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Thursday, September 7th
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9:00-11:00
Room A
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Symposium: New Directions for Studying Success and Failure in Science
C. Kenneth Waters (chair)
Melinda Bonnie Fagan: Success and Failure Among the Stem Cells: Connecting Biology and Philosophy
Steve Elliott: An Account of Success in Science as the Attainment of Epistemic Aims
Flavia Fabris: The Integrative Role of Scientific Practices: The Case of Heat-Shock
C. Kenneth Waters: Commentary and Contextualization
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9:00-11:00
Room B
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Contrib. Papers: Realism
Ilya Kasavin (chair)
Alberto Cordero: Demythifying Scientific Realism
Michela Massimi: Perspectival Modeling, Pluralism, and the Quest for Realism
Vassilios Karakostas & Elias Zafiris: On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Modern Physics: A Realist-Perspectivist View
João Luís Cordovil: OSR and the Question of Fundamentalism
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9:00-11:00
Room C
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Contrib. Papers: Quantum Mechanics 1
Irena Doicescu (chair)
Peter Vickers: The Sommerfeld Miracle
Pablo Acuña: Inertial Trajectories in de Broglie-Bohm Quantum Theory: An Unexpected Problem
Marie Gueguen: Implementing Indiscernibility in Quantum Mechanics
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9:00-11:00
Room D
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Contrib. Papers: Prediction in the Social Sciences
Mary Morgan (chair)
Alkistis Elliott-Graves: Re-Examining the Value of Qualitative Predictions for Problem-based Science
Rui Silva: Extrapolation and Expert Judgment in the Human Sciences
Aki Lehtinen: Robustness Arguments in Meta-Regression
Meinard Kuhlmann: Explanation and Prediction in Econophysics
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9:00-11:00
Room E
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Symposium: Interpreting Physical Theories
Samuel Fletcher (chair)
Eleanor Knox: Interpreting Spacetime Theories: Questions of Representation
Neil Dewar: Little Local Difficulties
Benjamin Feintzeig: Interpretation, Quantized
Erik Curiel: Semantics: Epistemology, Yes; Ontology, No
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9:00-11:00
Room F
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Contrib. Papers: Medicine and Health
Raffaella Campaner (chair)
Juliette Ferry: A Response to Anti-Naturalism in the Phenomenology of Medicine
Saana Jukola: On Contested Science and the Ideals of Good Evidence - The Case of Nutrition Research
Roland Poellinger: Confirmation by Analogy in Pharmacology
Sarah Wieten & Donal Khosrowi: Putting Rigour Back Into Pragmatic Trials
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11:00-11:30
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Refreshments (Forum Street)
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11:30-13:00
Room A
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Contrib. Papers: Understanding
Richard David-Rus (chair)
Mark Newman: Degrees of Scientific Understanding on the Inferential Theory
Henk De Regt & Marthe Smedinga: Metaphors as Tools for Understanding: A Comparative Analysis of Expert and Public Understanding of Science
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11:30-13:00
Room B
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Contrib. Papers: Reasoning I
Idit Chikurel (chair)
Ori Belkind: Newtonian Induction and Hume's Critique of Inductive Inferences
Samuel Schindler: Explanatory Liberalism and Structural Necessitation
Klodian Coko: The Structure and Epistemological Implications of Multiple Determination in Empirical Science
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11:30-13:00
Room C
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Contrib. Papers: Explanation and experiment
Marion Boulicault (chair)
Anna-Mari Rusanen & Otto Lappi: On the Problem of Relevance: The Dilemma of Jiggling and Whiggling
Matthias Michel: Methodological Artefacts in Consciousness science
Julia Pfeiff: A Model of Constitutive Psychological Explanation
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11:30-13:00
Room D
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Contrib. Papers: Evidence
Anton Donchev (chair)
Jürgen Landes: Variety of Evidence
Henrik Roeland Visser: Non-Epistemic Values and Policy Relevance in Macroeconomics
Mathieu Beirlaen: A Qualitative Model for Ampliative Scientific Inference
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11:30-13:00
Room E
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Contrib. Papers: Perception
Dragana Bozin (chair)
Nina L. Poth: From Perception to Concepts: Bayesian Inference as an Alternative to Voronoi Categorisation in Conceptual Spaces
Błażej Skrzypulec: Vision, Olfaction, and the Unity of Senses
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch (Forum Street)
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13:00-14:00
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Special Lunch Session: Writing ERC Grants (Room B)
This informal session will give advice on how to successfully apply for ERC grants (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced). Three recipients of ERC grants -- John Dupre (Exeter), Sabina Leonelli (Exeter) and Michela Massimi (Edinburgh) -- and (from the ERC itself) Angela Liberatore, will answer questions relating to these grants and the application process.
