CFA: 3rd Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop
Call for abstracts
We invite authors to submit abstracts (300-500 words) prepared for blind review for the upcoming 3rd annual workshop Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe). Please, provide also information about your affiliation and contact details in a separate file. Submit your abstract via EasyChair.
Submission deadline: 15 February, 2021
Deadline for communicating decisions: 01 March, 2021.
Workshop dates: April 15-17, 2021
Keynote speakers
Mary Morgan (London School of Economics)
Soazig Le Bihan (University of Montana)
Special Panel: Idealizations, Understanding and the Success of Science
Collin Rice (Bryn Mawr College)
Emily Sullivan (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Christopher Pincock (Ohio State University)
Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College)
Henk de Regt (Radboud University)
Workshop Venue will be online. We will send a zoom link to registered participants a few days before the workshop. Please register here.
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:
Local Organizing Committee
Daniel Kostic (Co-Chair), Henk de Regt (Co-Chair), Luca Consoli, Vera Jansen and Magda Speijers.
Co-chairs of the program committee
Henk De Regt (Institute for Science in Society (ISiS), Radboud University, The Netherlands).
Daniel Kostic (Institute for Science in Society (ISiS), Radboud University, The Netherlands).
Program committee
Sorin Bangu (University of Bergen, Norway)
Otavio Bueno (University of Miami, USA)
Finnur Dellsen (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Catherine Elgin (Harvard University, USA)
Stephen Grimm (Fordham University, USA)
Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna, Austria)
Insa Lawler (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)
Michela Massimi (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
Angela Potochnik (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Collin Rice (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
Elay Shech (Auburn University, USA)
Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Program
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Thursday 15 April 2021
11:00 Welcome and opening by Henk de Regt and Daniel Kostić (Chair Henk de Regt) 11:15 Keynote talk by Mary Morgan (LSE, UK) “Narrative: Representing and Sense-Making Inside Science” (Chair Mike Stuart) 12:30 Aja Watkins “Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics and the purposes of idealization” 13:15 Lunch break 14:15 Daniel Kostić, Nathalie Niquil and Quentin Nogues “Perspectivism and vertical-horizontal explanatory modes in ecological networks” (Chair Philippe Verreault-Julien) 15:00 Linda Holland “Representing the brain in the biomedical sciences: the role of non-epistemic values in the use of brain scans” 15:45 Tea/coffee break 16:00 Mike Stuart “What is pragmatic understanding, and how does it relate to explanatory and objectual understanding?” 16:45 Concluding remarks of the first day |
Friday 16 April 2021
Special Panel: Idealizations, Understanding and the Success of Science (Chair Chris Pincock) 13:30 Emily Sullivan “Function-first approach to idealization” (CANCELED) 14:15 Kareem Khalifa “Should friends and frenemies of understanding be friends? Discussing De Regt” 15:00 Tea/coffee break (Chair Aja Watkins) 15:15 Henk de Regt “Can scientific understanding be reduced to knowledge? Countering Khalifa” 16:00 Christopher Pincock “Understanding the success of science” (Chair Daniel Kostić) 16:45 Collin Rice “Representation and understanding: a communal and dynamical view” 17:30 Tea/coffee break 17:45 Keynote talk by Soazig Le Bihan (University of Montana, USA) “Robustness: The Modal View” 19:00 Drinks and workshop dinner (Zoom hangout) |
Saturday 17 April 2021
(Chair Lilia Gurova)
11:00 Stefan Petkov “Understanding and explanatory structures”
11:45 Johannes Findl and Javier Súarez “Prediction, understanding and COVID-19: Early epidemiological models of COVID-19 shed light on the relationship between prediction and understanding”
12:30 Lunch break
(Chair Linda Holland)
13:30 Till Grüne-Yanoff and Philippe Verreault-Julien “How-possibly explanation and understanding”
14:15 Lilia Gurova “Is there non-explanatory predictive understanding?“
15:00 Tea/coffee break
(Chair Daniel Kostić)
15:15 Mario Hubert and Federica Malfatti “Ideal understanding”
16:00 Closing of the workshop
(Chair Lilia Gurova)
11:00 Stefan Petkov “Understanding and explanatory structures”
11:45 Johannes Findl and Javier Súarez “Prediction, understanding and COVID-19: Early epidemiological models of COVID-19 shed light on the relationship between prediction and understanding”
12:30 Lunch break
(Chair Linda Holland)
13:30 Till Grüne-Yanoff and Philippe Verreault-Julien “How-possibly explanation and understanding”
14:15 Lilia Gurova “Is there non-explanatory predictive understanding?“
15:00 Tea/coffee break
(Chair Daniel Kostić)
15:15 Mario Hubert and Federica Malfatti “Ideal understanding”
16:00 Closing of the workshop
