(Online) Methodologies for the Use of History in Philosophy

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This event aims to open interdisciplinary dialogue on how history is employed across philosophical domains, and what methodological and epistemic roles such uses play.

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November 13, 2025

• [16:00-17:30 CET ∥ 09:00-10:30 MX]  Keynote Talk: “Newton’s Metaphysics in Practice”
  Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)
• [17:30-18:20 CET ∥ 10:30-11:20 MX]  “Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician–Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy”
  Anna Gadignani (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
  
  
• [18:20-18:30 CET ∥ 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK
  
  
• [18:30-19:20 CET∥ 11:30-12:20 MX]  “Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison”
  Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
• [19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 -13:10 MX]  “A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic”
  Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
  
  
• [20:10 -20:20CET ∥ 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK

• [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX]  "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem"
  Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
• [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective"
  Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)

November 14, 2025

• [15:30-17:00 CET ∥ 08:30-10:00 MX]  Keynote Talk: “Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective.”
  Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu)
• [17:00-17:50 CET ∥ 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948"
  Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut)
  
  
• [17:50-18:00 CET ∥ 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK

• [18:00-18:50 CET∥ 11:00-11:50 MX]  “Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering”
  Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)
• [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 -12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive"
  Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University)

• [19:40 -19:50CET ∥ 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK
  
  
• [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes"
  Dubian Cañas. 
• [20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30 MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work? Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions" 
  María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz