Models and Mechanisms: Special Focus on Cognitive Science

The development of models and the investigation of mechanisms are often deeply related across scientific research, and modelling can play a range of roles in directing research into mechanisms. While recent years have witnessed an increasing amount of interest by philosophers and by scientists alike in the distinctive roles that models and mechanisms play in scientific explanation, many outstanding issues about the relationship between models, investigations of mechanisms and scientific explanation remain. The aim of this workshop is to address some such outstanding issues  - paying special attention to practice in the cognitive sciences.

Program Committee:


Anouk Barberousse (IHPST, Paris/HSE, Lille)


Matthias Bethge (CIN, Tuebingen)


Carl Craver (Washington University, St Louis) 


Lindley Darden (Maryland)


Marcus Eronen (Bochum)


Roman Frigg (LSE)


Cyrille Imbert (CNRS, Nancy)

Tarja Knuuttila (TINT, Helsinki)


Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh)


Catherine Stinson (Pittsburgh HPS / CIN,Tuebingen)


Matty Chalk (ENS / Paris)