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14:00-14:30
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Posters (Forum Street)
See the list of posters at the end of the programme
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14:30-16:30
Room A
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Symposium: Epistemic Strategies for the Integration of Big Data
Sabina Leonelli (chair)
Sabina Leonelli & Niccolò Tempini: Where Health and Environment Meet: Geolocation as Invariance Strategy for Integrating Diverse Data Sources
Andrea I. Woody & Katharine Moore Tibbetts: Smart Search through Complex Landscapes
Brendan Clarke, Phyllis Illari & Federica Russo: Datified Evidence in Theory and in Clinical Practice
Barbara Osimani: Exact Replication or Varied Evidence? Reliability, Robustness and the Reproducibility Problem
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14:30-16:30
Room B
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Contrib. Papers: Preferences and Evolution
Jean Baccelli (chair)
Erik Angner: What Preferences Really Are
Don Ross & Glenn Harrison: The Empirical Adequacy of Cumulative Prospect Theory and its Implications for Normative Assessment
Bengt Autzen: The Evolutionary Explanation of What? A Closer Look at Adaptationist Explanations of Risk Preferences
Stefan Heidl: How Are Standard and Ecological Rationality Related?
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14:30-16:30
Room C
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Contrib. Papers: Methodology of Experimentation
Klodian Coko (chair)
Samuel Fletcher: Stopping Rules as Experimental Design
Kareem Khalifa, Jared Millson & Mark Risjord: Inference, Explanation, and the Improbable in Experimental Economics
Maria Jimenez-Buedo: Reactivity: What Kind of Confound?
María Caamaño: The Semantic-Pragmatic Side of Framing Effects
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14:30-16:30
Room D
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Symposium: The Computational Mind
Marcin Milkowski (chair)
Mark Sprevak: Critically Assessing Predictive Coding
Matteo Colombo: Bayesian Brains and the Nativism Debate
Nico Orlandi: Perception Without (Classical) Computation
Oron Shagrir & Lotem Elber-Dorozko: Computation and Mechanism in Cognitive Neuroscience
Gualtiero Piccinini & J. Brendan Ritchie: A Dilemma for the Autonomy of Computational Psychology
All speakers – Roundtable with Q&A
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14:30-16:30
Room E
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Contrib. Papers: Quantum Mechanics 2
James Read (chair)
Dustin Lazarovici: Against Fields
Douglas Earl: The Significance of Non-Linearity in Interacting Quantum Field Theories: Adopting an ‘Engineering’ Perspective in the Contexts of Scientific Realism and Naturalized Metaphysics
Cristian López & Hernán Accorinti: Roads to the Past: How to Go Backward in Time in Quantum Mechanics
Jonathan Bain: Non-Locality in Intrinsic Topologically Ordered Systems
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14:30-16:30
Room F
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Contrib. Papers: Reasoning II
Dunja Šešelja (chair)
Otavio Bueno: Evidence and Styles of Scientific Reasoning
Jason Konek: On the Alethic Foundations of Imprecise Bayesianism: A Defense of IP Scoring Rules
Jens Harbecke: Two Challenges for a Boolean Approach to Constitutive Inference
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16:30-17:00
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Refreshments (Forum Street)
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17:00-18:00
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Plenary Lecture (Alumni Auditorium)
Philip Kitcher: So ... who is your audience?
