THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION TOOK PLACE IN ATHENS, GREECE FROM 5th to 8th OCTOBER 2011

The Conference was hosted by The Department of Philosophy and History of Science of the University of Athens although the Conference venue was moved from The University to The Titania Hotel at 52 Panepistimiou Avenue

The Full Program of The Conference can be seen at

http://epsa11.phs.uoa.gr/index.files/EPSA11Programme%20final.pdf

For the other information from the Conference Website see

http://epsa11.phs.uoa.gr/index.files/Page689.htm

The Archive Trust recorded the following portions of the EPSA 2011 Conference on Video and/or on Digital Audio and subject to the permission of the Speakers and The Committee of EPSA links to the recordings themselves and (in the case of the digital audio recordings) links to the overheads of the talks will be added to this Site as they become available

DAY ONE :  WEDNESDAY 5th OCTOBER 2011

14:00 – 14:30  :  Opening Ceremony of the Conference

Addresses by

Thomas Sfikopoulos, Vice-Rector of the University of Athens

Costas Dimitracopoulos, Chair of the dept of PHS, University of Athens

Friedrich Stadler, President of EPSA

Stathis Psillos, Chair of LOC of EPSA11

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14:30 – 16:00  :  Plenary Lecture

Dan SPERBER  (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

The Argumentative Method of Reasoning and Its Relevance to The Study of Science

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16:30 – 19:00 :  Wednesday Parallel Sessions I

A.  MODELS IN EXPLANATION

(Hypatia Room)  Chair :  Dionysios ANAPOLITANOS

Talk 1 :  Anna-Marie RUSANEN :  Information Semantics and the Problem of Imaginary Models

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Talk 2 :  Alisa BOKULICH : Explanatory Models -vs- Predictive Models : Some lessons from Geomorphology

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Talk 3 :  Joel KATZAV :  Climate Models and Inference to the Best Explanation

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Talk 4 :  Demetris PORTIDES :  Idealization and Scientific Models : Reducing the Information Content.

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B.  SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY   (Socrates)

Chair:  Kristina Rolin

Talk 1 :  Kristen Intemann and Inmaculada De Melo-Martín:   Scientific Dissent, Objectivity, and Public Policy

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Talk 2 :  José Luis Luján and Oliver Todt:   Epistemic and Non-Epistemic Values in Regulatory Science: The Case of Risk Assessment

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Talk 3 :  Matthew J. Brown:   The Democratic Control of the Scientific Control of Politics

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Talk 4  :  Rose-Mary Sargent:   Early Twentieth Century Debates over Science in the Public Interest

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Talk 5 :  Elisabeth Nemeth:  What is the Role Science Can (And Ought to) Play in Democratic Decision-Making? Harry Collins’ “Normative Theory of Expertise” in Historical Perspective

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C.  THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES Part I   (Platon)

Chair:  Kenneth Waters

Talk 1 :  Kirsten Schmidt:  What Genes are not—The Postgenomic Gene as a Process Gene

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Talk 2 :  Christopher Pearson:  Description versus Explanation in Developmental Biology

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Talk 3 :  Maria Kronfeldner:  The Full Slate:  Human Nature and Causation

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Talk 4 :  Emily Parke:  Lessons from Arsenic Bacteria? Methodology and Implications of the Search for Alternative Life Forms

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D. PHILOSOPHY OF EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE  (Omiros)

Chair:  Pieter Vermaas

Talk 1 :  Sally Riordan:  The First Determination of the Kilogram, 1790-1799: A Fresh Look at the Theoretical-Observational Divide

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Talk 2 :  Sjoerd D. Zwart:  Models as Artifacts: The Neutrality Thesis for Engineering Models

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Talk 3 :  Roger Stanev:  The Justification of Statistical Decisions in Clinical Trials

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Talk 4 :  Efi Kyprianidou :  On the Nature of Scientific Photography: Questions of Representing and Viewing

