The Epistemology of Experimental Discovery

June 10, 2025
Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol

Fry Building G.13
Fry Building G.13, Woodland Rd
Bristol BS8 1UG
United Kingdom

This will be an accessible event, including organized related activities

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Stockholm University
Aachen University of Technology
University of Bristol
Aarhus University

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University of Bristol

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This workshop explores philosophical questions related to the epistemology of experimental discovery: from the role of AI in contemporary scientific discoveries to trade-offs in scientific experimentation; from experimentation in the era of Big Science to model-agnostic searches in high energy physics. 

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome

09:30 – 11:00 Samuel Schindler - AI and the discovery of new things

Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:45 Emanuele Ratti - Bioinformatics as an Experimental Discipline

Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 Siska de Baerdemaeker - The pursuitworthiness of Big Science experiments

Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:45 Michael Krämer - Model-Agnostic Searches for New Phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider

18:00 Pub

19:30 Dinner

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