2014 Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosphy of Science

Speakers

- Fredrik Andersen (CauSci, NMBU, Norway) and Johan Arnt Myrstad (University of Nordland, Norway): Why physics hasn't settled the score on spacetime

- Martin M Bentzen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark): The limits of logic-based inherent safety for social robots

- Hanoch Ben-Yami (Central European University, Hungary): Absolute distant simultaneity in Special Relativity

- Benjamin Bewersdorf (Groningen University, The Netherlands): Total evidence, uncertainty and a priori beliefs

- Vincenzo Crupi (University of Turin, Italy and MCMP Munich, Germany) and Vittorio Girotto (University IUAV of Venice): Models of rationality and the psychology of reasoning: from is to ought, and back

- Emmanuel Genot (Lund University, Sweden): The fall of Reichenbach

- Sarah Hitchen (Lancaster University, U.K.): Adapting our language: The problem (?) of teleological language in the Philosophy of Biology

- Ingvar Johansson (Umeå University, Sweden): The problem of temporal constancy

- Lars-Göran Johansson (Uppsala University, Sweden): The measurement problem, quantisation and collapse

- Alex Kaiserman (University of Oxford, U.K.): Normative causation

- Anita Leirfall (University of Bergen, Norway, and Norwegian University of Life Sciences): Kant’s grounding of space and its relation to Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces

- Carlo Martini (University of Helsinki, Finland): The selection of interdisciplinary expertise at the boundaries of trust

- George Masterton (Lund University, Sweden): The only probability is verbal probability

- Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham, U.K., and NMBU, Norway) and Rani Lill Anjum (NMBU, Norway): Understanding causation by way of failure

- Michuri Nagatsu (University of Helsinki, Finland): Inferences in and from the lab: How we should increase external validity of behavioural experiments, and how we shouldn't

- Rune Nyrup (Durham University, U.K.): Pursuing and accepting hypotheses: a Peircean view of IBE

- Erik J Olsson (Lund University, Sweden) and Staffan Angere (Lund University, Sweden): Network density and group competence in scientific communication

- J. Brian Pitts (University of Cambridge, U.K.): Historical and philosophical insights about General Relativity and space-time from particle physics

- Rosa W Runhardt (London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.): A new take on causal mechanisms in social contexts: manipulability theory’s demands for mechanistic reasoning

- Henning Strandin (Stockholm University, Sweden): Specificity and redundant causation

- Frank Zenker (Lund University, Sweden) and Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden): Communication, rationality, and conceptual changes in scientific theories    

Talks are followed by a ten minute peer-commentary and a 20 minute group discussion. Abstracts are available at: https://sites.google.com/site/nnpscience/home/meetings  

Registration

To participate in the 2014 NNPS meeting, please register by 20 March 2014 at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QbOqVypBeaEyZzrLBVp_Khct6uBeHZj9PvaWQXEvjdo/viewform  

Organizer    

Frank Zenker
Department of Philosophy & Cognitive Science
Kungshuset, Lundagård,
222 22 Lund,
Sweden
http://www.fil.lu.se/person/FrankZenker