This event is jointly organised by the University of Cambridge and LSE.
Keynote speaker: Prof. Barbara Webb (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh).
Conference Venue will be hybrid. In person portion will take place at: London School of Economics, United Kingdom, room LAK2.06. The room is on the second floor of the Lakatos Building. A campus map is here: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-information/campus-map
The event it public and open to everybody; seating is first-come-first served and once the room is full people will be turned away.
Workshop description
Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Despite the fact that how a phenomenon is represented has far-reaching ramifications for how it is understood, the literatures on scientific understanding and scientific representation are largely independent of each other. The time is ripe to foster greater synergy between these two areas in the philosophy of science, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions.
For more information about the workshop series, go here.
Workshop program
Talk 30 mins + 15 mins Q&A + 5 mins buffer
Day 1 (17th June):
1.45 pm - 2:35 pm: Talk 1: Alison Springle & Elay Shech – Inference, Action, & Scientific Representation.
2.35 pm – 3.25 pm: Talk 2: Dun Xiang – Surrogative reasoning and direct representation.
3.25 pm - 4.00pm: Coffee Break.
4.00 pm – 4.50 pm: Talk 3: Peter Tan – Generality vs Analogy in Interdisciplinary Model Transfer.
4:50 pm – 5.40pm: Talk 4: Alexander Belak – Restructuring Understanding’s Object: Idealizations and Structuralist Representation.
6.00 pm – 7:15 pm: (KEYNOTE) Prof. Barbara Webb (University of Edinburgh), - Explaining a brain: the dance language of the bee.
IMPORTANT: The keynote will take place in room PAN.G.01, not in room LAK2.06.
Day 2 (18th June):
9:30 am – 10:20 am: Talk 5: Jessica Lauman-Lairson – Reverse analogical inferences: Gerrymandering the source domain representation.
10:20 am - 11:10 am: Talk 6: Wiktor Rorot & Marcin Miłkowski – How predictive can understanding be in scientific practice?
11:10 am – 12:00 pm: Talk 7: Annika Schuster – Understanding deep learning geometrically – conceptual spaces in deep neural networks.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch Break.
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm: Talk 8: Andrea Loettgers – On Machine Learning-generated representational artifacts (Online).
1:50 pm - 2:40 pm: Talk 9: Frauke Stoll – Navigating the Black Box: Understanding Particle Physics with Deep Neural Networks and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence.
2.40 pm - 3.30: Coffee break.
3:30 pm – 4:20 pm: Talk 11: Guido I. Prieto & Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda – Don’t call me a model: On organisms as flexible model carriers.
4:20 pm – 5:10 pm: Talk 12: Dana Matthiessen – Understanding Through Coordinated Practices: Uses of Deep Learning Algorithms in Structural Biology (Online).
Day 3 (19th June):
9:30 am – 10:20 am: Talk 13: Myron A. Penner, Amanda J. Nichols – Science, Art, and Understanding.
10:20 am - 11:10 am: Talk 14: Domingos Faria – Representation in Science and Aesthetics: A Comparative Approach (Online).
11:10 am – 12:00 pm: Talk 15: Nina de Boer – Understanding in psychiatric science.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch Break.
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm: Talk 16: Lorenzo Spagnesi – Truth, Understanding, and Normativity in Scientific Models.
1:50pm – 2:40 pm: Talk 17: Hernán Bobadilla – Factivity in storylines-based scientific understanding.
2:.40pm – 3:10pm: Coffee break.
3:10 pm – 4:00 pm: Talk 18: Paula Muhr – Seeing and Understanding the ‘Unseeable’: The EHT Images of M87* Black Hole as Epistemic Tools.
4:00 pm – 4:50pm: Talk 19: Lorenzo Sartori – Why do we love pictures (for the wrong reasons): Scientific pictures, models, and their justification.
Local Organizing Committee
Roman Frigg, Adham El-Shazly, Phillip Hintikka Kieval, and Oscar Westerblad.