Chair: Michela Massimi (Vice-president of EPSA)
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19:30
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Conference Dinner (Great Hall)
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Friday, September 8th
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7:30-9:00
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Women’s Caucus Breakfast (Room B)
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9:00-11:00
Room A
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Contrib. Papers: Gene-level biology
Staffan Müller-Wille (chair)
Rami Koskinen: Multiple Realizability as a Design Hypothesis in Biological Engineering
Marcel Weber: Causal Specificity, Biological Possibility and Non-parity about Genetic Causes
Marie I. Kaiser: ENCODE and the Parthood Question
Ulrich Stegmann: Philosophical Conclusions From Historical Analyses: The Case of Genetic Information
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9:00-11:00
Room B
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Contrib. Papers: Models
Ric Sims (chair)
Fiora Salis: On Predators and Prey. Scientific Models, Fiction and Imagination
Philippe Verreault-Julien: Models and How-Possibly Explanations: A Demarcation Problem
Insa Lawler: How Do Model-Based Explanations Depend on Their Respective Models?
Martin Zach: Against the Direct Fiction View of Scientific Models
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9:00-11:00
Room C
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Symposium: The General and the Particular: Understanding a Fundamental Relation
Martin Carrier & Giora Hon (chair)
Yael Kedar: Roger Bacon (1214/1220–1292) on Universal and Particular Natures: Sources and Influence
Giora Hon: Comparison and the Resulting Discrepancy: The Gap Between the General and the Particular
Cornelis Menke: P < .05: On the Origin of the Standard Level of Significance
Martin Carrier: Capturing the Phenomena: Models, Theories, Data
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9:00-11:00
Room D
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Contrib. Papers: Formal epistemology
Jürgen Landes (chair)
Jonah Schupbach: Isolating the Effects of Coherence
Colin Elliot: Correcting incoherent sets of credences
Reuben Stern and Benjamin Eva: Causal Explanatory Strength
John Wigglesworth: Logical Anti-Exceptionalism and Theoretical Equivalence
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9:00-11:00
Room E
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Symposium: The Science and Philosophy of Institutions
Don Ross (chair)
Pekka Mäkela, Raul Hakli & Sonja Amadae: Institutions as Shared Plans: Practical Reasoning in I and We Modes
N. Emrah Aydinonat & Petri Ylikoski: Does Game Theory Provide a Unified Theory of Institutions?
Francesco Guala: Institutional Kinds and Social Functions
J.P. Smit: Why Institutional Language Has No Ontological Import
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9:00-11:00
Room F
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Symposium: Promoting the Field View of General Relativity: New Insights From Spin-2, Emergent Gravity, and the Dynamical Approach
Niels Linnemann (chair)
James Read: Two Miracles of Relativity: Spacetime in GR and the Dynamical Approach
Tushar Menon: In Search of Lost Spacetime: What Non-Commutative Geometry Can Teach Us About Spacetime
Kian Salimkhani: The Principle of Equivalence, the Spin-2, and the Fundamentality of Spacetime
Manus Visser & Niels Linnemann: Why the Metric Field and Its Dynamics Should Be Emergent
Juliusz Doboszewski: Dynamical Spacetime and Gravitational Energy
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11:00-11:30
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Refreshments (Forum Street)
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11:30-13:00
Room A
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Contrib. Papers: Scientific Change
Anne Sophie Meincke (chair)
Luca Tambolo: Contingency, Counterfactual History, Underdetermination
Adam Koberinski: Theoretical physics in the 1950s: particles, physicists, and field theories
Carl Hoefer & Genoveva Martí: Natural Kind Terms: Challenging the New-Wave Anti-Essentialism and Descriptivism
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11:30-13:00
Room B
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Contrib. Papers: Formal Social Epistemology
Nina Poth (chair)
Jan-Willem Romeijn: Stein’s Paradox and Group Rationality
Felipe Romero & Jan Sprenger: Scientific Self-Correction: The Bayesian Way
Annemarie Borg, Daniel Frey, Dunja Seselja & Christian Strasser: Is Increased Scientific Interaction Epistemically Beneficial? An Argumentative Agent-Based Model Approach
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11:30-13:00
Room C
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Contrib. Papers: Uncertainty
Mathias Frisch (chair)
Karim Bschir & Lydia Braunack-Mayer: Predicting Under Structural Uncertainty: Why Not All Hawkmoths are Ugly
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11:30-13:00
Room D
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Contrib. Papers: Explanation and Reduction in Psychology and Biology
Flavia Fabris (chair)
David Barack: Levels and Layers
Matthew Baxendale: Resisting the Reductionist Retreat
Silvia Ivani: What We (Should) Talk About When We Talk About Fruitfulness
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11:30-13:00
Room E
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Contrib. Papers: Methods and Concepts
Nora Hangel (chair)
Andrea Polonioli: A Plea for Minimally Biased Philosophy
Corrado Matta: The Role of Philosophical Theory in Qualitative Methods Textbooks
Joost Jacob Vecht: Partial Mastery of Mathematics
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch (Forum Street)
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13:00-14:00
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Special Lunch Session: EJPS Editors Meet Authors (Room B)
From 1st July 2017 EJPS has new editors-in-chief: Phyllis Illari (UCL) and Federica Russo (Amsterdam). The editors will present their vision of the journal for the coming years, explain how the refereeing process works, and introduce you to the associate editors and editorial board. They will gladly answer any questions related to the journal policies and procedures and will be most interested in hearing any comments or feedback you might have.