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Talk 5 :  Sophia Efstathiou and Eric Silverman: Conceptual Frameworks and Interdisciplinarity: Modelling Ageing Populations

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E.  PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY and PSYCHIATRY (Solon)

Chair:  Drakoulis Nikolinakos

Talk 1 :  Adela Roszkowski:  The Cognitive Impenetrability of Perception and the Theoryladenness of Observation Debate

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Talk 2 :  Panagiotis Oulis:  Explanatory Coherence, Partial Truth and the Distinction Between Validity and Utility of Psychiatric Diagnosis

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Talk 3 :  Thomas Sturm:  Metacognition and the Rationality Debate in Psychology

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Talk 4 :  Matt Bateman:  Experimental Inquiry in Cognitive Neuroscience

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DAY TWO :  THURSDAY OCTOBER 6th 2011

09.00-11.00 Parallel sessions

A.  Symposium:  Is there a Nature of the Chemical Bond ? (Hypatia)

Chair : Theodore Arabatzis

Speakers : Michael Weisberg, Julia Bursten, Robin Hendry and Paul Needham

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B :  Symposium:  From Evolution to Development and Back : Towards a Developmental Theory  (Socrates)

Chair:  Uskali Mäki

Lucie Laplane, Francesca Merlin, Antonine Nicoglou and Thomas Pradeu

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C.  Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics I   (Aristotle)

Chair:   Dennis Dieks

Talk 1 :  Laura Felline:  It’s a Matter of Principle : Reconstructions of Quantum Theory as a Principle Theory and their Contribution to the Understanding of the Quantum World

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Talk 2 :  Juan Sebastián Ardenghi, Olimpia Lombardi And Martín Narvaja:   Consecutive  Measurements and Modal Interpretations

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Talk 3 :  Albert Solé:  The Redundancy Argument and The many Interpretations of BohmianMechanics

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Talk 4 :  Richard Healey:  How to Use Quanum theory Locally to Explain EPR-BellCorrelations

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D.  Mechanisms in Explanation  (Omiros)

Chair:  Erik Weber

Talk 1 :  Eleanor Knox:  The Limits of Abstraction – Finding Space for Novel Explanation

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Talk 2 :  Jaakko Kuorikoski and Petri Ylikoski : How Organization Explains

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Talk 3 :  Richardson, Fred Boogerd and Frank Bruggeman: Articulating Mechanisms

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Talk 4 :  Samuel Schindler :  Mechanistic Explanations : Asymmetry Lost 

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E.  Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences I  (Solon)

Chair:  Eduard Machery

Talk 1 :  Lilia Gurova :  Principles versus Mechanisms in Cognitive Science

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Talk 2 :  Lena Kästner  :  Intervedntionism Cannot Cross

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Talk 3 :  Markus Eronen :  Pluralistic Physicalism and the Causal Exclusion Argument

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Talk 4 :  Emma Martín Álvarez, Paco Calvo and Angel Garcia Rodriguez :  Cognitive Mechanisms as Biological, not Physical Mechanisms

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11.00-11.30  :  Coffee Break

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11.30-13.30 Parallel sessions

A.  Symposium:  Symmetries, Superselection and Satistics  (Hypatia)

Chair:  Steven French

Speakers :  Adam Caulton, David Baker, Hans Halvorson, Klaas Landsman and Noel Swanson

Cancelled

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B.  Symposium :  The realiability of Climate Model Prediction  (Socrates)

Chair:  Roman Frigg 

Speakers :  Katie Steele, Charlotte Werndl, Arthur Petersen, Jan Sprenger and Seamus Bradley

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C.  Realism and Anti-Realism I  (Aristotle)

Chair:  Anjan Chakravarty.

Talk 1 :   Emma Ruttkamp :  A Novel Defence of the Retrospective Nature of Reference

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Talk 2 :  Alberto Cordero  :  Theory-Parts for Realists

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Talk 3 :  Dean Peters :  Partial Realism, Anti-Realism and Deflationary Realism : Can History Settle the Argument?

