Annual Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop
2024 abstracts
Richard Dawid (Stockholm). Unification and Surprise: How Unification gets confirmatory
Michael Miller (Toronto). Precision and Determinacy
Luna de Souter (Bergen). Restoring Reductiveness in Regularity Theories of Causation
Sam Fletcher (Oxford). The Limits of Approximation
Daniele Molinini (Bologna). Mapping‑Based Accounts of Applicability and Converse Applications
Karen Crowther (Oslo). Why do we want a theory of quantum gravity?
Monica Solomon (Bilkent). The Road Less Traveled to the Distinction between Absolute and Relative Motion: Newton’s De Motu manuscripts
James Fraser (IHPST Paris). Laws of Nature on Different Scales
2023 abstracts
Sam Schindler (Aarhus): Two types of discovery: Nobel meets Kuhn
Elena Popa (Krakow, Jagiellonian Univ.): Causality, Evidence, and Local Psychiatric Knowledge: A Case for Pluralism
Rose Trappes (Exeter): Behaviour as Disposition or Interaction
Veli Pekka Parkkinen (Bergen): Unique identifiability assumptions in methods and philosophy of causal enquiry
Daniel Kostic (Leiden): Pragmatics for Explainable AI
Cyrille Imbert (Univ. Lorraine): The Cognitive and Social Process of Computing Pseudo-Random Numbers for Scientific Applications: Ingredients for a Reliability Crisis
Lorenzo Casini (Lucca/LMU): High-level Causation and Causal Inference (w/ A. Moneta)
Henrik Røed Sherling (Cambridge) & Benjamin Chin-Yee (Cambridge): Clinical Communication: A Model for Scientific Assertion?
Benedetta Spigola (Lisbon): What is it like to be a conservation law? Between laws and principles
Johannes Nyström (Stockholm): Predictive success and theoretical stability: on the soundness of the two-variable no-miracles argument
Aditya Jha (Cambridge): On the Continuum Fallacy: Is Temperature a Continuous Function?
Andrei Marasoiu (Bucharest): Representation and design in network models of category deficits
2022 abstracts
Chris Smeenk (Univ. of Western Ontario): Fuzzy Modularity and Crucial Simulations (Joint work with Marie Gueguen, Rennes)
Nic Fillion (Simon Fraser Univ.): The argument view of computer simulations done right
Ana-Maria Cretu (Bristol Univ.): Human Computers as Instruments
Elay Shech (Auburn Univ.): Are Mesoscale Structures Natural Kinds? Reconsidering Batterman’s Middle Way
Vincent Ardourel (IHPST Paris): The reduction of hydrodynamics and singular limits
Siska de Baerdemaeker (Stockholm Univ.): Into the Unknown. Exploring Dark Matter with Stellar Streams
Alex Franklin (King's College London): Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent. How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge
2021 (online) abstracts & video
Samir Okasha (Bristol): Is there a Bayesian justification of hypothetico-deductive inference? (Joint work with Karim Thebault, Bristol)
Jessica Wilson (Toronto): In Defense of Countabilism (Joint work with David Builes, Princeton)
Alastair Wilson (Birmingham): Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy (Joint work with Katie Robertson, Birmingham)
Chris Pincock (Ohio State Univ.): Defending Selective Scientific Realism
2020 (online) abstracts & video
Roman Frigg (LSE): Modelling Nature: the DEKI Account (Talk based on joint work with James Nguyen, LSE)
Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest): Baconianism and Newtonianism: a history (and philosophy) of shifting historiographic categories
Jo Wolff (Edinburgh): Making concepts measurable
Richard Dawid (Stockholm): How postmodern is cosmic inflation? (Based on joint work with Casey McCoy, Yonsei Univ.)
Karim Thebault (Bristol): Poincaré, Dark Energy, and the Deadly Robots of Krikkit (Based on work with Sean Gryb, Groningen)
Karen Crowther (Oslo): The Role of Singularities in the Search for Quantum Gravity (Joint work with Sebastian De Haro, Amsterdam)
2019 abstracts
Denis Walsh (Toronto): The Developmental Imperative
James Ladyman (Bristol): What if anything is fundamental about physics?
