SILFS (Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science) 2014

June 18
9.30 Registration opens - foyer
11.00 Aula Magna - Introduction and opening
11.30-13.00 Aula Magna – Plenary lecture, Tarja Knuuttila: ‘Modeling, Representing and Experimenting: Synthetic Genetic Circuits in the Study of Biological
Organization’
13-14.30 Lunch break
Time
Aula 'Conferenze'
Philosophy of physics I - LAUDISA
Allori: ‘Quantum Mechanics and Paradigm Shift’
Aula 'Verra'
Philosophy of perception - RUSSO
Bacchini: ‘A Trouble for Disjunctivism’
15.00-15.30
Rossanese: ‘Structural Realism and Algebraic Quantum Field
Theory’
15.30-16.00
Vassallo/Ip: ‘On the Conceptual Issues Surrounding the
Notion of Background Independent Bohmian Mechanics’
16.00-16.30
Romano: ‘Decoherence and Bohmian Mechanics’
Raftopoulos: ‘Theory-Ladenness of
Perception and the Evidential Role of
Perception’
Ferretti: ‘Perception without
Representations. Can Enactivism Really
Reject Representations?’
Di Bona: ‘The Spatiality of Auditory
Perception’
14.30-15.00
Coffee break
Time
17.00-17.30
Aula 'Conferenze'
Philosophy of physics II - LAUDISA
Garola: ‘A Proposal for a Local and Non Contextual Extension
of Quantum Mechanics’
17.30-18.00
Hubert: ‘A Common Ontology for Classical Physics and
Quantum Mechanics’
18.00-18.30
Ben-Yami: ‘Absolute Distant Simultaneity in Special Relativity’
Aula ‘Verra’
Causation - RUSSO
Osimani: ‘ Causing Something to be
One Way rather than Another. Genetic
Information, Causal Specificity and the
Relevance of Linear Order’
Casini/Andreas: ‘A Ramsey-Test
Counterfactual Account of Causation’
Felline: ‘Causation, Regularities and
Counterfactuals in Fundamental Physics:
a Solution to the Bottoming-Out
Problem’
Aula 24
Logic and applications I - MINARI
Artemov/Protopopescu: ‘Intuitionistic
Epistemic Logic’
Giordani: ‘Exploiting Justification Logic
for Solving Gettier Problems’
Aula 26
Scientific models, scientific realism - CEI
Portides: ‘Why Scientific Models Cannot
Be Treated as Works of Fiction’
Pero/Suarez: ‘Varieties of
Misrepresentation and Homomorphism’
Toader: ‘Believing Provable Propositions’
Giunti: ‘A Real World Semantics for
Deterministic Dynamical Systems with
Finitely Many Components’
Cordero: ‘Content Reduction for Robust
Realism’
Casadio/Sadrzadeh: ‘Cyclic Properties
from Lambek Calculus vs. Pregroups.
Applications to Word Order in Natural
Language’
Aula 24
Logic and applications II - MINARI
Arpaia: ‘Logical Models for an
Epistemology of Psychology’
Aula 26
Scientific realism and antirealism - CEI
Bschir: ‘Realism, Empiricism, and
Ontological Relativity. A Happy Menage
a Trois?’
Paseka: ‘The Role of Linear Algebra in
Logic – On the Extensions of Di Nola’s
Theorem’
Chajda: ‘The Logic Representing Basic
Algebras’
Alai: ‘Stars and Minds. “Empirical
Realism” and Metaphysical Antirealism
in Liberalized Neopositivism’
Coffey: ‘Is Underdetermination a
Problem for Structural Realism?’
June 19
Time
9.30-10.00
10.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
Aula 'Conferenze'
Mathematics and philosophy: historical considerations BONIOLO
Bordoni: ‘On Determinism: the Debate between
Mathematicians and Philosophers in France around 1880’
Guzzardi: ‘The Form of the Law. The Guiding Power of
Mathematics in Ruggiero Boscovich’s Curve’
Ugaglia: ‘Potentiality and Iteration: on Aristotle’s
Processual Notion of Infinity’
Aula 'Verra'
Metaphysics and science I - FANO
Aula 24
Logic – D’AGOSTINO
Orlandelli: ‘Proof Analysis in NonNormal Deontic Logics’
Meyer: ‘Action at a Temporal Distance’
Calosi: ‘Persistence, Location and Change in
Spacetime’
Carrara/De Florio: ‘Independence and
Logicality’
Porello/Troquard: ‘A Logical Modeling
of Artifacts’ Behaviour’
Aula 26
Philosophy of the social sciences RUSSO
Fenici: ‘The Role of Social Experience in
Passing the False Belief Task:
Maturation, Facilitation, Attunement, or
Induction?’
