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:

New Trends in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences I
New Trends in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences II

New Trends in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences III