Modelling and Representation. How to make world(s) with symbols
Donostia-San Sebastián, 10-12 December 2015
Programme
(A pdf file with the Conference's program and talk abstracts may be downloaded here).
Thursday, 10th December
| 9:00- 9:30 | :: | Registration, Welcome and Introduction |
| 9:30- 10:30 | :: |
Catherine Elgin (Harvard University) Chekhov's Gun |
| 10:30- 11:15 | :: |
Stefano Canali (University College London) Models and Data Curation |
| 11:15- 11:45 | :: | coffee break |
| 11:45- 12:45 | :: |
Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark University) Models, Models, Models: A Deflationary Approach |
| 12:45- 15:00 | :: | lunch |
| 15:00- 15:45 | :: |
Maria Serban (CPNSS, London School of Economics) From representations to interventions: understanding the empirical success of mathematical models |
| 15:45- 16:30 | :: |
Koray Karaca (University of Twente) Modeling Data Acquisition at the Large Hadron Collider: Against the Hierarchy of Models in High Energy Physics |
| 16:30- 17:00 | :: | coffee break |
| 17:00- 18:00 | :: |
Tarja Knuuttila (Helsinki Collegium / U. of South Carolina) Small Worlds Variously Embodied: The Material Dimensions of Modelling |
Friday, 11th December
| 9:30- 10:30 | :: |
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) Models as a Form of Scientific Objects |
| 10:30- 11:15 | :: |
James Nguyen & Roman Frigg (London School of Economics) Scientific Representation and Representation-as |
| 11:15- 11:45 | :: | coffee break |
| 11:45- 12:45 | :: |
Thomas Mormann (University of the Basque Country) Structural Representation, Constitution, and the Relative A priori |
| 12:45- 15:00 | :: | lunch |
| 15:00- 16:00 | :: |
Christopher Pincock (Ohio State University) Scientific Representation without Representationalism |
| 16:00- 16:45 | :: |
Andrew Wayne (University of Guelph) Explanation without (traditional) Representation |
| 16:45- 17:15 | :: | coffee break |
| 17:15- 18:15 | :: |
Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida) Confirmation in Computer and Analog Simulations |
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20:30 |
:: | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, 12th December
| 9:00- 10:00 | :: |
Andoni Ibarra & Iñaki San Pedro (University of the Basque Country) Performative Representing with Computer Symulations |
| 10:00- 10:45 | :: |
Gabriel Giovannetti (Aix—Marseille University) Empirical Meaning of Metrological Concepts in Physics: A Failure of Representation? |
| 10:45- 11:15 | :: | coffee break |
| 11:15- 12:00 | :: |
Julia Sánchez Dorado (University College London) |
| 12:00- 13:00 | :: |
James Griesemer (University of California, Davis) Representations of Theoretical and Evidential Landscapes in Ecological Science |
| 13:00 | :: | end |