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Book Symposium on Roman Frigg's Philosophical Inquiry
Context
This symposium honours Roman Frigg's comprehensive contribution to the philosophy of science, inviting commentary from contemporary scholars to explore implications for current issues in metaphysics, epistemology and ontology.
Short contributions are followed by a discussion.
Format
Held at the University of Potsdam, interlocutors comment on
Models and Theories (Routledge 2022).
Location
Universität Potsdam
Am neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam
Haus 8, Room 0.58
Image credit: Archivo Histórico José Vial Armstrong, Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV)
Schedule & Interlocutors
Saturday 3 May 2025
Opening
09:45 – 10:00 Leon Isenmann (Potsdam)
Session I chair: Sophie Juliane Veigl (Wien)
10:00 – 10:45 David Hommen (HHU Düsseldorf) – Keys and Metaphor
11:00 – 11:45 Luz Christopher Seiberth (Potsdam) - Anatomy of Argument
12:00 – 12:45 Felipe Morales Carbonell (Chile) - Theories, models, subject matters, and questions
Break
13:00 – 14:30 lunch
Session II chair: Dilek Yargan (Rostock)
14:30 – 15:15 Daian Bica (HHU) – How to tame ‘Abundance’? Frigg’s user manual
15:30 – 16:15 Leon Isenmann (Potsdam) – Models in Metaphysics
16:30 – 17:15 Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) – Models, Testing, and Parameters
Roundtable
17:30 – 18:00
Closing
18:00 - 19:00 walk through the park
19:00 dinner in town
Sunday 4 May 2025
Opening
09:45 – 10:00 Luz Christopher Seiberth (Potsdam) – The Red Thread
Session III chair: Madara Vaserberga (Potsdam)
10:00 – 10:45 Ludger Jansen (PTH Brixen) – The Unbearable Lightness of Representation. Perspectives from Applied Ontology
11:00 – 11:45 Andreas Wolfsteiner (Osnabrück) – From Bozzetto to Biofact. Some Comments on Stages and Modes of Modeling
12:00 – 12:45 Sophie Juliane Veigl (Wien) – Theory-laden theory-layering. How the socio-political influences theory clusters
Break
13:00 – 15:00 lunch
Session IV chair: Andreas Wolfsteiner (Osnabrück)
15:00 – 15:45 Dilek Yargan (Rostock) – The Role of Analogies in Biomimetics
16:00 – 16:45 Ioannis Votsis (NLU, London) - Some Thoughts on Observability
Roundtable chair: David Hommen (HHU Düsseldorf)
17:00 – 18:00
Closing
18:00 - 19:00 commute
19:00 dinner at Trattoria Toscana
Organised by Leon Isenmann (Universität Potsdam)
Associate Prof. Dr. Luz Christopher Seiberth (Universität Potsdam) (contact)
Das Symposium wird unterstützt aus den Mitteln der Universität Potsdam und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie e.V.
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