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IV MADRID WORKSHOP ON NEW TRENDS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE INFERENTIALISM IN EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE UNED, Madrid, November 11-13, 2013 Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales Sala “Angel Sáez Torrecilla”. Senda del Rey, 11. Madrid (Map; bus 46, stop “Senda del Rey” –from “Sevilla”; or “Av. Séneca –from “Moncloa”)
PROGRAMME Monday, nov 11th 9:15 Registration 9:30 Presentation 9:45 John Norton (University of Pittsburgh) "A Material Dissolution of the Problem of Induction" 11:00 Coffee break 11:30 John Cantwell (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm). “An Inferentialist Analysis of Defeasible Inference” 12:15 Ioannis Votsis (University of Duesseldorf). “An Inferentialist Account of Confirmation” 13:00 Samuel C. Fletcher (University of California Irvine). “Inference, Stability, and Meaning in Scientific Models” 13:45 Lunch 16:00 Julian Reiss (Durham University) Two Approaches to Reasoning from Evidence Or What Econometrics Can Learn from Biomedical Research 17:15 Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College) and Mark Risjord (Emory University). “Explanation, Expressivism, and Inferentialism.” 18:00 End of session Tuesday, nov 12th 9:15 Lorenzo Casini and Andreas Holger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) "An Inferential Account of Explanatory Counterfactuals" 10:00 Xavier de Donato (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) "An Inferential Account of Cognitive Attitudes and Scientific Practice” 11:15 Coffee break 11:45 Marion Vorms (IHPST, Paris) "Theories and their versions: logical equivalence, inferential differences" 13:00 Jaakko Kuorikoski and Samuli Pöyhönen (University of Helsinki). “The epistemic role of virtual experiments – an inferentialist account” 13:45 Lunch 16:00 Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University) "Meaning, Truth and Representation: Sellars, Rorty and Pragmatism Today." 17:15 End of session Wednesday, nov 13th 9:15 Lilia Gurova (New Bulgarian University). “Entitling explanatory relations” 10:00 Jesús Zamora Bonilla y Javier González de Prado (UNED). “Commitment, entitlement, and scientific inference” 11:15 Coffee break 11:45 Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense/ Institute of Philosophy, London) "Deflationary Representation, Inference, and Practice" 13:00 Elena Popa (Central European University, Budapest). “Woodward’s Manipulability Theory and Inferentialism about Causality” 13:45 Lunch 16:00 José Zalabardo (University College London) “The Logical Inferentialism of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus” 17:15 End of workshop Sponsored by the Spanish govt. research Projects FFI2011-23267 (“Inferentialism as social epistemology”) and FFI2011-29834-C03-01("Inference, causality and science") For more information: jpzb@fsof.uned.es Attendance is free, no inscription needed, but please send us an email if you are interested in participating. Previous workshops:
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