Annual Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop

2024

• Richard Dawid (Stockholm). Unification and Surprise: How Unification gets confirmatory

• Jingyi Wu (LSE). Rigor Capture

• Michael Miller (Toronto). Precision and Determinacy

• Luna de Souter (Bergen). Restoring Reductiveness in Regularity Theories of Causation

• Sam Flecther (Oxford). The Limits of Approximation

• Daniele Molinini (Bologna). Mapping‑Based Accounts of Applicability and Converse Applications

• Karen Crowther (Oslo). Why do we want a theory of quantum gravity?

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

• James Fraser (IHPST Paris) Laws of Nature on Different Scales

2023

• Sam Schindler (Aarhus): Two types of discovery: Nobel meets Kuhn

• Elena Popa (Krakow, Jagiellonian Univ.): Causality, Evidence, and Local Psychiatric Knowledge: A Case for Pluralism 

• Rose Trappes (Exeter): Behaviour as Disposition or Interaction 

• Veli Pekka Parkkinen (Bergen): Unique identifiability assumptions in methods and philosophy of causal enquiry. 

• Daniel Kostic (Leiden): Pragmatics for Explainable AI

• Cyrille Imbert (Univ. Lorraine): The Cognitive and Social Process of Computing Pseudo-Random Numbers for Scientific Applications: Ingredients for a Reliability Crisis

• Lorenzo Casini (Lucca/LMU): High-level Causation and Causal Inference (w/ A. Moneta) 

• Henrik Røed Sherling (Cambridge) & Benjamin Chin-Yee (Cambridge): Clinical Communication: A Model for Scientific Assertion? 
• Benedetta Spigola (Lisbon): What is it like to be a conservation law? Between laws and principles 
• Johannes Nyström (Stockholm): Predictive success and theoretical stability: on the soundness of the two-variable no-miracles argument 
• Aditya Jha (Cambridge): On the Continuum Fallacy: Is Temperature a Continuous Function?
• Andrei Marasoiu (Bucharest): Representation and design in network models of category deficits 

2022

• Chris Smeenk (Univ. of Western Ontario): Fuzzy Modularity and Crucial Simulations (Joint work with Marie Gueguen, Rennes)
• Nic Fillion (Simon Fraser Univ.): The argument view of computer simulations done right
• Ana-Maria Cretu (Bristol Univ.): Human Computers as Instruments 
• Elay Shech (Auburn Univ.): Are Mesoscale Structures Natural Kinds? Reconsidering Batterman’s Middle Way
• Vincent Ardourel (IHPST Paris): The reduction of hydrodynamics and singular limits
• Siska de Baerdemaeker (Stockholm Univ.): Into the Unknown. Exploring Dark Matter with Stellar Streams
• Alex Franklin (King's College London): Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent. How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge
   

2021

• Samir Okasha (Bristol): Is there a Bayesian justification of hypothetico-deductive inference? (Joint work with Karim Thebault, Bristol)
• Jessica Wilson (Toronto): In Defense of Countabilism (Joint work with David Builes, Princeton)
• Alastair Wilson (Birmingham): Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy (Joint work with Katie Robertson, Birmingham)
• Chris Pincock (Ohio State Univ.): Defending Selective Scientific Realism
   

2020

• Roman Frigg (LSE): Modelling Nature: the DEKI Account (Talk based on joint work with James Nguyen, LSE)
• Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest): Baconianism and Newtonianism: a history (and philosophy) of shifting historiographic categories
• Jo Wolff (Edinburgh): Making concepts measurable
• Richard Dawid (Stockholm): How postmodern is cosmic inflation? (Based on joint work with Casey McCoy, Yonsei Univ.)
• Karim Thebault (Bristol): Poincaré, Dark Energy, and the Deadly Robots of Krikkit (Based on work with Sean Gryb, Groningen)
• Karen Crowther (Oslo): The Role of Singularities in the Search for Quantum Gravity (Joint work with Sebastian De Haro, Amsterdam)
   

2019 

• Denis Walsh (Toronto): The Developmental Imperative
• James Ladyman (Bristol): What if anything is fundamental about physics?
• Patricia Palacios (Salzburg): Intertheoretic Reduction in Physics Beyond the Nagelian Model
• Axel Gelfert (Berlin): Explanation and Exploration in the Science of Pattern Formation
• Laura Franklin-Hall (NYU): Why are some kinds historical and others not?

