait explanation they are probably not | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | F. Pero & E. Castellani & T. Knuuttila: Representation, models and structure: a reconceptualization | R. Hauswald: A General Model of Diversity in Science | S. Kornmesser: A Frame-Based Approach for Operationalized Concepts | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Poster Session, room 34 | ||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break | ||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Symposium: Life as Process: Reconceptualizing the Organism (Chair: M. I. Kaiser) | Symposium: Levels, Computation, and Causation in Cognitive Neuroscience (Chair: A. Gebharter) | Philosophy of the Natural Sciences II (Chair: A. Wilson) | Historical, Social and Cultural Studies of Science I (Chair: V. Kindi) | General philosophy of science III (Chair: R. D. Rus) | |
| 13:00-13:30 | J. Dupre: Introduction A. S. Meincke: Metabolic Identity: Approaches to the Particularity of Life from a Processual Perspective S. Guttinger: A Process-Based Understanding of Biological Boundaries D. J. Nicholson: Reconceptualizing the Organism: From Complex Machine to Flowing Stream |
J. Harbecke: Level Distinctions and Methods for Constitutive Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience O. Shagrir: Computations, Mechanisms, and the Role of the Environment V. Hoffmann-Kolss: Causal Relations in Mechanistic Explanations M. Milkowski: The False Dichotomy between Causal Realization and Semantic Computation |
A. Woody: Reaction Mechanisms in Chemistry: A Comparison Case for Accounts of Scientific Explanation | A. Leuschner: Social Exclusion despite Methodological Criteria: On Biases in Scientific Quality Evaluation | L. Desautels & G. Ramsey: Causal-possibility explanations |
| 13:30-14:00 | A. Bartels: A dispositionalist theory of laws-without dispositions | A. Basoukos: Self-Evidence in Scientific Practice | J. Z. Bonilla: Scientific realism as a pragmatic attitude: a deflationist account | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | B. Feintzeig: Unitary Inequivalence in Classical Systems | A. Mets: Measurement theory from the point of view of practical realism: On the example of the periodic table of chemical elements | J. R. Brown: Mathematical Evidence: Pure and Applied | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | C. Werndl & R. Frigg: Reconceptualising Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics and Characterizing its Existence | D. Ludwig: Local Ontologies and the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge | J. Stegenga: Absolute Measures of Effectiveness | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Refreshments, foyer, room 52 and canteen | ||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Philosophy of the Life Sciences II (Chair: A. Love) | Symposium: Social Norms Across Disciplines (Chair: A. Christian) | Symposium: Émilie Du Châtelet's Institutions de Physique (Chair: N. Retzlaff) | General Philosophy of Science IV (Chair: J. Kuorikoski) | Formal Approaches to Philosophy of Science II (Chair: G. Schurz) | |
| 15:30-16:00 | D. Teira, C. Saborido, & M. Gonzalez-Moreno: Disease-mongering through clinical trials | M. Colombo: Norm Compliance and Humeanism. A Neurocomputational Account K. Hoff: Insult versus Accident: Caste Culture and the Efficiency of Coordination C. Lisciandra: Modelling Norms |
J. Elder: Émilie du Châtelet on Newtonian Attraction A. M. Solomon: Du Châtelet's Philosophy of Space and Time J. A. Hanson: Du Châtelet on the Law of Continuity J. Steeger: PSR and the Problem of Force: The Metaphysical Grounding of Physics in Du Châtelet and Wolff A. Wells: Substance and Change in the Institutions de Physique |
C. Menke: In defense of historical theories of confirmation | M. M. Bentzen: Interventions at the core of scientific reasoning: On the de-idealizing and re-idealizing formal logic |
