Programme
Material for GWP.2019
Plenary Speakers
Programme Schedule
| Monday, February 25 | ||||||
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration | |||||
| Opening, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) | ||||||
| 09:00-09:15 | Gerhard Schurz (GWP President) Andreas Hüttemann (Chair of the LOC) |
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| Plenary Lecture, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) (Chair: Andreas Hüttemann) | ||||||
| 09:15-10:45 | Kärin Nickelsen: Interactions and Interdependencies: Philosophy of Science and History of Science as Friends with Benefits (or more) | |||||
| 10:45-11:00 | Refreshments | |||||
| Seminargebäude #106 | ||||||
| Room 22 | Room 23 | Room 24 | Room 25 | Room 26 | Tagungsraum | |
| Symposium: Referencing in the Quantum Domain (Chair: Cord Friebe) | Symposium: Good Concepts (Chair: Joe Dewhurst) | Section: Evolution and Identity (Chair: Thomas Reydon) | Section: Non-Causal Explanation (Chair: Enno Fischer) | Section: Causation and Kinds (Chair: Beate Krickel) | ||
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| 11:00-11:40 | Fred A. Muller and Gijs Leegwater: The Case Against Factorism | David Hommen: Family Resemblances and Essentialism | Anne Sophie Meincke: One or Two? A process perspective on pregnant individuals | Vera Hoffmann-Kolss: Interventionism and Non-Causal Dependence Relations: New work for a theory of supervenience | Florian Fischer and Alexander Gebharter: Dispositions and Causal Bayes Nets | |
| 11:40-12:20 | Tina Wachter: Can Conventionalism Save the Identity of Indiscernibles? | Paul Thorn: Class Selection in Inheritance Inference | Rose Trappes: What Fish is This? Process ontology and biological identity | Daniel Kostic: Non-Causal Explanatory Asymmetries | Yukinori Onishi and Davide Serpico: Is Everything Fine if Natural Kinds are Nodes in Causal Networks? | |
| 12:20-13:00 | Adam Caulton: Effective Reference to Quantum Particles | Henk Zeevat and Corina Strößner: Natural Concepts in a Brain-Based Feature System | Maria Kronfeldner: Digging the Cannels: On how to separate nature and culture | Hugh Desmond: Shades of Grey: Granularity, pragmatics, and non-causal explanation TALK CANCELLED |
Philipp Haueis: Towards a Generalized Patchwork Approach of Scientific Concepts | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break | |||||
| Seminargebäude #106 | ||||||
| Room 22 | Room 23 | Room 24 | Room 25 | Room 26 | Tagungsraum | |
| Section: Explanation and Evolution (Chair: Michael Koerner) | Section: Quantum Mechanics (Chair: Kian Salimkhani) | Section: Realism (Chair: Olivier Sartenaer) | Section: Psychology (Chair: Hajo Greif) | Section: Causation (Chair: Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla) | Biomedicine (Chair: Anne Sophie Meincke) | |
| 14:30-15:10 | Antonio Danese: Exaptation: From Darwin’s “botany” to evolutionary psychology | Andrea Oldofredi: Particle Identification through Time of Flight Measurements: Testing Bell’s hypothesis on position observations in quantum physics | Mark Fischer: Pluralism and Relativism from the Perspective of Significance in Practice | Lena Kästner: Network Explanations in Psychiatry: Interventions and causal relations? | Enno Fischer: Causes, Interventions, and Responsibility | François Pellet: Disease as Essence Destruction: The case of (lung) cancer |
| 15:10-15:50 | Walter Veit: How Evolutionary Game Theory Explains | Frida Trotter: Observables in Quantum Mechanics. An impasse for Bogen and Woodward’s account of science? | Samuel Kahn: Revitalizing Realism | Anke Bueter: Epistemic Injustice and Psychiatric Classification | Dennis Graemer, Frenzis Scheffels and Alexander Gebharter: How to Establish Backward Causation on Empirically Grounds: An interventionist approach | Ludger Jansen: Dispositions in Biomedical Ontologies |