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14:00-14:30
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Posters (Forum Street)
See the list of posters at the end of the programme
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14:30-16:30
Room A
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Symposium: Scientific Realism and Quantum Physics
Juha Saatsi (chair)
Valia Allori: Primitive Ontology and Scientific Realism
Lina Jansson: Explanations on a Pragmatist Interpretation of Quantum Theory: Between Realism and Instrumentalism
Richard Healey: Pragmatist Quantum Realism
Juha Saatsi: Scientific Realism Meets Metaphysics of QM
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14:30-16:30
Room B
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Contrib. Papers: Philosophy of Biology
Min OuYang (chair)
Francesco Suman: The Cultural Assimilation Model: Revisiting the Last Major Transition in Evolution
Javier Suárez: Stability of Traits as the Kind of Stability That Matters: How Holobionts Might Be Units of Selection
Karen Yan & Meng-Li Tsai: Practice-based Paradigms in Biological Sciences: Large-Scale Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of a Case Study on Heart-Rate Variability
Stephan Guttinger: Scientific Metaphysics and the Theory/Practice Dichotomy
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14:30-16:30
Room C
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Contrib. Papers: Values in Science
Kåre Letrud (chair)
Osman Caglar Dede: Heather Douglas’s Account of Values and Evidential Judgments in Toxicological Practice
Torsten Wilholt: Climate Models and Non‐Epistemic Values
Alexander Christian: The Vice of Virtues — Virtue-Based Research Ethics and the Organizational Features of Scientific Institutions
Mariana Córdoba & María Marta Quintana: Personal identity and Science: The Genetic Approach Regarding the Case of the Children Appropriated During the Argentinean Dictatorship 1976-1983
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14:30-16:30
Room D
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Contrib. Papers: Laws and regularities
Karim Bschir (chair)
Umut Baysan: Laws of Nature, Governing, and Truthmaking
Andreas Bartels: Explaining the Modal Force of Natural Laws
Vincent Lam: Metaphysics of Laws and Causation in Dynamical Spacetime
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14:30-16:30
Room E
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Symposium: Human Diversity in Scientific Practice
Ludovica Lorusso & David Ludwig (co-chairs)
Sophia Efstathiou: Personalising RCTs? The Case of AHeFT
Ludovica Lorusso: Race: What Biological Reality?
Magali Bessone: Why Say That Race is Biologically Real?
David Ludwig: Global Philosophy of Human Diversity: The Limits of Contextualism
Maria Kronfeldner: "Time to stop talking about human nature?"
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14:30-16:30
Room F
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Contrib. Papers: Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
Gregor Halfmann (chair)
Jan Potters: Evaluating the Explanatory Power of Special Relativity: The Case of the Velocity-Dependence of Mass
Marco Giovanelli: ‘Physics is a Kind of Metaphysics.’ On Émile Meyerson’s Influence on Einstein’s Late Metaphysical Realism
Laszlo E. Szabo: A Physicalist Account for Meaning and Truth in Physics
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16:30-17:00
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Refreshments (Forum Street)
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17:00-18:00
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Women’s Caucus Lecture (Alumni Auditorium)
Helen Beebee: Women in philosophy of science: where are we, where do we want to be, and how do we get there?
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18:00-19:30
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EPSA General Assembly Meeting (Alumni Auditorium)
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