| 16:00-16:30 | N. Atanasova: Convergent Perspectivism | D. Tulodziecki: From zymes to germs: discarding the realist/antirealist framework | M. Beirlaen & B. Leuridan: A logic for the discovery of causal regularities | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | G. Pontarotti: Extended inheritance as persisting extended organization | S. Chow: The Gap Between Psychological Explanation and Mechanistic Explanation | P. Dziurosz-Serafinowicz: A Resiliency-Based Approach to Chance | ||
| 17:00-17:30 | H. Desmond: Natural selection: deriving causality from equilibrium | F. Padovani: Measurements, coordination, and the problem of representation of physical quantities | P. Thorn: On the preference for more specific reference classes | ||
| De Gruyter Lecture, room 5D (Chair: J.-W. Romeijn) | |||||
| 17:40-19:10 | I. Douven: Measuring Graded Membership: The Case of Color | ||||
| 19:45-22:00 | Conference Dinner, Brauerei Zum Schlüssel, Bolkerstraße 41-47 | ||||
| Friday, September 25 | |||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Symposium: Newman's Objection to Structural Realism: New Approaches (Chair: C. J. Feldbacher) | Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences II (Chair: L. Gurova) | Symposium: How is Reduction achieved? (Chair: V. Hoffmann-Kolss) | Philosophy of the Natural Sciences III (Chair: A. Bartels) | Historical, social and cultural studies of science II (Chair: A. Basoukos) | |
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| 09:30-10:00 | O. Bueno: Overcoming Newman's Objection J. Ladyman: The Newman Problem and Ontic Structural Realism S. Lutz: Newman's Objection is Dead, Long Live Newman's Objection! T. Meier: A Carnapian Answer to Newman T. Pashby: Russell's Response to Newman: Space-Time Structuralism |
M. Werning & S. Cheng: Is Episodic Memory a Natural Kind? | P. Fazekas: Reductive Explanation and Hypothetical Identities R. Hendry: Mechanisms and Reduction in Chemistry L. M. Andersen: Mechanisms and Reduction in Psychiatry - An Interventionist Perspective U. Baysan: "Nothing-over-and-above-ness" without Reduction G. Kertész: Autonomy, Multiple Realization and the Way Reduction is Done |
D. Romano & G. Bacciagaluppi: Classical Limit of a (Macroscopic) Particle in a Box: A suggested Solution to Einstein's Objection to Bohm's Theory (CANCELLED) | F. Dewulf: The Objectivity of the Humanities: Hempel, Carnap and the Case of Lucien Febvre |
| 10:00-10:30 | S. B. Fink: Scientific Competition and Its Threat to a Neuroscience of Consciousness | F. Boge: On the Epistemic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | J. Eigi: On the Role of Political Science Research in Philosophy of Science | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | S. Z. Caiani: On the Plurality of Explanations in the Cognitive Sciences | C. D. McCoy: Cosmological Probabilities: General Relativity and Statistical Mechanics Writ Large | W. van der Deijl: Well-being intuitionism and conceptual adequacy in well-being science | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | U. Feest: What are phenomena in the cognitive and behavioral sciences? | F. Azhar: Typicality in multiverse cosmology | M. van Strien: The law of continuity, determinateness, and the mathematizability of nature: Boscovich and his contemporaries | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Poster Session, room 34 | ||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break | ||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Symposium: Science within Metaphysics and Metaphysics within Science [...] (Chair: J. Saatsi) | General Philosophy of Science V (Chair: R. Scholl) | Symposium: Imprecise Probabilities (Chair: T. Müller) | Philosophy of the Natural Sciences IV (Chair: I. Votsis) | Philosophy of the Life Sciences III (Chair: U. Stegmann) | |
| 13:00-13:30 | H. Beebee: Metaphysics and Science: Rationalism and Empiricism S. French: Building Bridges with the Right Tools: Modality and the Standard Model A. Guay & T. Pradeu: Situating Metaphysics of Science: Back to Square One A. Ney: Are the Questions of Metaphysics More Fundamental than Those of Science? |