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Talk 4 :  Luca Tambolo :  The Normative Naturalist against the Pessimistic Induction

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D.  Science as Collective Knowledge  (Omiros)

Chair :  Vasso Kindi

Talk 1 :  Hanne Andersen :  Acting out of Line : On Joint Acceptance and Unilateral Rescission in Scientific Research Groups

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Talk 2 :  Cyrille Imbert :  Collective Science : How not to Lose Scientific Understanding

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Talk 3 :  Adam Toon :  Friends at Last ?  Distributed Cognition and the Cognitive/Social Divide

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Talk 4 :  Thomas Boyer :  Is A Bird in the Hand Worth Two in the Bush? Or, Whether ScientistsShould Publish Intermediate Results

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E.  Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences II  (Solon)

Chair:   Lilia Gurova

Talk 1 :  Víctor Verdejo:  Computationalism, Connectionism, Dynamicism and Beyond : Looking For An Integrated Approach To Cognitive Science

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Talk 2 :  Norman Sieroka :  Neurophenomenology of Hearing : Relations to intentionality and Time Consciousness

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Talk 3 :  Lieven Decock and Igor Douven:  Qualia Compression

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13.30-15.00  :  Lunch

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15.00-16.30 Plenary lecture   (Apollon)

Chair: Fritz Stadler

Helen Longino (Stanford University)  :  The Sociality of Scientific Knowledge: Not Just an Academic Question

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16.30-17.00  :Tea Break

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17.00-19.00 Parallel sessions

A.  Symposium:   Can We Really Lewis The Laws of Nature ?  (Hypatia)

Chair:  Gerhard Schurz

Speakers :  Thomas Müller, Marcus Schrenk, Jesse Mulder and Carl Hoefer

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B.  Symposium :  Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Human Sociality  (Socrates)

Chair:  Matti Sintonen

Speakers :  Francesco Guala, Benoit Dubreuil, Christophe Heintz, Eduard Machery and Alejandro Rosas

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C.  Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics II  (Aristotle)

Chair:  Miklos Redei

Talk 1 : Aristidis Arageorgis and Chrysovalantis Stergiou :  On Particle Phenomenology Without Particle Ontology: How Much Local is Almost Local?

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Talk 2 |:  Foad Dizadji-Bahmani :  Why I am not an Everettian

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Talk 3 :  Iñaki San Pedro :  Freeing Free Will from Conspiracy

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Talk 4 :  Dunja Seselja and Christian Straßer :  Abstract Argumentation Applied to Scientific Debates

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D.  Local Epistemologies  (Omiros)

Chair:  James MacAllister

Talk 1 :  Saana Jukola:  Defending the Social View on Objectivity

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Talk 2 :  Maria Cristina Amoretti and Nicla Vassallo :  Situatedness and Objectivity : Scientific Knowledge Without Standpoints

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Talk 3 :  Endla Lõhkivi :  Is Workplace Culture Relevant for Philosophy of Science  ? : A Case Study on Physics and Humanities

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Talk 4 :  Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen :  I am Knowledge : Get Me Out of Here!  On Localism and the Universality of Science

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E.  Philosophy of Mathematics  (Solon)

Chair:  Costas Dimitracopoulos

Talk 1 |:  Demetra Christopoulou :  On A Double Aspct of Natural Numbers as Abstract Particulars and/or Universals

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Talk 2 :  Paola Cantu :  Kant and 20th Century Philosophy of Mathematics

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Talk 3 :  Mark Colyvan :  A Ricci Curvarture Tensor by Any Other Name

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DAY THREE  FRIDAY  OCTOBER 7th 2011