Borghini/Nathan: ‘Causal Mechanisms of
Reinforcement in the Social Sciences’
Bianchin: ‘Towards a Cognitive Account
of Collective Intentionality’
Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Aula Magna – Plenary lecture, Hannes Leitgeb: ‘The Humean Thesis on Belief’
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
Time
Aula 'Conferenze'
Logic, mathematics and computation: philosophical and
historical issues - PIAZZA
14.30-15.00
Von Plato: ‘Wittgenstein’s Struggles with the Quantifiers’
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-16.30
Coffee break
Time
Pistone: ‘The Synthetic Conception of Proof: from
Herbrand’s Theorem to Geometry of Interaction’
Numerico: ‘The Weak Epistemological Status of
Computing, Licklider’s Insight on Computers and
Research: the Crucial Role of Datification’
Boccuni: ‘A Theory for Fregean Concepts and Objects’
Aula 'Conferenze'
Philosophy of mathematics and truth - PIAZZA
17.00-17.30
Cieslinski: ‘The Innocence of Truth’
17.30-18.00
Marrano/Hosni: ‘Comparing Degrees of Truth: Lessons
from Utility Theory’
18.00-18.30
Cogliandro/Ternullo: ‘On the Necessity of Large
Cardinals’
18.30-20.00 Aula Magna: General SILFS meeting
20.30 Social Dinner, Ristorante ‘La Mansarda’
Aula 'Verra'
Metaphysics and science II - FANO
Torrengo: ‘Metaphysical Explanations in
Science’
Lam: ‘Contextual Physical Identity’
Bartels: ‘How to Bite the Bullet of Quidditism
– Why the Standard Argument against
Categorical Properties in Physics Fails’
Ghins: ‘Do We Need Powers to Unify the
Laws of Nature?’
Aula 'Verra'
Quantum logic and computation - GIUNTINI
Sergioli: ‘Holistic Structures in Quantum
Computation. An application to Werner and
Isotropic States’
Cuffaro: ‘Quantum Computation and HowPossibly Explanation’
Cinà: ‘Connecting Categorical Quantum
Mechanics and Dynamic Quantum Logic’
Aula 24
Epistemology I - CARRARA
Festa/Cevolani: ‘Matthew Properties for
Incremental Confirmation and the Weak
Law of Likelihood’
Isaac: ‘A Group Theoretic Approach to
Rational Decision Making’
Crupi: ‘A Probabilistic Account of
Entailment and Refutation’
Bewersdorf: ‘Total Evidence and
Uncertainty’
Aula 24
Epistemology II - CARRARA
Brössel/Eder: ‘How to Resolve Doxastic
Disagreement’
Klein/Marx: ‘Modeling the Dynamics of
Generalized Trust. Scope and Limits of
Formal, Experimental and
Computational Approaches’
Battaglia/Poellinger: ‘Decision-Making in
the Loop and the Moral Imitation Game'
Aula 26
Topics in the philosophy of science SGARAVATTI
Tripodi: 'Gendered Metaphors in the
Philosophy of Science'
Dolcini: ‘Self Deception without
Deception’
Arcangeli/Dokic: ‘Mental Time Travel
and Engaged Imaginaton’
Zipoli Caiani: ‘Do Pictures Afford
Actions? A New Information-Based
Account of Affordances Perception’
Aula 26
Philosophy of mind and cognition SGARAVATTI
Pinna: ‘Finger-Counting and Acquisition
of Numerical Skills’
Amoretti/Manzotti: ‘Some Reasons not
to Be Internalists about the Physical
Correlates of Consciousness’
June 20
Time
9.30-10.00
Aula 'Conferenze'
Philosophy of the life sciences I - CORSI
Special lecture
Aula 'Verra'
Philosophy of physics I - CASTELLANI
Curiel: ‘Carnot Cycles and Black Holes’
Aula 24
General philosophy of science I FELLINE
Sprenger: ‘Explicating Degree of
Corroboration’
Badino: ‘How Typical! Genealogy of a
Concept’
Scorzato: ‘A Partial but Unambiguous
Characterization of Scientific Progress’
Godziszewski: ‘Yablo Paradox in Partial
Semantics and Potentially Infinite
Domains’
Cevolani: ‘A Better Way Out of the
Preface Paradox’
Afriat: ‘Is the World Made of Loops?’
