Heuristic Reasoning

Heuristic Reasoning

Workshop - June 13-­15 2013

Villa Mirafiori, Room II

Via Carlo Fea, 2 – Rome

Thursday 13 June

15:30 – 15:45   Opening
15:45 – 16:30   D. Seselja and C. Strasser (Ghent University)  Scientific Disagreement and Epistemic Tolerance
16:30 – 17:00   Discussion
Coffee Break    17:15 – 18:00   A. Grandori (Bocconi University - Milan)  Rational Heuristics for Economic Discovery
18:00 – 18:30   Discussion
chairman: L. Magnani (University of Pavia) 

Friday 14 June

10:00 – 10:45   E. Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome)     Dynamic Generation of Hypotheses: Mandelbrot, Soros and far-from-equilibrium
10:45 – 11:15   Discussion
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15   T. Nickles (University of Nevada - Reno)     Heuristic Appraisal at the Frontier of Research
12:15 – 12:45   Discussion
chairman: D. Gillies (University College London)   15:00 – 15:45   R. De Langhe (TILPS - Tilburg University)   Kuhnian Rationality
15:45 – 16:15   Discussion
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:15   C. Cellucci (Sapienza University of Rome)    Towards a Logic of Discovery
17:15 – 17:45   Discussion
chairman: T. Nickles (University of Nevada - Reno)
20:30 social dinner

Saturday 15 June

10:00 – 10:45   L. Magnani (University of Pavia)                   Are Heuristics Knowledge Enhancing?   Abduction, Models, and Fictions in Science 
10:45 – 11:15   Discussion
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15   D. Gillies (University College London)          Why do scientific revolutions begin?
12:15 – 12:45   Discussion chairman: M. Capozzi (Sapienza University of Rome)  

*No registration*

*Open to the public*  

organization and info: Emiliano Ippoliti - [email protected]