2018

• P. Kyle Stanford (UC Irvine): A Difference that Makes a Difference: Howard Stein on Realism, Instrumentalism, and Intellectually Nourishing Snacks
• Kirsten Walsh (Nottingham): Inventing Units of Measurement: Causal Reasoning in Newton's Optics
• Dirk Schlimm (McGill): Towards a cognitive and pragmatic account of notations for propositional logic
• Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney and the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich): Analogical Reasoning via Mathematical Models
• Adrian Curie (Cambridge): How are moa like sheep? Pursuit and value in science
• Julie Zahle (Bergen): Data, Epistemic Values, and Multiple Methods in Case Study Research
• Alan Baker (Swarthmore): Mapping Mathematics to the World

2017

• Stathis Psillos (Univ. of Athens): Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature
• Alexander Bird (Univ. of Bristol): Is there meta-scientific knowledge? Against both the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction
• Gordon Belot (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Gravity and GRACE: Does Underdetermination Undermine Objectivity?
• Laura Ruetsche (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Renormalization Group Realism: An Unduly Skeptical Review
• Michael Baumgartner (Univ. of Geneva / Univ. of Bergen): Boolean difference-making: A modern regularity theory of causation
• Eleanor Knox (King's College London): Spacetime Functionalism
   

2016

• Carl Hoefer (ICREA / Barcelona): Current Great Theory Realism
• Stephanie Ruphy (Grenoble): Pluralist challenges to a science-based metaphysics
• Jamie Tappenden (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor): Frege, Carl Snell and Romanticism; Fruitful Concepts and the 'Organic/Mechanical' Distinction
• Sam Schindler (Aarhus): Prediction and testability
• James Conant (Chicago): Thomas Kuhn on Problems and Puzzles
   

2015

• Mark Steiner (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem): The Silent Revolution of Wittgenstein in the Philosophy of Mathematics, 1937
• Catherine Wilson (York Univ. UK): The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness: Scientific Explanation and Philosophical Ineffability
• Juha Saatsi (Leeds Univ.): Emergence and Explanation
• Mary Leng (York Univ.): Mathematical Realism and Naturalism
• Anjan Chakravartty (Notre Dame Univ.): Property Ontology in Fundamental Physics
• Øystein Linnebo (Univ. of Oslo): Mathematics and Inference to the Best Explanation

2014

• Robert Batterman (Pittsburgh): Minimal Model Explanations 
• Michael Moreau (Tromsø): Mr. Fit, Mr. Simplicity and Mr. Scope: from Social Choice to Theory Choice in Science
• Dennis Dieks (Utrecht): Emergence, Reduction, Underdetermination and Explanation in Recent Quantum Gravity Research 
• Mauricio Suarez (London / Madrid): Propensities, Chances, and Experimental Statistics 
• Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh): Fictionalism about Neural Representations 
• Anouk Barberousse (Lille / Paris): Bayesian Methods in Climate Modeling
   

2013

• Margaret Morrison (Univ. of Toronto): Inconsistent Models: Problems and Perspectives
• Wendy Parker (Durham Univ., UK): Simulation, Measurement & the Construction of Global Climate Datasets
• Michal Walicki (Univ. of Bergen, Institute of Informatics): The holism of truth and paradox (joint work with Sjur Dyrkolbotn)
• Alexander Paseau (Oxford Univ.): Knowledge of Mathematics Without Proof
• Rani L. Anjum (Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences UMB) and Stephen Mumford (Durham): Causation, Powers and Probability (joint work)
• Colin Howson (LSE / Toronto): The Importance of Being Bayesian