Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination Workshop
2008年03月19日 21:11
April 10-12, University of Düsseldorf.
The aim of the workshop is to explore new and fruitful avenues concerning
the empirical limits of scientific knowledge. It brings together some of the
world’s leading experts in the scientific realism debate to discuss the
latest developments in the field. Topics to be discussed include structural
realism, underdetermination, empirical equivalence, the pessimistic
meta-induction argument, the reference of scientific terms and inference to
the best explanation.
The programme will commence with a eulogy to the late Peter Lipton, who was
originally scheduled to give a talk at the workshop. David Papineau who had
known Peter for over twenty years will give the eulogy.
Attendance is open to all. If you plan to attend please contact Ioannis
Votsis - votsis@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de - about three weeks in advance.
Date: April 10-12, 2008
Place: Lecture Room 02.26, Building 23.31, University of Düsseldorf
Workshop organisers: Gerhard Schurz and Ioannis Votsis
Website:
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/theoretical-frameworks-and-empirical-underdetermination/
The workshop is financed by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft -
German Research Foundation) as part of the research unit FOR600.
Provisional Schedule:
Thursday, April 10
09:30 – 09:40 Peter Lipton Eulogy by David Papineau
09:40 – 10:50 ‘Reduction or Elimination? and Why It Doesn’t Matter’
David Papineau (King’s College London)
10:50 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 – 12:10 ‘Structures, Inferences and Referents’
Ioannis Votsis (Duesseldorf)
12:10 – 14:00 lunch break
14:00 – 15:10 ‘Structural versus Standard Realism: The Case of
Phlogiston and the De-oxygenated Air’
James Ladyman (Bristol)
15:10 – 15:20 coffee break
15:20 – 16:30 ‘When Empirical Success Implies Theoretical Reference: A
Structural Correspondence Theorem’
Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf)
16:30 – 16:40 coffee break
16:40 – 17:50 ‘Structural Realism and Quantum Mechanics’
F.A. Muller (Rotterdam & Utrecht)
Friday, April 11
09:30 – 10:40 ‘Transient Underdetermination and the Miracle Argument’
Paul-Hoyningen Huene (Hannover)
10:40 – 10:50 coffee break
10:50 – 12:00 ‘The Role of the Underdetermination Argument in the
Scientific Realism Debate’
Stathis Psillos (Athens)
12:00 – 14:00 lunch break
14:00 – 15:10 ‘Why the Structural Realist has nothing to Fear from
“Underdetermination” ’
John Worrall (London School of Economics)
15:10 – 15:20 coffee break
15:20 – 16:30 ‘Underdetermination: Epistemological Impact and
Methodological Role’
Martin Carrier (Bielefeld)
16:30 – 16:40 coffee break
16:40 – 17:50 ‘Empirical Content and its Presuppositions’
Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol)
18:15 – 19:45 Plenary Talk: ‘Carnap on Theoretical Terms: Structuralism
without Metaphysics’
Michael Friedman (Stanford)
Saturday, April 12
09:30 – 10:40 ‘How the Growth of Evidence has Stopped Theory Change’
Ludwig Fahrbach (Duesseldorf)
10:40 – 10:50 coffee break
10:50 – 12:00 ‘Is Structural Underdetermination Possible?’
Holger Lyre (Bonn)
12:00 – 12:10 coffee break
12:10 – 13:20 ‘Metaphysical Underdetermination: Why Worry?’
Steven French (Leeds)
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Dr. Ioannis Votsis
Philosophisches Institut
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Universitätsstraße 1
Geb. 23.21/04.86
D-40225 Düsseldorf
Germany
Tel: +49 211 81-11473
Fax: +49 211 81-11750
http://www.votsis.org