09.00-11.00 Parallel sessions

A.  Symposium :  New Challenges for Philosophy of Science  (Hypatia)

Chair: Maria-Carla Galavotti

Speakers :  Raffaella Campaner, Theo Kuipers, Daniel Andler, Olav Gjelsvik and Roman Frigg

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B.  Symposium :  The Social Organization of Research and the Flow of Scientific Information  (Aristotle Room)

Chair:  Rose-Mary Sargent

Speakers :  Rebecca Kukla, Justin Biddle, Torsten Wilholt, Bryce Huebner and Eric Winsberg

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C .  Formal Philosophy of Science  (Thales)

Chair:  Jesús Zamora Bonilla

Talk 1 :  Ilkka Niiniluoto :  Models, Simulation and Analogical Inference

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Talk 2 :  Petros Stefaneas :  Theories and Abstract Model Theory

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Talk 3 :  Gustavo Cevolani, Vincenzo Crupi and Roberto Festa :  More Verisimilar Banking : A Novel Analysis of the Linda Paradox

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Talk 4 :  Doukas Kapantaïs :  Formal Intuitionistic Semantics for Fitch’s Paradox 

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D.  Models and Simulations in the Life Sciences  (Hippocrates)

Chair:  Alex Broadbend

Talk 1 :  Sara Green : Exploratory Models – Reverse Engineering in Systems Biology

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Talk 2 :  Bettina Schmietow and Lorenzo Del Savio :  Cells from Computers : from Ethics to Epistemology

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Talk 3 :  Tim Räz and Raphael Scholl :  Why Do We Model ?

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Talk 4 :  Emanuele Serrelli :  Mendelian Population as  Model, Intended as a “Stable Target of Explanation”

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E.  Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics III  (Solon)

Chair:  Vassilis Karakostas

Talk 1 :  Jonathan Bain:  CPT Invariance, the Spin-Statistics Theorem and the Ontology of Relativistic Quantum Field Theories

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Talk 2 :  Karim Bschir, Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris : Decoherence : A View from Topology

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Talk 3 :  Gordon Purves :  Lies, Damn Lies and Quantum Statistics : Confirmation and False Posits.

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Talk 4 :  Mario Bacelar Valente:  Are Virtual Quanta Nothing but Formal Tools ?

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11.00-11.30   Coffee Break

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11.30-13.30 Parallel sessions

A.  Symposium:  Lawish Generalizations in the Special Sciences (Hypatia)

Chair :  Robin Hendry

Speakers :  Craig Callender and Jonathan Cohen, Julian Reiss, Daniel Steel, Andreas Hüttemann and Alexander Reutlinger

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B.  Philosophy of the Life Sciences II  (Aristotle)

Chair:  Rebecca Kukla

Talk 1 :  Johannes Martens:  Altruism, Correlation and Causality

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Talk 2 :  Till Grüne-Yanoff :  Evolutionary Game Theory, Learning Dynamics and Mechanisms.

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Talk 3 :  Marta Bertolaso :  An Apparent Circular Causality to Account for the Phenotypic Stability of the Organism: Insights From the Biology of Cancer

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Talk 4 :  Alex Broadbent :  A Theory of General Causation for Epidemiology

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C.  Philosophy of Space and Time I  (Thales)

Chair :  Mauro Dorato

Talk 1 :  Adán Sus:  The Physical Significance of Symmetries and Conservation Laws

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Talk 2 :  Erik Curiel :  On the Thermodynamical Character of Black Holes in Classical General Relativity

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Talk 3 :  F.A. Muller :  Structuralism and Space-Time

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D.  Trust and Peer Review in Science  (Hippocrates)

Chair:  Henk de Regt

Talk 1 :  Susann Wagenknecht :  Epistemic Trust : An Empirical Study in Natural Science

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Talk 2 :  Jeroen De Ridder :  Trust in Science : Nicety or Necessity ?