Seidel: ‘Rational Disagreement in
Science without Methodological
Incommensurability’
Marra: ‘For a Dynamic Account of
Deontic Logic. The Miners and other
Paradoxes’
SILFS BestPhD Thesis winner
10.00-10.30
S. Giaimo: ‘The Pleiotropy Theory of Ageing: Conceptual,
Methodological and Empirical Issues’
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
Time
11.30-12.00
12.00-12.30
12.30-13.00
Aula 'Conferenze'
Philosophy of the life sciences II – CORSI
Aula 'Verra'
Philosophy of Physics II - CASTELLANI
Bertolaso: ‘Disentangling Context Dependencies in Biological
Sciences’
Lorusso: ‘Complex Causation and Race Concepts’
Wolff: ‘Criteria of Physical Significance
for Quantities in Physics’
Sus: ‘Dark Matter, the Equivalence
Principle and Modified Gravity’
Germain, Ratti, Boem: ‘The Encode Project and the Function
Controversy’
Strocchi: ‘Symmetries, Symmetry
Breaking and Gauge Symmetries’
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
Time
Aula 'Conferenze'
Philosophy of the life sciences III - ARPAIA
Aula 'Verra'
Philosophy of Physics III - LAUDISA
14.30-15.00
Nardini: ‘Monitoring Clinical Trials: Ethics and Epistemology in
Medicine’
15.00-15.30
Tambolo: ‘Placebo Effect and the Justification of
Methodological Rules’
Lalli: ‘”Geometry as a Branch of Physics”:
Philosophy at Work in Howard P.
Robertson’s Contributions to Relativity
Theory’
Brian Pitts: ‘Historical and Philosophical
Insights about General Relativity and
Space-Time from Particle Physics’
15.30-16.00
Aula 24
General philosophy of science II FELLINE
Backmann: ‘Even Better Best Systems,
Special Sciences and Demarcation’
Zamora Bonilla/Rodriguez Fernandez:
’The Game-Theoretic Logic of Scientific
Discovery’
Manafu: ‘On the (Im)possibility of a
Unified Science of Multiply Realized
Kinds’
Aula 24
The nature of reasoning and beliefs CEI
Bianchini: ‘Analogy between Making and
Reasoning’
Crupi/Girotto: ‘Models of Rationality and
the Psychology of Reasoning: from Is to
Ought, and Back’
Feldbacher: ‘Meta-Inductive Strategy
Selection’
Coffee break
16.30-18.00 Aula Magna - Plenary lecture, John Norton: ‘A Material Dissolution of the Problem of Induction’
Closing of the conference
Aula 26
Logic I - PAOLI
Aula 26
Logic II - PAOLI
D’Agostini: ‘Coercive Logic. Paradoxes
and Undeniable Truths’
Ledda/Gil-Férez/Tsinakis: ‘The Failure of
Amalgamation Property for Semilinear
Varieties of Residuated Lattices’
Negri/Sbardolini: ‘Proof Analysis for
Lewis Counterfactuals’
Aula 26
Logic III - Paraconsistency - GIUNTINI
Ciuni/Omori: ‘Consistency Operator,
Just-True Operator and Paraconsistent
Weak Kleene’
Ciuni/Carrara: ‘Logical Consequence in
Paraconsistent Weak Kleene’
Piazza/Pulcini: ‘A Unified Setting for
Non-Monotonicity and Paraconsistency’
June 21
Satellite Event - Workshop 'Current Trends in the Philosophy of Logic'
Aula 'Conferenze'
9.30-9.45 Opening address
9.45-10.30 Hannes Leitgeb (LMU, Munich), "Probabilistic theories of type-free truth and probability"
10.35-11.20 Julien Murzi (University of Kent), "Instability and revenge"
11.20-11.50 Break
11.50-12.35 Elia Zardini (University of Barcelona), “Instability and contraction”
12.35-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.45 Dave Ripley (University of Connecticut), “Why I am not a noncontractivist”
14.50-15.35 Ole Hjortland (LMU, Munich): "Garson's model theoretic inferentialism"
15.35-16.05 Break
16.05-16.50 Peter Schroeder-Heister (University of Tuebingen), "Harmony in proof-theoretic semantics"

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