6th SURe is supported by the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science, and the MIND Association.
Keynote speaker: Prof. Barbara Webb (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh).
Conference Venue will be hybrid. In person portion will take place at: London School of Economics, United Kingdom, room LAK2.06. The room is on the second floor of the Lakatos Building. A campus map is here: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-information/campus-map
The event it public and open to everybody; seating is first-come-first served and once the room is full people will be turned away.
Workshop description
Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Despite the fact that how a phenomenon is represented has far-reaching ramifications for how it is understood, the literatures on scientific understanding and scientific representation are largely independent of each other. The time is ripe to foster greater synergy between these two areas in the philosophy of science, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions.
For more information about the workshop series, go here.
Workshop program
Talk 30 mins + 15 mins Q&A + 5 mins buffer
Day 1 (17th June):
1.45 pm - 2:35 pm: Talk 1: Alison Springle & Elay Shech – Inference, Action, & Scientific Representation.
2.35 pm – 3.25 pm: Talk 2: Dun Xiang – Surrogative reasoning and direct representation.
3.25 pm - 4.00pm: Coffee Break.
4.00 pm – 4.50 pm: Talk 3: Peter Tan – Generality vs Analogy in Interdisciplinary Model Transfer.
4:50 pm – 5.40pm: Talk 4: Alexander Belak – Restructuring Understanding’s Object: Idealizations and Structuralist Representation.
6.00 pm – 7:15 pm: (KEYNOTE) Prof. Barbara Webb (University of Edinburgh), - Explaining a brain: the dance language of the bee.
IMPORTANT: The keynote will take place in room PAN.G.01, not in room LAK2.06.
Day 2 (18th June):
9:30 am – 10:20 am: Talk 5: Jessica Lauman-Lairson – Reverse analogical inferences: Gerrymandering the source domain representation.
10:20 am - 11:10 am: Talk 6: Wiktor Rorot & Marcin Miłkowski – How predictive can understanding be in scientific practice?
11:10 am – 12:00 pm: Talk 7: Annika Schuster – Understanding deep learning geometrically – conceptual spaces in deep neural networks.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch Break.
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm: Talk 8: Andrea Loettgers – On Machine Learning-generated representational artifacts (Online).
1:50 pm - 2:40 pm: Talk 9: Frauke Stoll – Navigating the Black Box: Understanding Particle Physics with Deep Neural Networks and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence.
2.40 pm - 3.30: Coffee break.
3:30 pm – 4:20 pm: Talk 11: Guido I. Prieto & Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda – Don’t call me a model: On organisms as flexible model carriers.
4:20 pm – 5:10 pm: Talk 12: Dana Matthiessen – Understanding Through Coordinated Practices: Uses of Deep Learning Algorithms in Structural Biology (Online).
Day 3 (19th June):
9:30 am – 10:20 am: Talk 13: Myron A. Penner, Amanda J. Nichols – Science, Art, and Understanding.
10:20 am - 11:10 am: Talk 14: Domingos Faria – Representation in Science and Aesthetics: A Comparative Approach (Online).
11:10 am – 12:00 pm: Talk 15: Nina de Boer – Understanding in psychiatric science.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch Break.
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm: Talk 16: Lorenzo Spagnesi – Truth, Understanding, and Normativity in Scientific Models.
1:50pm – 2:40 pm: Talk 17: Hernán Bobadilla – Factivity in storylines-based scientific understanding.
2:.40pm – 3:10pm: Coffee break.
3:10 pm – 4:00 pm: Talk 18: Paula Muhr – Seeing and Understanding the ‘Unseeable’: The EHT Images of M87* Black Hole as Epistemic Tools.
4:00 pm – 4:50pm: Talk 19: Lorenzo Sartori – Why do we love pictures (for the wrong reasons): Scientific pictures, models, and their justification.
Local Organizing Committee
Roman Frigg, Adham El-Shazly, Phillip Hintikka Kieval, and Oscar Westerblad.
6th SURe is supported by the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science, and the MIND Association.