PROGRAM
April 11
14.30 - 15.30 Introduction and greetings
Giorgio Calcagnini, Chancellor, University of Urbino
Andrea Viceré, Director, Department for Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino
Vincenzo Fano, President, Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science
Evandro Agazzi, Honorary President, Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
Jure Zovko, President, Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
15.30 - 16.30 Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino, AIPS)
A defense of model realism
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17,00-18,00 Dennis Dieks (Utrecht University, AIPS)
Factivity and Probability
18.00-19,00 Francesco Orilia (University of Macerata)
On non-Denoting
April 12
9.00 - 10.00 Ilkka Niiniluoto (University of Helsinki, AIPS)
Abductive Arguments for Ontological Realism
10.00 - 11.00 Alberto Cordero (CUNY, AIPS)
Mario Alai and the Quest for a Realist Scientific Realism
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11.30 - 12.30 Massimo Dell’Utri (University of Sassari)
Brains in a Vat: Proofs, Choices, Possibilities, and Impossibilities
12.30 - 13.30 Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateranen University)
Scientific Change and Truth
Lunch break
14,30 - 15,30 Tiziana Migliore (University of Urbino)
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15,30 – 16,30 Fabio Minazzi (University of Insubria, AIPS)
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17,00 – 18,00 Giorgio Volpe (University of Bologna)
Scepticism, Explanationism, and Epistemic Closure
18,00-19,00 Federica Malfatti (University of Innsbruck)
Understanding and Realism
April 13
9,00 - 10,00 Michel Ghins (Catholic University of Louvain, AIPS)
Stability of reference through theory change and scientific realism
10,00 - 11,00 Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)
Can We ‘Naturalize All The Way Down’?
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11.30 - 12.30 Mario Alai (University of Urbino, AIPS)
How I Developed my Views on Realism
12.30 - 13.30 Gino Tarozzi (University of Urbino, AIPS)
Realism of Properties and Empirical Causality in Quantum Mechanics: Two Meaningful Philosophical Principles in a Complementary Relation
Lunch break
15,00-16,00 Round table, Chair: Adriano Angelucci (Urbino):
Gabriele Ferretti (Ruhr-University Bochum), Giovanni Galli (Urbino),
Giovanni Macchia (Urbino), Mirko Tagliaferri (Urbino).