| 15:50-16:30 | Thomas Reydon: How Far do Evolutionary Explanations Reach? On the application of evolutionary explanations to explain non-biological phenomena | Marij van Strien: David Bohm and Paul Feyerabend: dissenting positions in quantum physics and philosophy | Aimen Remida: What Kind of Realism – if any – is Whitehead’s Organic Realism? | Julia Pfeiff: Relations between Psychotherapeutic Practice and Models of Mental Disorders | Beate Krickel: Activity Causation | Sabine Baier: Discovery Narratives: Managing epistemic distances in drug discovery |
| 16:30-17:10 | Alexander Krauss: How Our Mind Enables and Constrains the Scientific Theories we Formulate | Stephan Fischer: Schrödinger’s Glass – Opposing dispositions co-instantiated TALK CANCELLED |
Ludwig Fahrbach: The No-miracles Argument is Not an Inference to the Best Explanation | Bojana Grujicic: Against Mechanistic Imperialism in the Domain of Psychology | Mariusz Maziarz: What is the Meaning of Causal Economic Claims? | Anja Pichl: Stem Cell Concepts: Broadening the scope of philosophy of science debate |
| 17:10-17:30 | Refreshments | |||||
| Plenary Lecture, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) (Chair: Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla) | ||||||
| 17:30-19:00 | C. Kenneth Waters: Scientific Metaphysics of Hierarchy | |||||
| 19:15- | Reception, Foyer of Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) | |||||
| Tuesday, February 26 | ||||||
| Plenary Lecture, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) (Chair: Gerhard Schurz) | ||||||
| 09:00-10:30 | Erik J. Olsson: Explicationist Epistemology and Epistemic Pluralism | |||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments | |||||
| Seminargebäude #106 | ||||||
| Room 22 | Room 23 | Room 24 | Room 25 | Room 26 | Tagungsraum | |
| Symposium: Models in High Energy Physics (Chair: Cord Friebe) | Symposium: Individuality and Individuation in the Life Sciences (Chair: Idit Chikurel) | Symposium (GAP-GWP): Deep Learning and the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (Chair: Holger Lyre) | Geneology, Biology, and Race (Chair: Mario Santos-Sousa) | Scientific Progress (Chair: Mark Fischer) | Scientific Inference (Chair: Daria Jadreškić) | |
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| 11:00-11:40 | Cristin Chall: Model-groups as Scientific Research Programs | Hannah O’Riain: Towards a Process Ontology of Pregnancy: links to the individuality debate | Cameron Buckner: Empiricism without Magic – Transformational abstraction in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks | Michael Koerner: Genealogy as a Scientific System of Order | Catherine Herfeld: Crossing Domains: The Role of the translator in the spread of scientific innovations | Jorge Luis García Rodríguez: A Naturalized Globally Convergent Solution to Goodman’s Paradox |
| 11:40-12:20 | Martin King: Explanation and the Rise of Model Independence | Ozan Altan Altinok: Hologenome Versus Holobiont: A Way to Extend Individuality in Vertebrates | Hajo Greif: On not Opening the Black Box. Transparency, Opacity, and the Pragmatics of Artificial Intelligence | Kamuran Osmanoglu: Against Phylogenetic Conceptions of Race | Chrysostomos Mantzavinos: Institutions and Scientific Progress | Karim Bschir: Un-blackswaning Scientific Prediction |
| 12:20-13:00 | Florian Boge: Semi-Hierarchies and Networks: How Simulation Models at ATLAS Interrelate | Nina Kranke: Individuation Practices in Studies of Host-Parasite Systems | Carlos Zednik: The Black Box Problem and the Norms of Explainable AI | Anna Klassen: Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology and the Recent Problem of Qualitative Terminology | Geoffrey Blumenthal: Using Systematicity for Analysing how a Special Science Progresses | Tobias Henschen: How Strong is the Argument from Inductive Risk? |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break | |||||
