EPSA 2009 Amsterdam
21st – 24th OCTOBER 2009 EPSA 2009
2009 BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
THE SECOND (2009) MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION TOOK PLACE FROM 21st to 24th OCTOBER 2009 at The Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Within the Conference Programme : The Archive Trust recorded the following talks :
DAY ONE : Wednesday 21st OCTOBER 2009
No Talks Recorded
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DAY TWO : Thursday 22nd OCTOBER 2009
EPSA 2009 : Thursday 22nd October 2009 : Second Plenary Lecture :
Mary S. MORGAN : The Inferential Scope of Facts. Duration of recording : 44 minutes 16 seconds
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Thursday 22nd OCTOBER 2009 : 9:00 – 11:00 AM Parallel Sessions :
Philosophy of Mathematics
Room 6 A – 04 : Chair : Mark Colyvan
Talk 1 : Michael BARANY : Cauchy’s Course in Analysis and the Place of Methodological Rigor
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Talk 2 : Jacob BUSCH : Indispensability, Confirmation and Explanation
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Talk 3 : Alex GELFERT : Representational Force and the Role of Mathematical Formalism
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Talk 4 : Elaine LANDRY : Reconstructing Hilbert’s Program in the Light of Category-theoretic Structuralism.
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Total length of recording of Session : 2 hours 28 minutes 56 seconds
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Thursday 22nd October 2009 : 9:00-11:00 Parallel Sessions
Session 5 : Symposium on Identity and Individuality in Physics
Chair : Jeremy BUTTERFIELD
TALK 1 : M.P. SEEVINCK & F.A. MULLER : How to Discern Elementary Particles
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TALK 2 : Adam CAULTON (Cambridge) : Symmetric Paraparticles and a Motivation for Structuralism
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Talk 3 : Matteo MORGANTI : Identity in Physics
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Plus General Questions to and Discussions with all speakers
Total length of Recording of Session : 2 hrs 22 mins 33 seconds
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Thursday 22nd October 2009 :
Parallel Sessions 14:00 – 16:00 : Session 5 : Symposium :
Laws, Chances and Measures in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Chair : Nick HUGGETT
Talk 1 : Roman FRIGG : Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics
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Talk 2 : Carl HOEFER : The Best Humean System for Statistical Mechanics.
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Talk3 : Mathias FRISCH : Lewisian Laws and Loewer’s SM-Counterfactuals
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Talk 4 : Eric WINSBERG : Laws and Chances in Statistical Mechanics
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Total length of Recording of Session : 1 hour 55 minutes 26 seconds
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Thursday 22 October 2009 : 14:00-16:00 Parallel Sessions :
Session 3 : Models and Miscellania : Chair : Marcel BOUMANS
TALK 1 : Till GRUENNE-YANOFF : Messy Model Metaphysics
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TALK 2 : Demetris PORTIDES : Theories, Models & Scientific Representation
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TALK 3 :Anna-Mari RUSANEN (With Otto LAPPI) : Models as Information-Carrying Artefacts
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TALK 4 : Gurol IRZIK : The Internal-External Distinction Sheds Light on the 20th Century Philosophy of Science
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Total length of recording of Session : 2 hrs 17 mins 35 seconds
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Thursday 22nd October
Parallel Sessions 16:30 – 18:30 : Session 2 : Philosophy of Economics :
Room 10A-04 : Chair : Tarja Knuuttila. ICA 005
Talk 1 : Rogier De LANGHE : Trading off Explanatory Virtues in Economics
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Talk 2 : Conrad HEILMANN : A Defence of Time Discounting in Economics
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Talk 3 : Caterina MARCHIONNI : General Models, Unified Explanations and Robust Theorems in Model-based Economics
Followed by General Discussion.
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Total length of recording of Session : 2 hours 00 mins 45 seconds
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Thursday 22 October 2009 : 16:30 – 18:30 Parallel Sessions :
Session 3 : History of Philosophy of Science 1 : Carnap
First scheduled talk (Flavia Padovani : Relativizing the Relativized A Priori) cancelled
TALK 1 of remaining 2 Talks : Georg SCHIEMER : Carnap’s Early Semantics : Models, Extremality Axioms and Categoricity
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TALK 2 : Thomas UEBEL :Carnap’s Method of Ramseyfication defended
Plus following discussions
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Total length of recording of Session : 2 hrs 00 mins 43 seconds
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DAY THREE : Friday 23rd OCTOBER 2009
Friday 23rd October 2009 : Parallel Sessions 9:00 – 11:00
Session 2 : General Philosophy of Science 4 : Emergence and Miscellania. Chaired by Alex BIRD
(Missing First Talk : P. Hoyningen-Huene : Emergence : Postulates and Candidates.)
