SILFS 2013 Mid-Term Postgraduate conference in Logic and Philosophy of Science

The 2013 Mid-Term Postgraduate conference in Logic and Philosophy of Science will be held in Urbino on 29-30-31 May 2013.

The conference will be organized by the Italian Society  for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS), www.silfs.net

Further information can be found at www.silfs.net and writing to Vincenzo Fano at [email protected] or to Pierluigi Graziani at [email protected] 

The conference will host six different sessions, namely:

1. History and Philosophy of Physics
2. Logic and Philosophy of Logic
3. Philosophy of Biology
4. Philosophy of Language and Mind
5. History and Philosophy of Mathematics
6. Philosophy of Social Sciences

There will not be parallel sessions. Each session will be chaired by the following renown international scholars: 

History and Philosophy of Physics

Chair: Mauro Dorato (University of Rome 3)

Logic and Philosophy of Logic

Chair: Francesco Paoli (University of Cagliari)

Philosophy of Biology

Chair: CorradoSinigaglia (University of Milan)

Philosophy of Language and Mind

Chair: Marco Giunti (University of Cagliari)

History and Philosophy of Mathematics

Chair: Mario Piazza (University of Chieti-Pescara)

Philosophy of Social Sciences

Chair: Enzo Di Nuoscio (Unimol) and Albertina Oliverio (University of Chieti-Pescara)

Each session will host four different talks.

Further information can be found at www.silfs.net and writing to Vincenzo Fano at [email protected] or to Pierluigi Graziani at [email protected]

Scientific Committee: Mauro Dorato, Mauro Ceruti, Pierluigi Minari, Roberto Giuntini, Francesco Paoli, Massimo Marraffa, Massimiliano Carrara, Federico Laudisa, Roberto Arpaia, Matteo Morganti, Enzo Di Nuoscio, Albertina Oliverio, Gino Tarozzi, Mario Alai, Corrado Sinigaglia, Marco Giunti and Isabella Tassani

Organizing Committee: Mario Alai, Stefano Bordoni, Claudio Calosi, Vincenzo Fano, Pierluigi Graziani, Sara Matera, Massimo Sangoi, Isabella Tassani.

P R O G R A M M E

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09:00 Opening

Philosophy of Social Sciences – Antonio Rainone (University of Naples "L'Orientale")

09:30 Leonardo Caffo (University of Turin) - From Moral Biology to Social Ontology

10:15 Corrado Matta  (Stockholm University) - Troubles for Interpretivism: a Case from Educational Research

11:00 break

11:10 Carlo Martini  (Finnish Centre of Excellencein the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)- Measurement in economics: Subjective, but not Arbitrary

11:55 Giuliana Gerace (University of Pavia) - Emergence and Persistence of social norms: a Material-Based Account

Philosophy of Language and Mind  – Marco Giunti (Univ. of Cagliari)

15:00 Alfredo Tommasetta (University of Bergamo) - Chalmer’s 2D Argument: what Materialists (usually) deny but should not

15:45 Matthew McKeever (Arché/ St Andrews ) - Indefinite descriptions and arbitrary reference

16:30 break

16:40 Simone Pinna (University of Cagliari)  - A possible dynamical explanation of the cardinal principle

17:25 Massimo Sangoi (University of Urbino) - Metaphor and the semantic web

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Logic and Philosophy of Logic – Francesco Paoli (Univ. of Cagliari)

09:00 Paolo Pistone (University of Rome 3) - Second order logic: the Quinean critic and proof-theory

09:45 Luisa Peruzzi (University of Florence) - Relevant semantics for combinatory logic and lambda calculus

10:30 break

10:40 Giuseppe Sergioli (University of Cagliari) - Entanglement and holistic structures in quantum computation

11:25 GiacomoTurbanti (University of Pisa) - Towards perspectival  lattices

History and Philosophy of Mathematics  – Mario Piazza (Univ. of Chieti-Pescara)

15:00 Georg Schiemer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) - Invariants and Mathematical Structuralism

15:45 Claudio Ternullo (Kurt Gödel Research Center, Vienna) - Concept Expansion And Set Theory

16:30 break

16:40 Daniele Molinini (Universitat de Barcelona) - Towards A New, Pluralist and Pragmatic, Approach To Mathematical Explanation(s)

17:25 Marianna Antonutti (University of Bristol) - Human Effective Computability and Absolute Indecidibility

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Philosophy of Biology  – Corrado Sinigaglia (Univ. of Milan)

09:00 Gabriele Ferretti (University of Urbino) -  Neurophenomenology and Mirror phenomena

09:45 Adam P. Kubiak (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University) and Rafal Wodzisz (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin ) - Classification Practice in Biology in the Light of Essentialists Revival in Philosophy of Biology

10:30 break

10:40 Marco Nathan (University of Denver) - Biological Unification without Theoretical Reduction

11:25 Marco Tamborini (Philosophisches Seminar der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) - Models and Data: the Paleobiological Reconstruction of Biodiversity.

History and Philosophy of Physics  – Mauro Dorato (Univ. of Rome 3)

15:00 Samuele Iaquinto (State University of Milan) -  Confirmation Holism , Bahesian Holism and Epistemic Coeherentism

15:45 Karim Bschir (ETH Zurich) - The Concept of Potentiality  in Currents Debates in Philosophy of Nature

16:30 break

16:40 Juliusz Doboszewski (Jagiellonian University) - Can we learn about the present from the topology of a spacetime?

17:25 Tommaso Panajoli (University of Bologna) -  Symmetry and Invariance: artistic and scientific developments of the concept of symmetry before modern mathematics