2 – 3 Jul 2016, 09:30, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
The goal of this first international conference is to explore methodological problems and prospects of perspectival modelling across the sciences. What challenges does the integration of data coming from incompatible models pose? And what are the prospects of a pluralistic approach to perspectival modelling?
Keynote speakers:
- Theo Arabatzis
- Anjan Chakravartty
- David Danks
- Mary Morgan
- Margaret Morrison
- Anya Plutynski
- Friedrich Steinle
- Ken Waters
Programme for Saturday 2nd July:
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| 09.30–10.45 | Anjan Chakravartty Perspectivism in Science: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
| 10.50–12.05 | Margaret Morrison Models and Methodology: More Problems for Perspectival Realism |
| Coffee Break | |
| 12.10–13.25 | David Danks Cognitive and formal bases of perspectival models |
| 13.30–14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30–15.45 | Anya Plutynski Cancer Modelling and the Advantages and Limitations of Multiple Perspectives |
| Coffee Break | |
| 15.50–17.05 | Mary Morgan Measuring Instruments for Multiple Perspectives |
| 17.10–18.25 | Ken Waters Two Senses of Integration |
Programme for Sunday 3rd July:
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| Invited Talks | |
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| 9.30–10.45 | Friedrich Steinle Concept dynamics and the realism question |
| Coffee Break | |
| 11.15-12.30 | Theodore Arabatzis Perspectival realism about what? Tracking the electron across shifting theoretical perspectives |
| 12.30–14.30 | Lunch |
| Contributed papers for the session on Perspectivism across the Sciences. Methodological Challenges and Prospects |
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| 14.30–15.10 | Arianna Borrelli The emergence of “particle resonances”: concept formation and the materiality of theory |
| 15.10–15.50 | Casey McCoy Epistemic Justification and Luck in Inflationary Cosmology |
| 15.50–16.30 | Wayne Myrvold What Happened to Phlogiston? Reconsidering the Chemical “Revolution” |
| Coffee break | |
| 16.50–17.30 | Johanna Wolff Why did additivity cease to be the central element in the foundations of measurement? |
| 17.30–18.10 | Melinda Fagan The operon model and scientific explanation |
| 18.30 | Buffet Dinner reception at the Informatics Forum open to speakers and Attendees |