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)
Klaas Landsman (Radboud University) 

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)

Conference Venue will be hybrid. In person portion will take place at:
Institute for Science in Society (ISiS), Radboud University, Huygens Building, Heyendaalseweg 135 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

The online portion will take place via some of the common platforms and all the in-person talks will be streamed online. 
We will provide links in due course.

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)​

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Preliminary program

Thursday 15 April 2021
9:45   Welcome and opening by Henk de Regt and Daniel Kostic 
10:00 Keynote talk by Mary Morgan (LSE, UK)
11:15 Contributed paper 1
12:00 Contributed paper 2
12:45 Lunch break
13:45 Contributed paper 3
14:30 Contributed paper 4
15:15 Tea/coffee break
15:30 Contributed paper 5
16:15 Contributed paper 6
17:00 Concluding remarks of the first day

Friday 16 April 2021
Special Panel: Idealizations, Understanding and the Success of Science
14:00 Emily Sullivan: Function-first approach to Idealization
14:45 Kareem Khalifa: Should Friends and Frenemies of Understanding be Friends?  Discussing De Regt
15:30 Tea/coffee break
15:45 Henk de Regt: Can Scientific Understanding be Reduced to Knowledge? A Reply to Khalifa 
16:30 Christopher Pincock: Understanding the success of science
17:15 Collin Rice: Representation and Understanding: A Communal and Dynamical View
18:00 Tea/coffee break
17:45 Keynote talk by Soazig Le Bihan (University of Montana, USA)
19:00 Drinks and workshop dinner

Saturday 17 April 2021
10:00 Keynote talk by Klaas Landsman (Radboud, University NL)
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Contributed paper 7
12:15 Contributed paper 8
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Contributed paper 9
14:45 Contributed paper 10
15:30 Closing of the workshop