Welcome Address
Stephan Völker, Erster Vizepräsident, TU Berlin

Matthew Lund. Bessel and the Epistemology of Observational Relativity

Edoardo Peruzzi and Gustavo Cevolani. Defending (de-) idealization in economic modelling: a case study

Idit Chikurel. Maimon as a Baconian: Induction, Empirical Objects and Natural Histories

David Hommen. Poetry and Truth – Scientific Models as Perspicuous Representations

Julia Sanchez-Dorado. Judgments of similarity and a pragmatic account of representation

William D’Alessandro. Unrealistic Models in Mathematics

Beate Krickel. What mechanisms can do for (the philosophy of) cognitive science and psychology other than explaining

Jon Williamson. Applying Evidential Pluralism to the Social Sciences

Yafeng Shan. Is evidence of mechanisms sufficient for making within-case causal claims?

Stephan Fischer. Zur Konzeption der Globalgeschichte

Filip Buyse. The Physiologist Johannes Peter Müller and the Philosopher Spinoza: An Underestimated Relation

Yuval Eytan. Hobbes on Scientific Happiness

Johanna Sarisoy. A failure to replicate – a failure of what?

Sophia Crüwell. Reframing the replication crisis as a crisis of inference

Niels Martens. Comparing the explanatory power of ΛCDM & modified gravity

Frida Trotter. Breaking underdetermination with norms
TALK CANCELLED

Iulian Toader. Einstein Completeness as Categoricity

Tina Wachter. Does Referencing in QM Require Free Logic?
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Raimund Pils. Scientific Realism and Epistemic Risk

Matthias Egg. Quantum Fundamentalism vs. Scientific Realism

Sébastien Rivat. How Theoretical Terms Effectively Refer

Enno Fischer. Naturalness: a Constitutive Principle

Lara Huber. Epistemic Significance: Broadening the Perspective

Daniel Minkin. Conspiracy Theories: Some Teachings from Philosophy of Science

Lorenzo Spagnesi. Idealization and Knowledge of Nature: A Kantian Approach

Noelia Iranzo Ribera. Counternomic Reasoning as Make-Believe

Mousa Mohammadian. An Armstrongian Defense of Dispositional Monist Accounts of Laws

Markus Schrenk. Which Predicates, which Properties for Better Best Systems?

Vassilis Livanios. Thin Powers and the Governing Problem

Anna Leuschner and Manuela Fernández Pinto. Research on Shooting Bias: Social and Epistemic Problems

Olivier Ouzilou. Social sciences and conspiracy theorizing: the problem of collective entities

Simon Blessenohl and Deniz Sarikaya. A Norm for Science Advice: Making Beliefs Accurate

Luca Malatesti, Marko Jurjako and Inti Brazil. Integrating legal categories with biocognitive data: the case of the insanity defence

Hajo Greif. Analogue Models and Universal Machines: The Separation and Realignment of Cybernetic Paradigms

Wiktor Rorot. Counting on the Cilia: Cybernetics, Morphological Computation, and Computational Enactivism

Krzysztof Dolega. What can Free Energy Modelers Learn from Cybernetics?

Jacob Stegenga and Tarun Menon. A New Defence of the Value-Free Ideal
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Jitka Paitlova. The value of value neutrality

Torsten Wilholt. Symmetries and Asymmetries in Epistemic Risk Management

Lena Kästner. Multiplexes: New Directions for Computational Psychiatry?

Mario Santos-Sousa. Progress in Psychiatry

Antonella Tramacere. Has the evolutionary study of the mind reached an impasse?

Daniel Kostic and Willem Halffman. Explanatory imperialism: empirical evidence for the explanatory language in neuroscience

Barnaby Crook. The Compact Core – Emergent Structure Distinction in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks

Lukas J. Meier. Thought Experimentation as a Scientific Method

Spyridon Koutroufinis. The Phenomenon of Organism – Three Different Levels of Analysis
TALK VIA ZOOM

Antonio Danese. Flowers and Teleology

Ana Katic. The Dynamical Biological Explanation: A New Perspective for the Concept of Superorganism

Martin Valkovic. Cultural evolution of human cooperation

(TBC) Agathe du Crest. Objectivity at stake in mathematical models: the study case of evolutionary history

Hugh Desmond, Andre Ariew, Philippe Huneman, Thomas Reydon. The varieties of Darwinism: An integrated dynamic account

Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla and Philipp Haueis. Patchwork Approaches to Concepts and Different Scales

Catherine Herfeld and Dunja Seselja. Challenges to Methodology Transfer in Science

Aznavur Dustmamatov. Geography as Science: The Limits of the Geo-Ontological Approach

Christopher Pincock and Michael Poznic. What do engineers understand? The case of biological methanation

Céline Gressel. The Usage of Extended Reality Technologies in the Contexts of a healthy Life and their Impact on Well-being

Dawid Kasprowicz, Daniel Wenz and Gabriele Gramelsberger. How to Explore Scientific Code? (in Philosophy of Science)

Marianne van Panhuys and Rafaela Hillerbrand. Epistemic risks and computer simulation: a case study from particle physics
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Samuel Fletcher. Causal Modeling as Counterfactual Semantics

Paul M. Näger. Evidence for interactive common causes. Resuming the Cartwright-Hausman-Woodward debate

Donal Khosrowi. Extrapolating Causal Effects – Where Is Our Theory of Confidence?

