Workshops and Conferences organised by PSE
The activities of PSE will cover a period of five years. Two large conferences will be held, one in the first and one in the fifth year; workshops will be organized in the remaining years.
The first general conference, on “The present situations in the philosophy of science”, took place in Vienna on December 18-20 2008 (see the programme and the report) and gave an opportunity to identify specific topics on which teams can liaise thereafter. Read the report published in the Journal for General Philosophy of Science.
On the second, third and fourth year teams organize separate workshops focused on the following general topics:
second year: "Explanation, prediction and confirmation";
third year: "Probability and statistics";
fourth year: "The sciences that philosophy has neglected".
On the fifth year a closing plenary conference will be devoted to "New directions in the philosophy of science". The conference will be held at the Bertinoro Conference Centre (University of Bologna) on October 17-21, 2012.
In 2009, PSE organized three workshops:
1. Teams A, D, and E organized the workshop "Physical and Philosophical
Perspectives on Probability, Explanation and Time", held on October 19-20
2009 at the Woudschoten Conference Centre, University of Utrecht (see the programme, the abstracts, and the report ). Read the report published in the Journal for General Philosophy of
Science
2. Team B organized the workshop "Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation in Biology and Medicine", held on October 2-4 2009 at the University of Konstanz (see the programme and the report).
3. Team C organized the workshop "Explanation, Prediction, and
Confirmation in the Social Sciences: Realm and Limit", held at the
University of Amsterdam, October 26-27 2009 (see the programme, the report and the papers). See also a recent interview with Wenceslao J. Gonzalez and the report published in the Journal for General Philosophy of Science second issue of 2010.
In 2010, PSE organized four workshops:
1. Team A: "Pluralism in the Foundations of Statistics", University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 9-10 (see the final report).
2. Teams B and D: joint workshop "Points of Contact between the Philosophy of Physics and the Philosophy of Biology: Probability, Laws and Natural Kinds", London School of Economics, London, UK, December 13-15 (see the final report).
3. Team C: "The Debate on Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences", University of A Coruña, Ferrol Campus, Spain, September 23-24 (see the final report).
4. Team E: Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and Statistics, University of Paderborn, July 9-10 (see the poster, the abstracts, and the final report).
In 2011, PSE organises the following initiatives:
Teams A and D: joint workshop "The Philosophy of Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence" (in collaboration with DiFos, LogiCCC Eurocore
programme), Ponta Delgado, Portugal, September 7-9 (see the description, the programme, the final report).
Team B: "Philosophy of Systems Biology" (in collaboration with PSBio and
PCSP), University of Aarhus, Denmark, August 18-20 (see the description, the programme, the abstracts, the final report).
Team C: "The Sciences of the Artificial vs. the Cultural and Social
Sciences", University of Bucharest, Romania, September 15-16 (see the
description, the programme, the final report).
Team E: "The Philosophy of the Sciences that Received Philosophy of Science
neglected: Historical Perspective", University of Montpellier, France,
November 18-19 (see the description, the programme, the poster, the abstracts).
A PSE-EPSA joint session on “New Challenges for Philosophy of Science" was held within the EPSA Conference (University of Athens,
October 5-8, 2011).
Speakers: D. Andler, R. Campaner, R. Frigg, O. Gjelsvik, T. Kuipers; chair:
M.C. Galavotti (see the website, the programme, the description, and the Power Point presentations: Andler’s presentation, Campaner’s
presentation, Frigg’s presentation, Gjelsvik’s presentation, Kuipers’ presentation).
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute
Vienna Circle, PSE and IVC are planning to organise a joint workshop on the
"Philosophy of Science in Europe - European Philosophy of Science and the
Viennese Heritage” (December 6-7, 2011). A number of members of PSE will
deliver papers: C. Chimisso, C. Debru, M. Esfeld, J. Faye, M. Ferrari, M.C.
Galavotti, O. Gjelsvik, M. Heidelberger, G. Irzik, T. Kuipers, L. Kvasz, E.
Nemeth, S. Psillos, W. Rabinowicz, M. Redei, M. Sintonen, F. Stadler, M.
Stöltzner, T. Uebel, G. Wheeler, G. Wolters. Other speakers will be invited
by Friedrich Stadler on behalf of the Institute Vienna Circle (see the website, the programme).
Other Initiatives involving PSE Members
