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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)