Jan Borner. Causal Power Quantified – A Generalisation and Defense of Cheng’s Causal Power Measure

Vlasta Sikimić. Efficient Team Structures in Biology
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K.Brad Wray. TheEpistemic Significanceof the Size of ResearchTeams

Li-An Yu. Epistemic injustice of climate change: the coherence problem of specific and general information

Sacha Ferrari. Uberized science is the new black

David Schroeren. State-Space-First Ontology: An Escape from the Pessimistic Meta-Induction?
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Marco Forgione. Feynman: Visualization and Understanding of Quantum Phenomena
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Rose Trappes. The Pervasiveness of Sex in Behavioural Ecology

Franziska Reinhard. Re-Construction or Re-Invention? Experimental Research into the Origins of Life

Vito Balorda and Predrag Šustar. Natural Selection: Pathway or Mechanism? Insights from Cancer Research

Aleksandar V. Božić. Explaining the vagueness of life: „individuals thinking“ vs. natural kinds approach

Ludwig Fahrbach. The abundance of scientific evidence for our best theories: Too much of a good thing?

Jens Harbecke. Mechanistic Constitution as a Natural Law

Anne Sophie Meincke. Free Will and the Metaphysics of Agency
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Ryan Miller. Mereological Atomism’s Quantum Problems
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Qiu Lin. Du Châtelet on Mechanical Explanation vs. Physical Explanation
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Stefan Roski. In Defence of Explanatory Realism

Alexander Gebharter and Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla. Unification and Explanation: A causal perspective

Martina Blečić and Predrag Šustar. Biological Metaphors as Vehicles for Explanation?

Marcel Weber. Modeling Modality: The Case of Evolvability in Evo-Devo
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Leon de Bruin and Daniel Kostic. How evolutionary and environmental factors shape the relationship between structural functional connectivity
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Konstantin Genin. Causal Discovery and the Randomized Controlled Trial

Tom Sterkenburg. The No-Free-Lunch Theorems of Supervised Learning

Francesca Zaffora Blando. Merging of Opinions for Computable Bayesian Agents and Algorithmic Randomness

Daniel Koenig. The Objectivity of Mathematics. On the Reception of 19th-Century Mathematics in Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Culture

Deborah Kant. Deep peer disagreement in set theory

Michael Friedman. On Grothendieck’s philosophy of mathematics and nautical metaphors

Ivan Nenchev and Benjamin Wilck. Linguistic versus Metalinguistic Testing in Schizophrenia Research

Sebastian Sunday Grève. Turing’s Philosophy of Intelligence

Benjamin Wilck. Logic and Language in Euclid’s “Elements”

Salim Hirèche, Niels Linnemann, Robert Michels, Lisa Vogt. Scrutinising non-absolutist law accounts on physics: The case for a non-absolutist DTA account

Andreas Bartels: Kinematical constraints: No support for non-absolutism about laws of nature

Salim Hirèche, Niels Linnemann, Robert Michels: On the relationship between meta- and non-absolutist laws

Thomas Blanchard and Andreas Hüttemann. Causal Bayes Nets, Causal Exclusion, and Symmetric Dependence

Christoph Merdes. Learning Source Reliability on Multiple Propositions

Jonas Raab. Too Many Dutch Book Arguments?

Philipp Haueis. Patchwork concepts and the norms of explanation

Gregor Hörzer. Constitutive Relevance First: Mechanistic Explanations without Mechanisms?

Inigo Ongay de Felipe. What is the role of Philosophy of Biology with regard to the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and why should it matter

Mariusz Maziarz. A Perspectival View on Inconsistent Results of Clinical Trials

Julia Mirkin. Trust in Research on Human Germline Genome Editing

Saana Jukola. Bodies of Evidence – Determining the Cause of Death and the Problem of Underdetermination
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Luis Lopez. Machine Learning Models and Understanding of Phenomena

Oliver Buchholz. The Curve-Fitting Problem Revisited

Jules Salomone-Sehr and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde. What Might We Learn About Shared Agency Thanks to Game Theory?

Radin Dardashti. On the theory-ladenness of theorizing

Anna Elisabeth Höhl. Grasping and Explaining – The GE-Account of Scientific Understanding

Niki Pfeifer. The probabilistic turn in the psychology of reasoning: a necessary paradigm shift?

Karim Baraghith and Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla. From Reduction to Unification: The Case of Cultural Evolutionary Psychology

Maria Sekatskaya. Reductionism in the Philosophy of Science and the Problem of Mental Properties

Matej Kohar. The Scaling-up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View

Andrea Oldofredi. Relational Quantum Mechanics and the PBR Theorem: A Peaceful Coexistence
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Markus Frembs and Frida Trotter. Categorically classical: Lessons from no-go theorems in quantum foundations

Michael te Vrugt, Gyula I Tóth and Raphael Wittkowski. Irreversibility in statistical mechanics: from quantum mechanics to soft matter theory
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Paul Hoyningen-Huene. Objectivity, the Ideal of Value-Free Science, and Rudner’s Objection

Michele Luchetti and Matteo De Benedetto. A dynamic model of theory choice: epistemic values as environmental niches

Eoin Perry. Representational Risk and the Representation of Statistical Evidence