Workshops and Conferences
Physical and Philosophical Perspectives on Probability, Explanation and Time
University of Utrecht
October 19-20 2009
Workshop jointly organised by teams A, D, and E
Monday 19 October
12.00 - 14.00 Informal lunch
14.00 – 17.30 Parallel sessions
Session A1: Recent Work on Confirmation
1. Greg Wheeler (New University of Lisbon): Coherence, Confirmation, and Causation
2. Jon Williamson (University of Kent): An Objective Bayesian Account of Confirmation
3. Jan-Willem Romeijn (University of Groningen): Confirmation and Statistics
4. Franz Dietrich (University of Maastricht): Modelling Reasons Underlying Preference
Session D1: Determinism and Probability
1. Klaas Landsman (University of Nijmegen): Probability and Truth in Quantum Mechanics
2. Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona): Can Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanical Probabilities Be Objective?
3. Dennis Dieks (University of Utrecht): The Gibbs Paradox Revisited
4. Anouk Barberousse (ENS, Paris): The Mathematics of Approximation and Their Use in Explanation
1. Berna Kilinc (Bogazici University): Kant on Scientific Explanation
2. Elisabeth Nemeth (University of Vienna): Zilsel's Adoption of Mach's Conception of Scientific Laws
3. Michael Stoeltzner (University of Wuppertal): Development of the Pragmatic Justification of Induction
4. Artur Koterski (Marie Curie – Sklodowska University, Lublin): The Rise and Fall of Falsificationism
19.30 Dinner
Tuesday 20 October
9.30 – 13.00 Parallel sessions
Session A2: Explanation and Scientific Realism
1. John Worrall (London School of Economics):The No-Miracles Argument: _what_ argument?
2. Stathis Psillos (University of Athens): The Limits of the No-Miracles Argument
3. Adam Grobler (Opole University): An Explication of the Use of IBE
4. Joke Meheus (University of Ghent): Formal Logics for Abduction
1. Mauro Dorato (University of Rome 3): Can We Have an Objective Now in Spacetime Physics?
2. Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University, Cracow): A Locus for "Now" - A Modal Perspective
3. Henrik Zinkernagel (University of Granada): Cosmic Time and Quantum Fundamentalism
4. Jeremy Butterfield (Trinity College, Cambridge): Against Pointillisme: a Call to Arms
1. Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna): Historical Explanation in the Methodenstreit of the Historians
2. Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester): Geisteswissenschaft in the Methodenstreit of Economics
3. Eric Schliesser (University of Leiden): The Stigler-Kuhn Correspondence and the Philosophical Prehistory of Prediction in Chicago Economics
4. Gurol Irzik (Bogazici University) and Peter Spirtes (Carnegie Mellon University): A History of Causal Modelling
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 17.30 Joint sessions
Joint Session AD3: Quantum Probabilities1. Thomas Mueller (University of Utrecht): Probabilities in a Branching Framework
2. Maximilian Schlosshauer (University of Copenhagen): Quantum Probabilities from Entanglement?
3. Michiel Seevink (University of Utrecht): Probability and Bell-Type Inequalities
4. Guido Bacciagaluppi (University of Aberdeen): Further Thoughts on Stochastic Einstein Locality
1. Maria Carla Galavotti (University of Bologna): Probability and Pragmatism
2. Graham Stevens (University of Manchester): Russell on Nondemonstrative Inference
3. Jan Sprenger (University of Tilburg): Hempel and the Paradoxes of Confirmation
4. Pierre Wagner (University of Paris - Sorbonne): Carnap's Theories of Confirmation
18.30 Dinner
20.00-21.00 Closing talk
Patrick Suppes (University of Stanford): Neglect of Independence and Randomness in the Axioms of Probability
