Workshops and Conferences
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 ).
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 to appear in the Journal for General Philosophy of Science, second issue of 2010.
In 2010, PSE will organize four workshops:
1. Team A: "Pluralism in the Foundations of Statistics", University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 9-10.
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 13-14.
3. Team C: "The Debate on Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences", University of A Coruña, Ferrol Campus, Spain, September 23-24.
4. Team E: Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and Statistics, University of Paderborn, July 9-10.
