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Program
Please find the program of the conference here.
An overview of the program can be downloaded here (updated: 2015-09-22): Program Overview
The book of abstracts can be downloaded here (updated: 2015-09-22): Book of Abstracts
The book of extended abstracts can be downloaded here (updated: 2015-09-22): Book of Extended Abstracts
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Wednesday, September 23 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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Pre-Event by the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS): Normative Social Science After the Great Recession |
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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 |
| 09:00-12:00 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 11:00-14:00 |
Registration, foyer
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Opening, room 5D |
| 14:00-14:30 |
S. Hartmann & G. Schurz |
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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 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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) |
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Thursday, September 24 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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) |
| 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 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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 |
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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 |
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Friday, September 25 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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) |
| 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 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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 |
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Saturday, September 26 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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) |
| 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
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Graduate Student Gathering, room 22 |
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Room 5D |
Room 5E |
Room 5F |
Room 5G |
Room 5H |
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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 |
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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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