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Talk 3 :  Laszlo Kosolosky :  The Role of Peer Review in Science : Exploring How and Why the IPCC Blundered on the Melting Rate of Himalayan Glaciers

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E.  Theories of Theories  (Solon)

Chair:  Paul Hoyningen-Huene

Talk 1 :  Francesca Pero:  Actual Theorizing and the Model-Theoretic Account

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Talk 2 :  Rogier De Langhe :  The Problem of Kuhnian Rationality

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Talk 3 :  Chuang Liu :  A Critique of the Deflationary View on Scientific Representation

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Talk 4 :  Fabian Lausen :  Heuristic Reductionsim and the Concept of A Research Directive

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13.30-15.00  Lunch

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15.00-16.30 General Assembly Meeting (EPSA)  (Platon)

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16.30-17.00  Tea Break

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17.00-19.00 Parallel sessions

A.  Symposium:  Perspectives on Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking In and Beyond the Standard Model  (Hypatia)

Chair :  Richard Healey

Speakers :  Arianna Borrelli, Koray Karaca, Michael Stöltzner and Simon Friederich

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B.  Symposium:  Modelling Social Aspects of Science(Aristotle)

Chair : Ilkka Niiniluoto

Speakers :  Jesús Zamora Bonilla, Stephan Hartmann, Ryan Muldoon, J. McKenzie Alexander and Gerhard Schurz

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C.  Theories of Natural Kinds (Thales)

Chair:  Thomas Reydon

Talk 1 :  Elena Casetta :  Outlining a Unified Framework for the Assessment of Biodiversity

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Talk 2 :  Samuli Pöyhönen :  Should I Split or Should I Lump?  The Epistemic Tool Approach to Scientific Concept Formation

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Talk 3 :  Miles Macleod :  What Kind of Kinds are Homologies ? Studying Homology Concepts as Significant Kinds

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D.  Realism and Anti-realism II  (Platon)

Chair:  Andreas Hüttemann

Talk 1 :  Paul Hoyningen-Huene :  The Ultimate Argument against Convergent Realism and Structural Realism: The Impasse Objection

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Talk 2 :  Simon Fitzpatrick :  Doing Away with the No Miracles Argument : Realism. Empirical Success and Confirmation

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Talk 3 :  Paul Teller :  Coherent Scientific Realism

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Talk 4 :  Murat Bac :  Natural Ontological Misrepresentation and Subtleties of Neo-Realism

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E.  Formal Philosophy of Science II (Solon)

Chair :  Theo Kuipers

Talk 1 :  Franz Huber :  How to Confirm Counterfactuals

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Talk 2 :  Wolfgang Pietsch :  The Limits of Probabilism

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Talk 3 :  Peter Brössel :  The Significance of Confirmation

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20.30-22.30 Conference Dinner

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DAY FOUR SATURDAY , OCTOBER 8th  2011

09.00-11.00 Parallel sessions

A.   Symposium :  Where to Draw the Line Between Real and Unreal in Biological Knowledge  (Hypatia)

Chair:  Mark Colyvan

Speakers : Marcel Weber, Kenneth Waters, Steven French and Holger Lyre

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B.  Symposium:  Technical Functions and Artefacts in Philosophy  (Aristotle)

Chair: Chrysostomos Mantzavinos

Speakers :  Wybo Houkes, Pieter Vermaas, Mieke Boon, Thomas Reydon and Erik Weber

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C.  Epistemic Virtues and Theory Assessment  (Thales)

Chair :  Alberto Cordero

Talk 1 :  Milena Ivanova :  Can Theoretical or Intellectual Virtues Solve the Problem of Underdetermination of Theory by Data?

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Talk 2 : Kate Hodesdon and Kit Patrick :  Is Theory Choice Using Epistemic Virtues Possible ?

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Talk 3 : Harvey Siegel :  Relativism and the Strong Programme Reconsidered

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Talk 4 :  Vincent Ardourel :  Strong Underdetermination of Theories by Data : The Case of  Different Mathematical Formulations of a Scientific Theory

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D.  Pluralism and Reductionism  (Hippocrates)

Chair:  Daniel Andler

Talk 1 :  Stéphanie Ruphy :  ‘Foliated’ Pluralism : A Philosophically Robust Form of  Ontologico-Methodological Pluralism

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Talk 2 :  Robert Kowalenko :  ‘Styles of Scientific Thinking Can Kill’

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Talk 3 :  Anjan Chakravartty :  Realism about Scientific Taxonomy

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Talk 4 :  Henrik Thorén :  What Is An Interdisciplinary Problem ?

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E.  Philosophy of the Social Sciences  (Solon)

Chair :   Stephan Hartmann

Talk 1 :  Yulie Foka-Kavalieraki and Aristides Hatzis :  Economics, Evolution and the Brain :  From Rational Choice Theory to Ecological Rationality

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Talk 2 :  Thomas Uebel :  Narratives and Action Explanation

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Talk 3 :  Uskali Mäki :  On the Performance of the Performativity Thesis

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Talk 4 :  Jan Faye :  How Do We Understand in Science ?

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11.00-11.30  : Coffee Break

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11.30-13.30 Parallel sessions

A.   Symposium :  Emotion in Scientific Reasoning  (Hypatia)

Chair : Hanne Andersen

Speakers :  James MacAllister, Jeff Kochan, Lisa Osbeck, Nancy Nersessian and Sabine Roeser

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B.  Ontology and Structural Realism (Aristotle)

Chair:   Antigone Nounou

Talk 1 by Federico Laudisa :   Can there be a Truly ‘Ontological’ Scientific Naturalism ?

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Talk 2 :  Mauro Dorato :  How to Combine (And Not to Combine) Physics and Metaphysics 

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Talk 3 :  Vincent Lam and Christian Wüthrich :  No Categorical Support for Radical Ontic Structural Realism

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Talk 4 :  Kerry Mckenzie :  ‘Humean Structuralism’ About Laws

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C.  Theories of Natural Selection  (Thales)

Chair:  Miles Macleod

Talk 1 :  Jonathan Everett :  Evolutionary Theory and Thermodynamics : The Role of Statistics

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Talk 2 :  David Crawford :  Probability Measures and Biological Fitness

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Talk 3 : Fridolin Gross and Cecilia Nardini :  Is Natural Selection A Mechanism ?

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Talk 4 :  Francis Cartieri :  Is Neo-Darwinism in Crisis ? Lamarck and Epigenetic Inheritance

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D.  Reduction and Idealization in the Physical Sciences (Hippocrates)

Chair :  Mauricio Suarez

Talk 1 : Nazim Bouatta and Jeremy Butterfield :  Emergence and Reduction Combined in Infinite Systems

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Talk 2 :  Mathias Frisch :  Incantations of  ‘Causation’  and Other Philosophical Sins :  Or Rehabilitating Ritz

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Talk 3 :  Ave Mets :  Measurement Theory, Nomological Machines and MeasurementUncertainties (in Classical Physics)

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Talk 4 :  Iulian Toader :  The Dappling Effects of Idealization

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E.  Philosophy of Space and Time II  (Solon)

Chair:  Vassilis Sakellariou

Talk 1 :  Lisa Leininger :  Presentism, Eternalism and the Possibility of Temporal Becoming

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Talk 2 :  Daniel Wohlfarth :  A New View of “Fundamentality” for Time Asymmetries inModern Physics

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Talk 3 :  Henrik Zinkernagel :  A Critical Note on Time in the Multiverse 

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Talk4 :  Matt Farr :  On the Status of Temporal Unidirectionality in Physics

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13.30-14.30  Lunch

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14.30-16.00 Springer Lecture in the Philosophy of Science  (Vergina)

Chair: Martin Carrier

Nancy Cartwright (LSE)  :  Evidence, Argument and Mixed Methods

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16.00-16.30 Closing Ceremony

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