Generics, Normative and Scientific Reasoning
Strada Nuova 65
Pavia
Italy
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University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
May 27-28, 2026
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DAY 1 – Aula Foscolo
10.30–11 Opening remarks
11–11.30 Intro to the project (PI) + Team introductions
11.30–12.30 Stefano Colloca (Unipv): The uncertainty of analogy in scientific and normative reasoning
14.45–16 Bernhard Nickel (Harvard): How Generics can Guide Action
16–16.45 Tom Ralston (UCL): Sources of Generic Knowledge
17–17.45 Janek Guerrini (Unipd): (In)definites, domain restriction, and covert quantification.
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DAY 2 – Collegio Borromeo
10–11.15 Giovanni Sartor (Unibo): Defeasible causal reasoning
11.30–12.15 Miguel Garcia (Unipv): Generics and Defeasible Reasoning
12.15–13 Giorgio Lenta (Unipv) & Vita Saitta (Unicatt/MCMP), Generics via Conditional Truthmakers
14.30–15.15 James Kirkpatrick (Oxford), TBD
15.15–16 Federico Cella: Generics and Hermeneutical Injustice
16.15–17 Ludovica Conti, Arbitrariness and abstraction
17 Spotlight talks: F. Faroldi, V. Presi, M. Vargas, N. Rossi
Concluding remarks by Federico Faroldi
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