| Seminargebäude #106 | ||||||
| Room 22 | Room 23 | Room 24 | Room 25 | Room 26 | Tagungsraum | |
| Cosmology, Relativity, and Time (Chair: David Hommen) | Metaphysics of Laws and Chances (Chair: Gerhard Schurz) | Explanation (Chair: Daniel Kostic) | Bayesianism and Causation (Chair: Nicholas Danne) | Values (Chair: Saana Jukola) | Modeling, Idealisation, Application (Chair: Peter P. Kirschenmann) | |
| 14:30-15:10 | Dennis Lehmkuhl: The History and Interpretation of Black Hole Solutions | Thomas Kivatinos: A Mechanistic Conception of Metaphysical Grounding | Mustafa Efe Ates: Facing up the Problem of Scientific Idealization | Miklos Redei and Zalan Gyenis: Features of Bayesian Learning based on Conditioning using Conditional Expectations | Li-An Yu: On Telic and Instrumental Values in Framing Human Control over Nature | Axel Gelfert: When Less is (thought to be) More: Toy models, minimal models, and exploratory models |
| 15:10-15:50 | Niels Martens and Dennis Lehmkuhl: Dark Matter = Modified Gravity? Scrutinising the spacetime-matter distinction through the modified gravity/ dark matter lens | Petter Sandstad: A Re-evaluation of E. J. Lowe’s Account of Laws of Nature | Krzysztof Wójtowicz: Program Explanations and Mathematical Realism TALK CANCELLED |
Alexander Gebharter: A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-level Causation | Christoph Merdes: Moral Modeling | Meinard Kuhlmann: On the Exploratory Function of Agent-Based Modelling |
| 15:50-16:30 | Rico Gutschmidt: Reduction and Neighboring Theories. A new classification of the inter-theoretic relations in physics | Olivier Sartenaer: Humeanism, Best System Laws, and Emergence | Maria Forsberg: Patchy Endorsements and Explanatory Depth | Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla: Simplicity in Abductive Inference | Charles Lowe: The Consequences of Consequentialism for Values and Science | Rui Maia: What is a Model-Narrative? |
| 16:30-17:10 | David Hyder: Kant and Einstein on the Causal Order of Time | Patryk Dziurosz-Serafinowicz: Justifying Lewis’s Kinematics of Chance | Viorel Pâslaru: Descriptions for Explanation and Prediction of Conserved and Variable Mechanisms | Alexander Reutlinger: Objectivity as Independence | Silvia Ivani, Matteo Colombo and Leandra Bucher: Uncertainty in Science: A Study on the Role of Non-Cognitive Values in the Assessment of Inductive Risk | Paul Hoyningen-Huene: A Constructive Critique of Sugden’s View on Economic Models |
| 17:10-17:30 | Refreshments | |||||
| Plenary Lecture, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) (Chair: Uljana Feest) | ||||||
| 17:30-19:00 | Katherine Hawley: Who Speaks for Science? (de Gruyter Lecture) | |||||
| 19:15- | General Assembly, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) | |||||
| Wednesday, February 27 | ||||||
| Plenary Lecture, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) (Chair: Andreas Hüttemann) | ||||||
| 09:00-10:30 | Martin Carrier: How does Good Science-Based Advice to Politics Look Like? (Springer Lecture) | |||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments | |||||
| Seminargebäude #106 | ||||||
| Room 22 | Room 23 | Room 24 | Room 25 | Room 26 | Tagungsraum | |
| Symposium: Modality in Physics (Chair: Meinard Kuhlmann) | Biological Modeling (Chair: Anna Klassen) | History (Chair: Alexander Christian) | Emergence and Interdisciplinary Science (Chair: Petter Sandstad) | Cognitive Science (Chair: Cameron Buckner) | ||
