The 2013 Mid-Term Postgraduate conference in Logic and Philosophy of Science will be held in Urbino on 29-30-31 May 2013.
\nThe conference \;will be organized by the Italian Society \; for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS)\, \;
Further \;information can be found at \;
The conference will host six different sessions\, namely:
\nThere will not be parallel sessions. Each session will be chaired by the following renown international scholars: \;
\nHistory and Philosophy of Physics
\nChair: Mauro Dorato (University of Rome 3)
\nLogic and Philosophy of Logic
\nChair: Francesco Paoli (University of Cagliari)
\nPhilosophy of Biology
\nChair: CorradoSinigaglia (University of Milan)
\nPhilosophy of Language and Mind
\nChair: Marco Giunti (University of Cagliari)
\nHistory and Philosophy of Mathematics
\nChair: Mario Piazza (University of Chieti-Pescara)
\nPhilosophy of Social Sciences
\nChair: Enzo Di Nuoscio (Unimol) and Albertina Oliverio (University of Chieti-Pescara)
\nEach session will host four different talks.
\nFurther information can be found at \;www.silfs.net \;and writing to Vincenzo Fano at \;vincenzo.fano@uniurb.it \;or to Pierluigi Graziani at \;pierluigi.graziani@uniurb.it
\nScientific Committee: Mauro Dorato\, Mauro Ceruti\, Pierluigi Minari\, Roberto Giuntini\, Francesco Paoli\, Massimo Marraffa\, Massimiliano Carrara\, Federico Laudisa\, Roberto Arpaia\, Matteo Morganti\, Enzo Di Nuoscio\, Albertina Oliverio\, Gino Tarozzi\, Mario Alai\, Corrado Sinigaglia\, Marco Giunti and Isabella Tassani
\nOrganizing Committee: Mario Alai\, Stefano Bordoni\, Claudio Calosi\, Vincenzo Fano\, Pierluigi Graziani\, Sara Matera\, Massimo Sangoi\, Isabella Tassani.
\nP R O G R A M M E
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\n09:00 \;Opening
\nPhilosophy of Social Sciences \;&ndash\; Antonio Rainone (University of Naples "L'Orientale")
\n09:30 \;Leonardo Caffo (University of Turin) - \;From Moral Biology to Social Ontology
\n10:15 \;Corrado Matta \; (Stockholm University) - \;Troubles for Interpretivism: a Case from Educational Research
\n11:00 \;break
\n11:10 \;Carlo Martini \; (Finnish Centre of Excellencein the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)- \;Measurement in economics: Subjective\, but not Arbitrary
\n11:55 \;Giuliana Gerace (University of Pavia) - \;Emergence and Persistence of social norms: a Material-Based Account
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\nPhilosophy of Language and Mind \; \;&ndash\; Marco Giunti (Univ. of Cagliari)
\n15:00 \;Alfredo Tommasetta (University of Bergamo) - \;Chalmer&rsquo\;s 2D Argument: what Materialists (usually) deny but should not
\n15:45 \;Matthew McKeever (Arché\;/ St Andrews ) - \;Indefinite descriptions and arbitrary reference
\n16:30 \;break
\n16:40 \;Simone Pinna (University of Cagliari) \; - \;A possible dynamical explanation of the cardinal principle
\n17:25 \;Massimo Sangoi (University of Urbino) - \;Metaphor and the semantic web
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\n\nLogic and Philosophy of Logic \;&ndash\; Francesco Paoli (Univ. of Cagliari)
\n09:00 \;Paolo Pistone (University of Rome 3) - \;Second order logic: the Quinean critic and proof-theory
\n09:45 \;Luisa Peruzzi (University of Florence) - \;Relevant semantics for combinatory logic and lambda calculus
\n10:30 \;break
\n10:40 \;Giuseppe Sergioli (University of Cagliari) - \;Entanglement and holistic structures in quantum computation
\n11:25 \;GiacomoTurbanti (University of Pisa) - \;Towards perspectival \;lattices
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\nHistory and Philosophy of Mathematics \; \;&ndash\; Mario Piazza (Univ. of Chieti-Pescara)
\n15:00 \;Georg Schiemer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) - \;Invariants and Mathematical Structuralism
\n15:45 \;Claudio Ternullo (Kurt Gö\;del Research Center\, Vienna) - \;Concept Expansion And Set Theory
\n16:30 \;break
\n16:40 \;Daniele Molinini (Universitat de Barcelona) - \;Towards A New\, Pluralist and Pragmatic\, Approach To Mathematical Explanation(s)
\n17:25 \;Marianna Antonutti (University of Bristol) - \;Human Effective Computability and Absolute Indecidibility
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\n\nPhilosophy of Biology \; \;&ndash\; Corrado Sinigaglia (Univ. of Milan)
\n09:00 \;Gabriele Ferretti (University of Urbino) - \;Neurophenomenology and Mirror phenomena
\n09:45 \;Adam P. Kubiak (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University) and Rafal Wodzisz (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin ) - \;Classification Practice in Biology in the Light of Essentialists Revival in Philosophy of Biology
\n10:30 \;break
\n10:40 \;Marco Nathan (University of Denver) - \;Biological Unification without Theoretical Reduction
\n11:25 \;Marco Tamborini (Philosophisches Seminar der Ruprecht-Karls-Universitä\;t Heidelberg) - \;Models and Data: the Paleobiological Reconstruction of Biodiversity.
\n\nHistory and Philosophy of Physics \; \;&ndash\; Mauro Dorato (Univ. of Rome 3)
\n15:00 \;Samuele Iaquinto (State University of Milan) - \; \;Confirmation Holism \, Bahesian Holism and Epistemic Coeherentism
\n15:45 \;Karim Bschir (ETH Zurich) - \;The Concept of Potentiality \; in Currents Debates in Philosophy of Nature
\n16:30 \;break
\n16:40 \;Juliusz Doboszewski (Jagiellonian University) - \;Can we learn about the present from the topology of a spacetime?
\n17:25 \;Tommaso Panajoli (University of Bologna) - \; \;Symmetry and Invariance: artistic and scientific developments of the concept of symmetry before modern mathematics
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