D. Kostic: Non-causal Features of Topological Explanations: Expending the Notions of Interventions, Counterfactual Dependencies and Difference-makers | J. Williamson: The Epistemological Significance of Imprecise Probability J. Carr: What do (Im)Precise Credences Represent? S. Bradley & G. Wheeler: Reply to Carr and Williamson J. Carr & J. Williamson: Carr and Williamson's Response |
J. B. Pitts: Einstein's Physical Strategy, Energy Conservation, Symmetries and Stability | J. Bzovy: Species Concepts as Tools |
| 13:30-14:00 | I. Niiniluoto: Abduction and cultural evolution | J. Fraser: Renormalization and Relativity | L. Kästner & B. Krickel: Squaring the Circle? Assessing Mechanistic Constitution With Interventions | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | M. Abrams: Causal probability and scientific practice | J. Bain: What Explains the Spin-Statistics Connection? | M. Baumgartner & L. Casini: Establishing Constitutional Relations, in Theory and in Practice | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | M. I. Kaiser: On the Limits of Causal Modeling: Spatially-Structurally Complex Phenomena | L. Vervoort & Y. Gingras: Macroscopic oil droplets mimicking quantum behavior: How far can we push an analogy? | R. Morris: Against the grain: an investigative model for the ancestral health movement | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Refreshments, foyer, room 52 and canteen | ||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Formal Approaches to Philosophy of Science III (Chair: P. Thorn) | General Philosophy of Science VI (Chair: L. Desautels) | Symposium: Situated Cognition and Scientific Practice (Chair: M. Werning) | Symposium: Physics and the Nature of Computation (Chair: K. Thebault) | Historical, Social and Cultural Studies in Philosophy of Science III (Chair: W. van der Deijl) | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Q. Harr: Relative Modalities and Chance | G. Hirsch Hadorn: On a Rationale for Cognitive Values | A. Toon: Empiricism for Cyborgs M. MacLead & N. Neressian: Building Computational Representations for Scientific Discovery: A Distributed Cognition Account S. Leonelli: Distributed Reasoning in Data-Centric Science A. Gelfert: Hardwig's Dilemma and a Hidden Individualism in Social Theories of Scientific Knowledge (CANCELLED) O. Palermos: Active Externalism, Virtue Reliabilism and Scientific Knowledge |
C. Timpson & O. Maroney: Is Information Physical? V. Kendon & C. Horsman: When does a Physical System Compute? A. Duwell: The Mechanistic View of Computation and Quantum Computers |
R. Scholl: The argument from the good lot: Unconceived alternatives and 19th century bacteriology |
| 16:00-16:30 | R. Heesen: Communism and the Incentive to Share in Science | H. Andersen: The structure of science: From diachronic to a synchronic account | S. Green: Debating causation in the life sciences: A systems perspective on causes and effects of cancer | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | T. Kuipers: Models, postulates, and generalized nomic truth approximation | H. Hasse & J. Lenhard: Measuring the Unmeasurable. Engineering, Mathematics, and the Computer: A New Mixture | T. Reydon: Metaphysics Naturalized? The Case of Classification in the Sciences | ||
| 17:00-17:30 | T. Müller: Thermodynamics vs. statistical mechanics: A matter of logic | I. Votsis: Measuring Unification | T. Uebel: Philosophy in Unified Science: The Bipartite Metatheory Conception (CANCELLED) | ||
| 17:40-19:10 | EPSA General Assembly Meeting, room 5D | ||||
| 19:15-20:15 | EPSA Women's Caucus, room 5E | ||||
| Saturday, September 26 | |||||
| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Symposium: The Tension between a Naturalistic and a Normative Approach to Explanation and Understanding (Chair: J. Díez) | Symposium: Probabilities, Chances and Statistics (Chair: N. Retzlaff) | General Philosophy of Science VII (Chair: J. Z. Bonilla) | Philosophy of the Natural Sciences V (Chair: F. Boge) | Philosophy of the Social Sciences I (Chair: P. Thorn) | |
