I am organizing a bi-monthly seminar entitled “Scientific Tools”:
Arcangeli, Margherita (EHESS), 25 January 2021, “Scientific Imagination”. Guest lecturer withing “Philosophy of Scientific and Epistemic Tools” Master Seminar.
Stuart, Mike T. (Université de Genève), 9 November 2020, “Imagination and Thought Experiments”. Guest lecturer withing “Philosophy of Scientific and Epistemic Tools” Master Seminar.
Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna), 26 November 2019, “Models as Erotetic Tools: An Artifactual Approach” (Cancelled)
Frigg Roman (LSE), 4 November 2019, “Fictional Models for Real”
Anouk Barberousse (Université Paris Sorbonne), TBA, (Canclelled)
I am organizing an online seminar to prepare for the SI on Surrogative Reasoning:
May 19th, 17h GMT (19h CET)
Lydia Patton, “Waveform Analysis and Dynamical Models in LIGO”
June 16th, 15h GMT (17h CET)
Insa Lawler, “Explananda of model-based explanations”
Mike Stuart, “Metaepistemology of Imaginative Reasoning”
June 30th, 15h GMT (17h CET)
John Norton, “How Analogy Created the New Science of Thermodynamics”
October 13th TBA , 15h GMT (17h CET)
Rawad El Skaf and Patricia Palacios, “Thought experiments vs. Analogue experiments: The case of black holes”
Paul Bartha, TBA
November 24th, TBA, 16h GMT (17h CET)
Mauricio Suarez, “Surrogative Inference and Thought Experiments”
Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers, “Modeling in multiple materialities: Mathematical, electronic and biological networks”