Conference Program
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June 20 – Wednesday
08:30-09:50 Registration (G127)
10:00-10:15 Conference Opening
10:15-11:15 Vincenzo Crupi: Rationality and Reasoning Research: A Guide for the Perplexed (Keynote lecture)
Chair: Lilia Gurova (G127)
11:15-13:30 Lunch break
A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Jaana Eigi | B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G140) Chair: Özlem Yılmaz | C: Philosophy of Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (G236) Chair: Miloš Kosterec | |
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| 13:30-14:00 | Gustavo Cevolani: Probability, truthlikeness, and two paradoxes of rational belief | María Ferreira Ruiz & Mariana Córdoba: Biological information – what was the problem again? | Nina A. Atanasova: Virtual Morris Water Maze: The Independent Life of an Experimental System |
| 14:00-14:30 | Borut Trpin: A Problem for Jeffrey Conditionalizers | Atoosa Kasirzadeh: The explanatory role of cellular automata models in biology | Blazej Skrzypulec: Nonclassical Mereology of Odours |
14:30-15:00 Coffee break (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)
A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Lilia Gurova | D: Philosophy of Social Sciences (G140) Chair: Juraj Halas | |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Maria Panagiotatou: ‘Local realism’ and the misconceptions about scientific realism | Magdalena Małecka: The normative theory of decision making in economics. A philosophical evaluation. |
| 15:30-16:00 | Ladislav Kvasz: Instrumental Realism | Monika Foltyn-Zarychta: Valuing non-market goods for intergenerational investments – explicit moral judgements in willingness to pay and willingness to accept compensation |
16:00-16:30 Coffee break (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)
A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Daniel Kostić | E: History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (G140) Chair: Daniela Glavaničová | |
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| 16:30-17:00 | Demetris Portides: Abstraction in Scientific Modeling | Hakob Barseghyan, Gregory Rupik & Patrick Fraser: Re-integrating HPS: Scientonomy as a Missing Link |
| 17:00-17:30 | Martin Zach: Scientific representation: Resituating the similarity account | Eden Smith: Examining the Structured Uses of Concepts as Tools: Converging Insights |
17:30-19:30 Open Air Reception (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)
June 21 – Thursday
09:30-10:30 Barbara Osimani: Games in Science: Reliability, Reproducibility, and Reputation (Keynote lecture)
Chair: Lukáš Bielik (G127)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)
B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G127) Chair: Juraj Halas | C: Philosophy of Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (G140) Chair: Nina A. Atanasova | E: History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (G236) Chair: Daniela Glavaničová | |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Cristian Ariel López & Manuel Herrera Aros: Getting physical possibility straight: what makes an event physically possible? | Mario Günther: Interventionist Mental Causation and the Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience | Jaana Eigi: Philosophy of Science and Inductive Risk |
| 11:30-12:00 | Manuel Herrera Aros: Physical Causation in General Relativity | Marek Pokropski: Phenomenology and multilevel mechanistic explanations in cognitive sciences | Francesca Biagioli & Flavia Padovani: From Mathematical to Physical Coordination and Back. Why Mathematical Coordination Can Be More Entangled than it Looks Like. |
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Borut Trpin | B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G140) Chair: Lilia Gurova | A: General Philosophy of Science (G236) Chair: Miloš Kosterec | |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Luca Tambolo: What, if anything, does counterfactual history teach us about the contingency of science? | Özlem Yılmaz: What is ‘Individual Plant’? | Vladimir Drekalović: About the (im)perfection of the best mathematical explanations in science - the cicada case versus the Königsberg bridge case |
| 14:30-15:00 | Matthew Baxendale: Levels of Organization in Scientific Practice: Epistemic Tools for System Building | Guglielmo Militello: Functional Integration in the Endosymbiotic Origin of Mitochondria | Mihail – Petrişor Ivan: Poincaré’s one conventionalism |
15:00-15:30 Coffee break (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)
A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Duško Prelević | B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G140) Chair: Manuel Herrera Aros | |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Daniel Kostić: Minimal structure explanations, scientific understanding and explanatory depth | Sebastian Fortin & Jesús Alberto Jaimes Arriaga: The problem of the 3N dimensions in Quantum Mechanics: a chemical approach |
| 16:00-16:30 | Richard David-Rus: Defending non-explanatory understanding: the case of possible explanations | Alfio Zambon & Fiorela Alassia: About the limits of the chemical periodic system |
16:30-18:30 EENPS meeting (G127)
June 22 – Friday
A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Richard David-Rus | D: Philosophy of Social Sciences (G140) Chair: Monika Foltyn-Zarychta | E: History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (G241) Chair: Eden Smith | |
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| 09:30-10:00 | Stefan Petkov: In defence of veridicality, pragmatic truth and scientific understanding | Akos Sivado: Thinking through Kinds: the Ontological Turn meets Interpretive Social Science | Michele Luchetti: Constituting frequency changes in genetic populations via approximation and stability: Understanding the role of the Hardy-Weinberg principle through its epistemic history |
| 10:00-10:30 | Duško Prelević: Kuhn's Incommensurability Thesis: Good Examples Still to Be Found | Mariusz Maziarz: The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of causal inferences in economics | Mariana Córdoba & María Ferreira Ruiz: When science becomes a problem. Identity, biology and politics |
| 10:30-11:00 | Radim Chvaja: Memetics as Pseudoscience | Elena Sinelnikova: Philosophy of Science in Russia: the St. Petersburg Philosophical Society (1897-1923) |
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G127) Chair: Martin Zach | A: General Philosophy of Science (G140) Chair: Lukáš Bielik | |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Vlasta Sikimic: Argumentative structures in biology: a study of pathogen discoveries | Kertész Gergely: Doubting the argument from constraining effects against causal closure |
| 12:00-12:30 | Damian Luty: Non-individuals and Structural Reconceptualization of Objects in Spacetime Structuralism | Anton Donchev & Mila Marinova: The Influence of Prior Probabilities on Judgments about Explanatory Power |
12:30 Conference Closing (G127)