Unification and Coherence

The Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS) kindly invites you to attend the upcoming one-day workshop 'Unification and Coherence' which will take place at Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf (Building: 16.11, Floor: 1, Sitzungssaal 1), January 16, 2014.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars who work on the topics of unification and/or coherence in the hope of fostering research at the intersection of these two fields.

Invited Speakers:

Dennis Dieks (Utrecht) - TBA
Victor Gijsbers (Leiden) - 'Pierre Duhem, Natural Classification and Unification'
Ilkka Niiniluoto (Helsinki) - 'Consilience and Abductive Confirmation'
Jonah Schupbach (Utah) - 'Isolating the Effects of Coherence'
Mark Siebel (Oldenburg) - 'Coherence and Consistency'

Anybody wishing to attend the workshop please send a notification to:

[email protected]

The workshop program (which includes some contributed talks) will soon be uploaded on the DCLPS website:

http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/dclps/

The workshop is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), project B04 'A Frame-theoretic Investigation of Unification and Reduction in Scientific Theories' of the collaborative research centre CRC 991: The Structure of Representations in Language Cognition, and Science.

We look forward to welcoming you to the workshop.