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| 11:00-11:40 | Niels Linnemann: On Metaphysically Necessary Laws in Physics | Predrag Šustar and Zdenka Brzović: The Causal-Mechanical Explanation without Decomposition: The case of orphan genes | Benjamin Wilck: Scientific Definitions and a New Problem for Pyrrhonian Scepticism | Christian Sachse: The Subset Understanding of Multiple Realization: Nothing but advantages | Marko Jurjako, Luca Malatesti and Inti Brazil: Revisionary Reductionism and the Classification of Mental Disorders | |
| 11:40-12:20 | Andreas Bartels: Metaphysical and Physical Possibilities: How they relate and why we need them | Martin Zach: Idealization and Understanding with Diagrammatic Biological Models | Idit Chikurel: Maimon on Scientific Genius | Hardy Schilgen: Does Interdisciplinarity Require Integration? – Integrated outcomes and integrative scientific practice TALK CANCELLED |
Ori Hacohen: Representations in Cognitive Science: An argument against naturalization | |
| 12:20-13:00 | Kian Salimkhani: How Physical Practice Employs the ‘Physical Possible’ | Marcel Weber: From Theory Reduction and Reductive Explanation to Inter-level Scientific Practices: The Spemann-Mangold organizer and molecular developmental biology | Alan Park: Rhetorics of Empiricism and Disciplinary Purity: Alchemy and “protochemistry” in enlightenment Germany TALK CANCELLED |
Simon Lohse: Social Emergence and Unpredictability TALK CANCELLED |
Joe Dewhurst: Pluralistic Ontologies and Perspectival Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break | |||||
| Seminargebäude #106 | ||||||
| Room 22 | Room 23 | Room 24 | Room 25 | Room 26 | Tagungsraum | |
| Symposium: The Role of Empirical Methods in Philosophy of Science (Chair: Rico Gutschmidt) | Evidence in Medicine (Chair: Ludger Jansen) | Valuable Inferences (Chair: Chrysostomos Mantzavinos) | Maths (Chair: Corina Strößner) | Science and Public Policy (Chair: Ozan Altan Altinok) | ||
| 14:30-15:10 | Miles MacLeod: Meeting in the Middle: Adapting Qualitative Methods to Philosophical Questions | Barbara Osimani: Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference TALK CANCELLED |
Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernández and Francisco Hernández Quiroz: Computational Complexity as Evidence for the Epistemic Value of Deduction | Nicholas Danne: Mathematical Realism from Color Objectivism | Benedikt Knüsel: Understanding Climate Change with Process-Based and Data-Driven Models TALK CANCELLED |
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| 15:10-15:50 | Nora Hangel: Benefits and Limitations of Including Scientists’ Accounts in Philosophical Analysis | Saana Jukola: On Evidentiary Standards for Dietary Advice | David Botting: The Value Problem of A priori Knowledge | Deniz Sarikaya: Axiomatization as an Act of Mathematics Studies: Or the marvelick tradition and formalized mathematical theories. | Meghan Page: When Glaciers Prophesy: Building a case for predictive historical science | |
| 15:50-16:30 | Dunja Šešelja: Using Agent-based Models to Explain Scientific Inquiry: current limitations and future prospects | Alexander Christian: Disambiguating Scientific Disagreement, Honest Mistakes, Lack of Care, and Misconduct in Medical Statistics | Daria Jadreškić: Time-sensitivity in Science | Peter P. Kirschenmann and Henk de Regt: On the Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science | David Hopf: The Relevance and Weight of Scientific Evidence in Policy Decisions | |
| 16:30-17:10 | Mario Santos-Sousa: Grounding Numerals | Simon Friederich Is Deploying Nuclear Power Unethical? | ||||
| 17:10-17:30 | Refreshments | |||||
| Plenary Lecture, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) (Chair: Michael T. Hicks) | ||||||
| 17:30-19:00 | Michael Strevens: Necessity in Scientific Explanation | |||||
| 19:00-19:15 | Closing, Lecture Hall C (Hörsaalgebäude #105) | |||||