TALK 2 : Alexander MANAFU : 2 Notions of Emergence Regarding the Chemical
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TALK 3 : Ioan MUNTEAN (Leeds) : A New View of/Conception of Universals : Maudlin’s Fiber Bundle Metaphysics : Expository and Critical Remarks
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Beginning of Talk 4 by Panu Raaitikainen : Causation, Exclusion and the Special Sciences
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Friday 23rd OCTOBER 2009 : Parallel Session 9:00 – 11:00 am
Session 4 : Symposium : Causation, Laws and Kinds : The Allure of A Kantian Third Way : Room 6A-04 :
Chair : Dale JACQUETTE
Talk 1 : Brad WESLAKE : Causal Relativism (read in absentia by Michela Massimi):
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Talk 2 : Angelo CEI and Steven FRENCH : Laws, Symmetries and Objects :
A Neo-Kantian Template for Structuralism.
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Talk 3 : Michela MASSIMI : Carving Nature at Its Joints : Kantian Kinds and Natural Kinds.
Followed by General Panel Discussion.
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Total length of recording of Session : 2 hours 05 minutes 50 seconds :
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Friday 23rd OCTOBER 2009 : 14:00 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions.
Session 6 : Symposium : Influences on The Vienna Circle Reconsidered.
Room 4A-04 : Chair : Gurol Irzik
Talk 1 : Friedrich STADLER : Ernst Mach and the Vienna Circle : Reception and Influences Re-evaluated
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Talk 2 : Thomas UEBEL : Wilhelm Jerusalem and the Vienna Circle
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Talk 3 (beginning) : Massimo FERRARI : A Forgotten Background to the Vienna Circle : Hans Kleinpeter : Between Nietzsche and Mach.
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Total length of recording of Session : 1 hour 2 minutes 3 seconds
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(Last part of) 14:00-16:00 Friday 23rd October 2009 14:00-16:00 Parallel Sessions :
Session 3 : General Philosophy of Science
i) Questions and Discussion Session following Talk 3 of that session by
Wolfgang PIETSCH : Underdetermination, or Why the Historical Perspective makes a Difference
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ii) Talk 4 of Session :
Juha SAATSI : Scientific Realism and The History of Science : Short-comings in the current State of the Debate
Total length of recording : 43 minutes 07 seconds
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Friday 23rd OCTOBER 2009 : 16:30-18:30 Parallel Sessions :
Session 5 : Holism and Reductionism in the Post-genomic Era
Room 5A-06 : Chair : Samir Okasha
Talk 1 : Mark A.BEDAU : Pluralism about Emergence
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Talk 2 : Giovanni BONIOLO and Giuseppe TESTA : Identity and Epigenomics : Why We Should Re-think the Dyad “Reductionism-Holism”
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Talk 3 : John HUSS : Superorganism or Soup of Organisms : Metagenomics and the Ontology of the Human Microbiome Project
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Talk 4 : Bart SWIATCZAK : Complexity and Context-sensitivity of Immune Recognition
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(Scheduled Talk 5 by Robert Meunier : Open Environmental Interaction and Open-Ended Evolution was cancelled.
Total length of recording : 1 hour 47 minutes 27 seconds
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DAY FOUR : SATURDAY 24th OCTOBER 2009
Saturday 24th October 2009 9:00 – 11:00 am Parallel Sessions
Session 1 : Philosophy of Physics 3 : Spacetime and Miscellanea
Room 11 A – 06
Talk 1 : Mathias FRISCH : Principle or Constructive Relativity ?
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Talk 2 : Eleanor KNOX (Oxford) : When is a Geometry a Spacetime Geometry ?
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Talk 3 : Laura FELLINE : Special Relativity and Causal Explanation
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Talk 4 : Charlotte WERNDL : The Indistinguishability of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions
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Total length of recording : 2 hours 00 minutes 22 seconds
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Saturday 24th October 2009 : 11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions :
Session 5 : General Philosophy of Science : Common Causes
TALK 1 : Inaki SAN PEDRO : Venetian Sea Levels, British Bread Prices
And Reichenbach’s Principle of the Common Cause : A Reassessment
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TALK 2 : Chrissovalanntis STERGIOU : 2 Comments on The Common Cause Principle in Algebraic QFT
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Total length of recording : 59 mins 20 secs
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Saturday 24th October 2009 11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions :
Session 4 : History of Philosophy of Science 2 : Newtonian Studies
Room 6 A – 04
Talk 1 : Albrecht FRITZCHE : Instruments of Understanding : The Contribution of Mechanical Tools to The History of Astronomy
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Talk 2 : Vassilis SAKELLARIOU : From Kepler to Newton : A Case of the Divide et Impera Move.
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Talk 3 : Eric SCHLEISSER : Without God : Gravity as a Relational Quality in Newton.
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Total length of recording : 1 hour 31 minutes 43 seconds
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