EENPS 2018

Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
June 20-22, 2018

Conference program

June 20 – Wednesday

 

08:30-09:50      Registration (G127)

10:00-10:15      Conference Opening

 

10:15-11:15      Vincenzo Crupi: Rationality and Reasoning Research: A Guide for the Perplexed(Keynote lecture) 

                            Chair: Lilia Gurova (G127)

 

11:15-13:30      Lunch break

 

	A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Jaana Eigi	B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G140) Chair: Özlem Yılmaz	C: Philosophy of Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (G236) Chair: Miloš Kosterec
13:30-14:00	Gustavo Cevolani: Probability, truthlikeness, and two paradoxes of rational belief	María Ferreira Ruiz & Mariana Córdoba: Biological information – what was the problem again?	Nina A. Atanasova: Virtual Morris Water Maze: The Independent Life of an Experimental System
14:00-14:30	Borut Trpin: A Problem for Jeffrey Conditionalizers	Atoosa Kasirzadeh: The explanatory role of cellular automata models in biology	Blazej Skrzypulec: Nonclassical Mereology of Odours

 

14:30-15:00      Coffee break (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)

 

 

	A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Lilia Gurova	D: Philosophy of Social Sciences (G140) Chair: Juraj Halas
15:00-15:30	Maria Panagiotatou: ‘Local realism’ and the misconceptions about scientific realism	Magdalena Małecka: The normative theory of decision making in economics. A philosophical evaluation.
15:30-16:00	Ladislav Kvasz: Instrumental Realism	Monika Foltyn-Zarychta: Valuing non-market goods for intergenerational investments – explicit moral judgements in willingness to pay and willingness to accept compensation

 

16:00-16:30      Coffee break (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)

 

	A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Daniel Kostić	E: History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (G140) Chair: Daniela Glavaničová
16:30-17:00	Demetris Portides: Abstraction in Scientific Modeling	Hakob Barseghyan, Gregory Rupik & Patrick Fraser: Re-integrating HPS: Scientonomy as a Missing Link
17:00-17:30	Martin Zach: Scientific representation: Resituating the similarity account	Eden Smith: Examining the Structured Uses of Concepts as Tools: Converging Insights

 

17:30-19:30      Open Air Reception (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)

 

June 21 – Thursday

 

09:30-10:30      Barbara Osimani: Games in Science: Reliability, Reproducibility, and Reputation(Keynote lecture)

                            Chair: Lukáš Bielik (G127)

 

10:30-11:00      Coffee break (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)

 

	B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G127) Chair: Juraj Halas	C: Philosophy of Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (G140) Chair: Nina A. Atanasova	E: History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (G236) Chair: Daniela Glavaničová
11:00-11:30	Cristian Ariel López & Manuel Herrera Aros: Getting physical possibility straight: what makes an event physically possible?	Mario Günther: Interventionist Mental Causation and the Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience	Jaana Eigi: Philosophy of Science and Inductive Risk
11:30-12:00	Manuel Herrera Aros: Physical Causation in General Relativity	Marek Pokropski: Phenomenology and multilevel mechanistic explanations in cognitive sciences	Francesca Biagioli & Flavia Padovani: From Mathematical to Physical Coordination and Back. Why Mathematical Coordination Can Be More Entangled than it Looks Like.

 

12:00-14:00      Lunch break

 

	A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Borut Trpin	B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G140) Chair: Lilia Gurova	A: General Philosophy of Science (G236) Chair: Miloš Kosterec
14:00-14:30	Luca Tambolo: What, if anything, does counterfactual history teach us about the contingency of science?	Özlem Yılmaz: What is ‘Individual Plant’?	Vladimir Drekalović: About the (im)perfection of the best mathematical explanations in science - the cicada case versus the Königsberg bridge case
14:30-15:00	Matthew Baxendale: Levels of Organization in Scientific Practice: Epistemic Tools for System Building	Guglielmo Militello: Functional Integration in the Endosymbiotic Origin of Mitochondria	Mihail – Petrişor Ivan: Poincaré’s one conventionalism

 

15:00-15:30      Coffee break (Atrium – Faculty of Arts)

 

	A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Duško Prelević	B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G140) Chair: Manuel Herrera Aros
15:30-16:00	Daniel Kostić: Minimal structure explanations, scientific understanding and explanatory depth	Sebastian Fortin & Jesús Alberto Jaimes Arriaga: The problem of the 3N dimensions in Quantum Mechanics: a chemical approach
16:00-16:30	Richard David-Rus: Defending non-explanatory understanding: the case of possible explanations	Alfio Zambon & Fiorela Alassia: About the limits of the chemical periodic system

 

16:30-18:30      EENPS meeting (G127)

 

 

 June 22 – Friday

 

 

	A: General Philosophy of Science (G127) Chair: Richard David-Rus	D: Philosophy of Social Sciences (G140) Chair: Monika Foltyn-Zarychta	E: History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (G241) Chair: Eden Smith
09:30-10:00	Stefan Petkov: In defence of veridicality, pragmatic truth and scientific understanding	Akos Sivado: Thinking through Kinds: the Ontological Turn meets Interpretive Social Science	Michele Luchetti: Constituting frequency changes in genetic populations via approximation and stability: Understanding the role of the Hardy-Weinberg principle through its epistemic history
10:00-10:30	Duško Prelević: Kuhn's Incommensurability Thesis: Good Examples Still to Be Found	Mariusz Maziarz: The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of causal inferences in economics	Mariana Córdoba & María Ferreira Ruiz: When science becomes a problem. Identity, biology and politics
10:30-11:00		Radim Chvaja: Memetics as Pseudoscience	Elena Sinelnikova: Philosophy of Science in Russia: the St. Petersburg Philosophical Society (1897-1923)

 

11:00-11:30  Coffee break

 

	B: Philosophy of Natural Sciences (G127) Chair: Martin Zach	A: General Philosophy of Science (G140) Chair: Lukáš Bielik
11:30-12:00	Vlasta Sikimic: Argumentative structures in biology: a study of pathogen discoveries	Kertész Gergely: Doubting the argument from constraining effects against causal closure
12:00-12:30	Damian Luty: Non-individuals and Structural Reconceptualization of Objects in Spacetime Structuralism	Anton Donchev & Mila Marinova: The Influence of Prior Probabilities on Judgments about Explanatory Power

 

12:30         Conference Closing (G127)