Programme
Material for GWP.2022
Plenary Speakers
- Anjan Chakravartty (Miami)
- Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh)
- Brigitte Falkenburg (Dortmund/Berlin)
- Branden Fitelson (Northeastern/Boston)
- Hans Rott (Regensburg)
- Jutta Schickore (IU Bloomington)
Programme Schedule
Monday, August 15, 2022 | |||||||
08:00-09:00 | Registration | ||||||
09:00-09:15 | Opening Remarks (Audimax: H0105) Gerhard Schurz, GWP President Axel Gelfert, Chair, Local Organizing Committee Welcome Address |
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09:15-10:45 Plenary |
Hans Rott: Relevance and Conditionals (Audimax: H0105) Chair: Gerhard Schurz |
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10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break (H3005) | ||||||
11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions: Contributed papers & symposia |
H0105 (Audimax) | H1012 | H1058 | H2013 | H2038 | H3006 | H3010 |
Observation, Idealization, Induction: Case Studies Chair: Sahra Styger 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 |
Models and Representations Chair: Axel Gelfert 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 |
SYMPOSIUM: Mechanisms in the Cognitive and Social Sciences
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? |
Historical Perspectives Chair: Birgit Beck 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 |
SYMPOSIUM: The Replication Crisis and Philosophy of Science
Johanna Sarisoy. A failure to replicate – a failure of what? Sophia Crüwell. Reframing the replication crisis as a crisis of inference |
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13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break (light refreshments provided in H3005) | ||||||
14:00-16:40 Parallel sessions: Contributed papers |
H0105 (Audimax) | H1012 | H1058 | H2013 | H2038 | H3006 | H3010 |
Philosophy of Physics (1) Chair: Karim Baraghith Niels Martens. Comparing the explanatory power of ΛCDM & modified gravity Frida Trotter. Breaking underdetermination with norms Iulian Toader. Einstein Completeness as Categoricity Tina Wachter. Does Referencing in QM Require Free Logic? |
Scientific Realism and the Practices of Science Chair: Sam Fletcher 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 |
Epistemology of Science Chair: Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla 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 |
Laws of Nature Chair: Andreas Hüttemann 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 |
Science in its Social Context Chair: Axel Gelfert 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 |
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16:40-17:00 | Break | ||||||
17:00-18:30 Plenary |
De Gruyter Lecture Mazviita Chirimuuta: Formal Idealism/Haptic Realism (H0104) Chair: Holger Lyre |
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18:30-19:00 | Break | ||||||
19:00-… | Conference Dinner (Restaurant Bhetghat) | ||||||
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | |||||||
09:00-10:30 Plenary |
Jutta Schickore: Causation, Observation, and Experiment: Reflections on Practical Inquiry in the German Lands Around 1800 (H0104) Chair: Alexander Gebharter |
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10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break (H3005) | ||||||
11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions: Contributed papers & symposia |
H0105 (Audimax) | H1012 | H1058 | H2013 | H2038 | H3006 | H3010 |
SYMPOSIUM: The Cybernetic Renaissance
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? |
Science and Values (1) Chair: Michael Poznic Jacob Stegenga and Tarun Menon. A New Defence of the Value-Free Ideal Jitka Paitlova. The value of value neutrality Torsten Wilholt. Symmetries and Asymmetries in Epistemic Risk Management |
Psychology and Psychiatry Chair: Beate Krickel 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? |
Mind, Method, Mechanism Chair: Dirk Koppelberg 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 |
Organisms and Superorganisms Chair: Filip Buyse Spyridon Koutroufinis. The Phenomenon of Organism – Three Different Levels of Analysis Antonio Danese. Flowers and Teleology Ana Katic. The Dynamical Biological Explanation: A New Perspective for the Concept of Superorganism |
SYMPOSIUM: The Legitimacy of Generalizing Darwinism
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 |
Method Transfer Across Disciplines and Scales Chair: Alexander Gebharter 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 |
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13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break – light refreshments provided in H3005 | ||||||
14:30-17:10 Parallel sessions: Contributed papers |
H0105 (Audimax) | H1012 | H1058 | H2013 | H2038 | H3006 | H3010 |
Engineering, Technology, Simulation Chair: Matej Kohár 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 |
Causal Methods Chair: Vera Hoffmann-Kolss 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 |
The Social Organization of Science Chair: Axel Gelfert Vlasta Sikimić. Efficient Team Structures in Biology 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 |
Philosophy of Physics (2) Chair: Cord Friebe David Schroeren. State-Space-First Ontology: An Escape from the Pessimistic Meta-Induction? Marco Forgione. Feynman: Visualization and Understanding of Quantum Phenomena |
Philosophy of Biology Chair: Marcel Weber 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 |
General Philosophy of Science (1) Chair: Sébastien Rivat 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 Ryan Miller. Mereological Atomism’s Quantum Problems Qiu Lin. Du Châtelet on Mechanical Explanation vs. Physical Explanation |
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17:10-17:30 | Coffee Break (H3005) | ||||||
17:30-19:00 Plenary |
Anjan Chakravartty: The Role of Epistemic Stances in Interpreting Science: Naturalistic Challenges (Audimax: H0105) Chair: Axel Gelfert |
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19:00-19:15 | Break | ||||||
19:15-… | GWP General Assembly (GWP members only; H0104) | ||||||
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 | |||||||
09:00-10:30 Plenary |
Branden Fitelson: Bayesianism & Explanationism (Audimax: H0105) Chair: Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla |
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10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break (H3005) | ||||||
11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions: Contributed papers & symposia |
H0105 (Audimax) | H1012 | H1058 | H2013 | H2038 | H3006 | H3010 |
Explanation (1) Chair: Torsten Wilholt 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? |
Evolution SESSION CANCELLED Marcel Weber. Modeling Modality: The Case of Evolvability in Evo-Devo Leon de Bruin and Daniel Kostic. How evolutionary and environmental factors shape the relationship between structural functional connectivity |
GAP-SYMPOSIUM: Learning from Data: The Secret to Success
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 |
Mathematics Chair: Markus Schrenk 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 |
Logic and Language Chair: Oliver Buchholz 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” |
SYMPOSIUM: Are all Laws of Physics Created Equal?
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 |
Bayesian Approaches Chair: Hajo Greif 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? |
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13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break | ||||||
14:30-16:30 Parallel sessions: Contributed papers |
H0105 (Audimax) | H1012 | H1058 | H2013 | H2038 | H3006 | H3010 |
Explanation (2) Chair: Stefan Roski 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 |
Biomedical Science Chair: Julia Sánchez-Dorado 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 |
Machine Learning and Game Theory Chair: Tom Sterkenburg 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? |
General Philosophy of Science (2) Chair: Li-an Yu 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? |
Mind and Cognition Chair: Dirk Koppelberg 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 |
Philosophy of Physics (3) Chair: Iulian Toader Andrea Oldofredi. Relational Quantum Mechanics and the PBR Theorem: A Peaceful Coexistence 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 |
Science and Values (2) Chair: Anna Leuschner 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 |
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16:30-17:00 | Break (H3005) | ||||||
17:00-18:30 Plenary |
Springer Lecture Brigitte Falkenburg: Data, Theories and Probability in Physics (H0104) Chair: Vera Hoffmann-Kolss |
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18:30-18:45 | Closing Remarks |