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Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 December The Department of Philosophy will host the 12th edition of the annual Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop.

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Thursday 5.12

11.10 Coffee and welcome

11.25-12.40 James Fraser (IHPST Paris)
Laws of Nature on Different Scales

Lunch

14-15.15 Michael Miller (Univ. of Toronto)
Precision and Determinacy

15.25-16.40 Luna de Souter (Univ. of Bergen)
Restoring Reductiveness in Regularity Theories of Causation

16.50-18.05 Sam Fletcher (Oxford Univ.)
The Limits of Approximation

Friday 6.12

9.45 Coffee

10-11.15 Daniele Molinini (Univ. of Bologna)
Mapping‑Based Accounts of Applicability and Converse Applications

11.25-12.40 Karen Crowther (Univ. of Oslo)
Dumb holes: Universality or Analogy?

Lunch

14-15.15 Monica Solomon (Bilkent Univ.)
The Road Less Traveled to the Distinction between Absolute and Relative Motion: Newton’s De Motu manuscripts

15.30-16.45 Richard Dawid (Univ. of Stockholm)
Unification and Surprise: How Unification gets confirmatory

17. End of workshop

Titles and abstracts (pdf) 
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