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| 09:30-10:00 | J. Faye: An Evolutionary and Cognitive Approach to Understanding A. M. Nounou: On Scientific Understanding without Explanation H. de Regt: From Explanation to Understanding: Normativity Lost? P. Ylikoski: Normativity and the Inferential Account of Understanding |
A. P. Dawid: On Individual Risk L. Fenton-Glynn: Unsharp Best System Chances J. Ismael: Against Ontic Chances (CANCELLED) A. Lyon: Counterfactual Probabilities, Chances and Robust Explanations M. Suárez: Propensities, Chances, and Experimental Statistics |
N. Wüthrich: Conceptualizing uncertainty: An assessment of the latest uncertainty framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | R. Dardashti: No Alternatives for What? Non-empirical Evidence in the Case of String Theory | H. Schilgen: What even is explanatory pluralism? (CANCELLED) |
| 10:00-10:30 | O. Lemeire: Causality and natural kinds | M. Redei, Z. Gyenis, & G. Hofer-Szabo: The Borel-Kolmogorov Paradox and conditional expectations | J. van Bouwel: Do mechanism-based explanations make a case for methodological individualism? | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | P. Teller: Pan-Perspectival Realism | S. Friederich: Symmetries and the identity of physical states | K. Thebault, S. Bradley, & A. Reutlinger: Modeling Inequality | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | R. Dawid: The No Miracles Argument without Base Rate Fallacy | V. Lam & C. Wüthrich: Functional emergence of spacetime in quantum gravity | S. Wintein & C. Heilmann: Cooperative game theory, philosophy and the social sciences | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Poster Session, room 34 | ||||
| 12:00-13:30 | Conference Lunch, room 52 & Graduate Student Gathering, room 22 |
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| Room 5D | Room 5E | Room 5F | Room 5G | Room 5H | |
| Symposium: Local vs. Global Approaches to Realism (Chair: L. Fahrbach) | General Philosophy of Science VIII (Chair: R. Dawid) | Symposium: Theory Choice meets Social Choice (Chair: C. J. Feldbacher) | Philosophy of the Natural Sciences VI (Chair: S. Friederich) | Philosophy of the Life Sciences IV (Chair: J. Bzovy) | |
| 13:30-14:00 | P. Dicken: Forget Perrin (CANCELLED) L. Henderson: Should the Debate over Scientific Realism Go Local? S. Psillos: Kinds of Evidence for Realism: Revisiting the Case of Atomism J. Saatsi: A Case for Local Realism |
V. Kindi: Kuhn's Revolutions | S. Okasha: Arrow's Theorem and the Rationality of Scientific Theory Choice M. Morreau: Can there be Neutral Choice Procedures in Science? A. Marcoci & J. Nguyen: On the Rationality of Theory Choice W. Gaertner & N. Wüthrich: Evaluating Competing Theories via a Common Language of Qualitative Verdicts |
M. Dorato: Events, quantum mechanics and the passage of time | T. Baetu: Extrapolation in Basic Research (CANCELLED) |
| 14:00-14:30 | P. Illari: How are mechanistic explanations understood? | M. Egg: Do We Need a Primitive Ontology to Make Quantum Mechanics Empirically Coherent? | U. Stegmann: Model organisms and explanation | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | G. Masterton, F. Zenker, & P. Gärdenfors: From Classical Mechanics, to Special Relativity Theory, and Quantum Mechanics - Or: Why structural realists would profit from studying structural continuity by means of conceptual spaces | J. Kuorikoski: There are no mathematical explanations | M. Poznic: Modeling Organs with Chips: Design and Representation as Modeling Relations | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | M. Kuhlmann: Explaining Complex Dynamics by Structural Mechanisms | G. Sengers: Presentism meets Black Holes again | M. Fagan: Explanation, unification, and mechanisms | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Refreshments, foyer, room 52 and canteen | ||||
| Plenary Lecture, room 5D (Chair: G. Schurz) | |||||
| 16:00-17:30 | M. Weber: Causality in Dynamical Biological Mechanisms | ||||
| 17:30-18:00 | Closing, room 5D | ||||
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