Patricia Palacios (Salzburg): Intertheoretic Reduction in Physics Beyond the Nagelian Model
Axel Gelfert (Berlin): Explanation and Exploration in the Science of Pattern Formation
Laura Franklin-Hall (NYU): Why are some kinds historical and others not?
2018 abstracts
P. Kyle Stanford (UC Irvine): A Difference that Makes a Difference: Howard Stein on Realism, Instrumentalism, and Intellectually Nourishing Snacks
Kirsten Walsh (Nottingham): Inventing Units of Measurement: Causal Reasoning in Newton's Optics
Dirk Schlimm (McGill): Towards a cognitive and pragmatic account of notations for propositional logic
Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney and the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich): Analogical Reasoning via Mathematical Models
Adrian Curie (Cambridge): How are moa like sheep? Pursuit and value in science
Julie Zahle (Bergen): Data, Epistemic Values, and Multiple Methods in Case Study Research
Alan Baker (Swarthmore): Mapping Mathematics to the World
2017 abstracts
Stathis Psillos (Univ. of Athens): Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature
Alexander Bird (Univ. of Bristol): Is there meta-scientific knowledge? Against both the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction
Gordon Belot (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Gravity and GRACE: Does Underdetermination Undermine Objectivity?
Laura Ruetsche (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Renormalization Group Realism: An Unduly Skeptical Review
Michael Baumgartner (Univ. of Geneva / Univ. of Bergen): Boolean difference-making: A modern regularity theory of causation
Eleanor Knox (King's College London): Spacetime Functionalism
2016 abstracts
Carl Hoefer (ICREA / Barcelona): Current Great Theory Realism
Stephanie Ruphy (Grenoble): Pluralist challenges to a science-based metaphysics
Jamie Tappenden (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor): Frege, Carl Snell and Romanticism; Fruitful Concepts and the 'Organic/Mechanical' Distinction
Sam Schindler (Aarhus): Prediction and testability
James Conant (Chicago): Thomas Kuhn on Problems and Puzzles
2015 abstracts
Mark Steiner (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem): The Silent Revolution of Wittgenstein in the Philosophy of Mathematics, 1937
Catherine Wilson (York Univ. UK): The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness: Scientific Explanation and Philosophical Ineffability
Juha Saatsi (Leeds Univ.): Emergence and Explanation
Mary Leng (York Univ.): Mathematical Realism and Naturalism
Anjan Chakravartty (Notre Dame Univ.): Property Ontology in Fundamental Physics
Øystein Linnebo (Univ. of Oslo): Mathematics and Inference to the Best Explanation
2014 abstracts
Robert Batterman (Pittsburgh): Minimal Model Explanations
Michael Moreau (Tromsø): Mr. Fit, Mr. Simplicity and Mr. Scope: from Social Choice to Theory Choice in Science
Dennis Dieks (Utrecht): Emergence, Reduction, Underdetermination and Explanation in Recent Quantum Gravity Research
Mauricio Suarez (London / Madrid): Propensities, Chances, and Experimental Statistics
Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh): Fictionalism about Neural Representations
Anouk Barberousse (Lille / Paris): Bayesian Methods in Climate Modeling
Margaret Morrison (Univ. of Toronto): Inconsistent Models: Problems and Perspectives
Wendy Parker (Durham Univ., UK): Simulation, Measurement & the Construction of Global Climate Datasets
Michal Walicki (Univ. of Bergen, Institute of Informatics): The holism of truth and paradox (joint work with Sjur Dyrkolbotn)
Alexander Paseau (Oxford Univ.): Knowledge of Mathematics Without Proof
Rani L. Anjum (Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences UMB) and Stephen Mumford (Durham): Causation, Powers and Probability (joint work)
Colin Howson (LSE / Toronto): The Importance of Being Bayesian