Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop

Thursday 19.10

9.45 Coffee & welcome
 
10 - 11 Cyrille Imbert (Archives Poincaré, CNRS, Université de Lorraine)
The Cognitive and Social Process of Computing Pseudo-Random Numbers for Scientific Applications: Ingredients for a Reliability Crisis
 
11.10 - 12.10 Elena Popa (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
Causality, Evidence, and Local Psychiatric Knowledge: A Case for Pluralism
 
Lunch
 
13.30 - 14.15 Henrik Røed Sherling (Cambridge) & Benjamin Chin-Yee (Cambridge)
Clinical Communication: A Model for Scientific Assertion?
 
14.20 - 15.05 Andrei Marasoiu (Bucharest)
Representation and design in network models of category deficits
 
Coffee break
 
15.30 - 16.15 Benedetta Spigola (Lisbon)
What is it like to be a conservation law? Between laws and principles
 
16.20 - 17.20 Sam Schindler (Aarhus)
Two types of discovery: Nobel meets Kuhn 

Friday 20.10

9.15 Coffee
 
9.30 - 10.30 Veli-Pekka Parkkinen (Bergen)
Unique identifiability assumptions in methods and philosophy of causal enquiry
 
10.40 - 11.40 Rose Trappes (Exeter)
Behaviour as Disposition or Interaction
 
Break
 
12 - 12.45 Johannes Nyström (Stockholm)
Predictive success and theoretical stability: on the soundness of the two-variable no-miracles argument
 
Lunch
 
14.00 - 14.45 Lorenzo Casini (Lucca/LMU)
High-level Causation and Causal Inference (w/ A. Moneta)
 
14.50 - 15.50 Daniel Kostic (Leiden)
Pragmatics for Explainable AI
 
16.00 - 16.45 Aditya Jha (Cambridge)
On the continuum fallacy: is temperature a continuous function?
 
16.45 End of conference