Metaphysics of Scientific Realism

PROGRAMME OF THE WORKSHOP ON METAPHYSICS OF SCIENTIFIC REALISM

Friday, 1 March
4:30pm – 8:00pm
Cultural Centre of the University of Athens Kostis Palamas

4:30 – 6:00 Chair: Theodore Arabatzis, University of Athens
Stathis Psillos, University of Athens
“Regularities all the way down”
Demetris Portides, University of Cyprus
“Living without the Abstract: Realism and Models”

6:00 – 6:30 Coffee Break

6:30 – 8:00 Chair: Aristidis Arageorgis, National Technical University of Athens
Michel Ghins, Catholic University of Louvain
“A mixed view account of laws of nature”
Michael Andreas Esfeld, University of Lausanne
“Realism about dispositions in the philosophy of physics”

Saturday, 2 March
10:00am – 7:15pm
Philosophy and History of Science Department, University Campus

10:00 – 11:30 Chair: Eleni Manolakaki, University of Athens
Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, University of Thessaloniki
“A Discussion of Aristotle’s “Direct Realism” as a Way Out of the Problem of Representationalism”
Vassilios Karakostas, University of Athens
“Why the Traditional Conception of Correspondence Truth Should be Modified Within Contemporary Physics”

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 1:30 Chair: Chrysovalantis Stergiou, University of Athens
Mauro Dorato, University of Rome III
“The Antiholistic Consequences of Rovelli's Relational Quantum Mechanics”
Steven French, Leeds University
“Enabling Eliminativism: Putting Metaphysics to the Service of Realism”

1:30pm – 3:30pm Lunch Break

3:30 – 5:00 Chair: Vassilis Sakellariou, University of Athens
Antigone Nounou & Harris Anastopoulos, University of Athens & University of Patras
“Properties Are …”
Ioannis Votsis, University of Düsseldorf
“The Houdini Argument for Intrinsic Properties”

5:00 – 5:30 Coffee Break

5:30 – 7:15 Chair: Costas Dimitracopoulos, University of Athens
Vassilis Livanios, University of Athens
“Categorical Structures and the Multiple Realizability Argument”
General Discussion


Research Program: THALIS –University of Athens
Aspects and Prospects of Realism in the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics