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Thursday, June 24
Registration: 11am to 2pm (Octagon atrium, Monument bldg)
Conference Opening: 1:30pm (Auditorium)
Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia; Past President, HOPOS) Welcome
Afternoon Sessions: 2pm to 5pm
Symposium 1: The Vienna Circle between Programmatic Aims and Political Commitment (Auditorium)
Tibor Frank (Eötvös Loránd U. Budapest) Chair
Günther Sandner (U. of Vienna) Otto Neurath and Politics: Political Intellectual or Social
Engineer?
Elisabeth Nemeth (U. of Vienna) From a Sociological Point of View. Can Philosophy of
Science be Political, and if so, in What Sense?
Donata Romizi (U. of Vienna) The Vienna Circle’s “Scientific World Conception” and the
Primacy of Practical Reason
Thomas Mormann (U. del Pais “Germany’s Defeat” as a Programme: On Carnap’s
Vasco) Political and Philosophical Beginnings
Panel 1: The Impact of Philosophy on Research (Popper Room)
Jane Maienschein (Arizona State U.) Competing Embryological Epistemologies: How Do We Study Development?
Alexandru Manafu (U. of Western The British Emergentist View On Chemistry
Ontario)
Joseph Martin (U. of Minnesota) Fundamentality and the Role of Philosophy in Later Twentieth Century Physics
Thomas Reydon (U. Hannover) A Brief History of Kinds
Panel 2: Epistemology (Gellner Room)
John McCaskey (Stanford U.) Whence the Uniformity Principle
Cornelis Menke (Bielefeld U.) John Stuart Mill on Predictions: the Whewell-Mill Debate
Axel Gelfert (National U. of Observation, Experiment, and Imagination: Elements of
Singapore) Edgar Allan Poe’s Philosophy of Science
Stefania Scardicchio (U. di Bari) Lewis and Goodman: The Debate on the Given Element in Empirical Knowledge
Symposium 2: On the Role of Experiment in Philosophy (Monument Bldg 203)
Benedek Láng (Budapest T.U.) Chair
Peter Anstey (U. of Otago) The Bacon-Boyle-Hooke View of Experiment
Alberto Vanzo (U. of Otago) Immanuel Kant on Experiment
Alexander Klein (Cal. State. U.) In Defence of Berkeley’s Empiricism? Galton’s Experiments
Concerning Abstract General Ideas
Panel 3: Kant (Nador 11 bldg, Room 004)
Katherine Dunlop (Brown U.) “Pure Intuition” in the Critique of Pure Reason and in the Later Elaboration of Kant’s Critical Philosophy
Jeremy Heis (U. Cal. Irvine) Kant on Parallel Lines
Berna Kilinc (Boğaziçi U.) Kant’s Notion of Objective Probability
Marius Stan (California Inst. The Pre-Critical Kant on the Relativity of Motion
of Technology)
Coffee Break: 5pm to 5:30pm (Auditorium atrium)
Plenary Session I: 5:30pm to 7pm (Auditorium)
Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute of Technology) Introduction
John Losee (Lafayette College) Three Post-World War II Theories about Causal Relatedness
Reception: Celebration of HOPOS Journal Launch 7pm (Auditorium atrium)
Sponsored by The University of Chicago Press
Friday, June 25
Steering Committee Meeting: 8am to 9am (Senate Room, Monument bldg)
Coffee Break: 9am to 9:30pm (Auditorium atrium)
Morning Sessions: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Panel 4: Early Logical Empiricism/Vienna Circle I (Popper Room)
Elisabeth Nemeth (U. of Vienna) Chair
Başak Aray (U. Paris 1) Knowledge Visualization through ISOTYPE as a Logical Empiricist Look on Science, Democracy and Education
Helmut Heit (TU Berlin) Positivist Post-Positivism Nietzsche's Reception in the Vienna Circle
Artur Koterski (Marie Curie- The Lviv-Warsaw School Contribution to Encyclopaedism
Sklodowska U.)
Symposium 3: Lakatos – Life and Work in Light of Unpublished Archival Documents (Auditorium)
Gábor Kutrovátz (Eötvös Loránd U. Lakatos’ Unchanging Views on Science
Budapest)
Miklos Redei (London School of Informal, Early Reception of Lakatos’ “Proof and
Economics) Refutations “
Michael Stöltzner (U. of South Mathematical Thought Experiments in Mach, Pólya, and
Carolina) Lakatos
András Máté (Eötvös Loránd U. The Formation of Lakatos’ Philosophy of Mathematics
Budapest)
Zsuzsanna Vajda (Miskolc U.) The Life Story of Imre Lakatos and the Tale of his Life Story
Panel 5: Neo-Kantianism & Conventionalism (Gellner Room)
Katherine Dunlop (Brown U.) Chair
Francesca Biagioli (U. di Torino) Hermann Cohen and Alois Riehl on Geometrical Empiricism
Gabriella Crocco (U. de Provence) Poincaré’s Neo-Kantianism and his Conception of the Continuum
Teru Miyake (Stanford U.) Three Notions of Underdetermination in Duhem
Michael T.Stuart (U. Toronto) The Role of Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem in the Establishment of Conventionalism
Panel 6: Philosophy of Social Science (Monument bldg 203)
Anna Wessely (ELTE) Chair
Heather Douglas (U. of Tennessee) Social Science, the Unity of Science, and Values of Science
Eric Schliesser (Leiden U.) The Weberian Roots of Chicago Economics
Andreas Georg Stascheit (KWI Crisis and Method: Edmund Husserl in Economic Thought
Essen)
Daria Drozdova (Higher School Alexandre Koyré Disciple of Emile Meyerson: The
of Economics Moscow) Immutability and Historicity of Human Reason
Panel 7: Experimentalism in the 17th century (Nador 11 bldg, Room 004)
Andrew Aberdein (Florida Inst. of Francis Bacon, Prerogative Instances, and Argumentation Technology) Schemes
John McCaskey (Stanford U.) Bacon’s Idols and Harvey’s Eggs
Kristian Camilleri (U. of Thought Experiments in Early Modern Science
Melbourne)
Tamás Demeter (Max Planck Inst.) Lessons from the Debate on the Demonstrativity of the
& Gábor Zemplén (Budapest U. of Experimentum Crucis —or how to be charitable to
Technology) controversies
Symposium 4: Proclus Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements and its Reception in Early Modern Times (Nador 11 bldg, Room 006)
Jim Lennox (U. of Pittsburgh) Chair
Bernardo Mota (Technische U. Re-reading the Role of Proclus in Quaestio de Certitudine Berlin) Mathematica
Guy Claessens (De Wulf-Masion The Renaissance Reception of Proclus’ Geometrical
Centre for Philosophy) Imagination
Pieter d’Hoine (De Wulf- Mansion Proclus’ Argument from Imperfection
Centre for Philosophy)
Orna Harari (Tel Aviv U.) Aristotelian Demonstrations and Neo-Platonic Ontology: The Notion of Proof in Proclus’ Commentary on Euclid’s Elements
Business Meeting: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (Auditorium)
Open to all members
Afternoon Sessions: 2pm to 5pm
Panel 8: Early Logical Empiricism/Vienna Circle II (Auditorium)
Sebastian Lutz (Utrecht U.) Two Constants in Carnap's View on Scientific Theories
Matthias Neuber (U. Tübingen) Invariance, Structure, Measurement – Eino Kaila and the History of Logical Empiricism
Flavia Padovani (U. of British Probability between Fiction and Reality: Reichenbach's
Columbia) Correspondence with Paul Hertz
Thomas Uebel (U. of Manchester) Pragmatism and the Vienna Circle
Symposium 5: Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem: Tradition and Revolution in Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science (Gellner Room)
Christina Chimisso (The Open U. The Life Concepts of Georges Canguilhem’s Historical
Milton Keynes) Epistemology
Teresa Castelao-Lawless (Grand Metaphysical and Conceptual Stories of the Scientific Mind
Valley State U.)
Jean-Sébastien Bolduc (U. de The Figure of the Scientist in Bachelard’s Philosophy of
Bourgogne) Science
Panel 9: Social Character of Inquiry (Popper Room)
Will Krieger (U. of Rhode Island) Chair
Alan Richardson (U. of British Structural Objectivity and the “Emotional Needs” of
Columbia) Philosophy: Logical Empiricism as Virtue Epistemology
Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute Science and the Social Contract in Renouvier
of Technology)
Torsten Wilholt (Bielefeld U.) The Birth of Scientific Freedom out of the Spirit of Revolution: The Freedom of Science in 19th Century German Political Thought
Eduard Glas (Delft U. of Tech.) Between Pólya and Popper: Lakatos’ Heuristic
Panel 10: Philosophy of Physics: Relativity & Quantum Mechanics (Nador 11 bldg, Room 004)
Miklós Rédei (LSE) Chair
Marco Giovanelli (U. di Torino) Indiscernibility: On Leibniz's Influence on the Logical Empiricist Interpretation of General Relativity
Elise Crull (U. of Notre Dame) Grete Hermann and the Gamma-Ray Microscope Gedankenexperiment
Jeongmin Lee (School of Humanities Complementarity, Classical Concepts, and the Relativized
and Social Sciences, KAIST) A priori
Panel 11: 17th Century Philosophy of Science: Mathematics, Mechanics and Life (Nador 11 bldg, Room 006)
Helen Hattab (U. of Houston) Chair
Eric Audureau (CEPERC) Descartes Metaphysics and the Mathematical Concept of the Gender of a Curve
Madalina Giurgea (U. of The Concept of Time in Descartes’ System of Thought
Bucharest)
Peter Distelzweig (U. of 17th Century Teleo-Mechanics in Anatomy: Muscle,
Pittsburgh) Mathematics and Animal Locomotion
Coffee Break: 5pm to 5:30pm (Auditorium atrium)
Plenary Session II: 5:30pm to 7pm (Auditorium)
James Lennox (U. of Pittsburgh) Introduction
Rose-Mary Sargent (Merrimack From Bacon to Banks: The Vision and the Realities of
College) Pursuing Science for the Common Good
Saturday, June 26
Steering Committee Meeting: 8am to 9am (Senate Room)
Coffee Break: 9am to 9:30am (Auditorium atrium)
Morning Sessions: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Panel 12: 19th century philosophy of science (Auditorium)
Karl Hall (CEU) Chair
Maarten van Dyck (Ghent U.) Haunted by Circular Motions: Koyré and Drake on Metaphysics and the Scientific Revolution
Michael Heidelberger (U. Tübingen) Maxwell’s Method of ‘Physical Analogy’ and Structural Realism
Don Howard (U. of Notre Dame) Boltzmann Edits Maxwell
Amirouche Moktefi (IRIST What the Tortoise Never Said to Achilles
Strasbourg)
Symposium 6: Context of Discovery, Context of Justification and the Program of Rational Reconstruction (Popper Room)
Friedrich Stadler (U. of Vienna) Chair
Hans-Joachim Dahms (U. of Vienna) Kuhn, Feyerabend and the Structural View of Theories
Michael Schorner (U. of Innsbruck) The Impact of the Descriptive Approach in Philosophy of
Science in Germany
Christian Damböck (U. of Vienna) Thomas Kuhn’s Concept of Incommensurability and the
Stegmüller/Sneed Program as a Formal Approach to that
Concept
Christoph Limböck-Lilienau Theory-ladenness of Observation and the New Psychology
(U. of Vienna) of Perception
Panel 13: Axioms, Models, Modeling (Gellner Room)
Anastasios Brenner (U. Mont- Axiomatizing Physical Theory: Kirchhoff, Mach, Poincaré
pellier III) and the Vienna Circle
Christopher French (U. of Reichenbach, von Kries, and Boltzmann on the Justification
British Columbia) for Objective Probabilities
Yvon Gauthier (U. of Montreal) The Notion of Analytical Apparatus
Panel 14: Aristotle and Theophrastus (Nador 11 bldg, Room 004)
István Bodnár (CEU and ELTE) Chair
Boris Hennig (Humboldt U.) & Aristotle’s Argument Against Functionalism
Catherine Stinson (U. of Pittsburgh)
James Lennox (U. of Pittsburgh) Aristotle on Norms of Scientific Inquiry
Pierre Pellegrin (CNRS Paris) Aristotle as a Scientist
Tiberiu Popa (Butler U.) Fiery Disposition: Notes on Scientific Method in Theophrastus’ De Igne
Symposium 7: Leibnizianism and Anti-Leibnizianism in 18th thought: Life, Mind and Freedom (Nador 11 bldg, Room 006)
Michael V. Griffin (CEU) Chair
Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia U.) Georg Ernst Stahl and the Curious History of Leibnizian ‘Vitalism’
Brandon C. Look (U. of Kentucky) Euler’s Anti-Leibnizian Critique: Monadism, Dynamism and Rationalism in the ‘Letters to a German Princess’
Nigel DeSouza (CREUM) Herder’s Leibnizian Foundations
Charles Wolfe (U. of Sydney) Why was there no Controversy over Life in the Scientific Revolution?
Journal Editorial Board Lunch: 12:30pm to 2pm (Senate Room)
Afternoon Sessions: 2pm to 5pm
Panel 15: Pragmatism (Auditorium)
Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute of Technology) Chair
Peter Olen (U. of South Florida) Pragmatism and Positivism as Scientific Philosophy? Reconsidering the 1930s
Tibor Solymosi (Southern Illinois Continuity, Naturalism, and the Subject-Matter of Science in
U. at Carbondale) John Dewey’s Darwinian Philosophy of Science
Richard Creath (Arizona State U.) Problems and Changes in Quine’s Discussion of Simplicity
Symposium 8: Variations on Kant – Modifications of the A Priori in the 1920s and 30s (Popper Room)
Dominik Gerstdorfer (WPK Uexküll between Kant and Quine
Tübingen)
Daniel Bosse (U. Tübingen) The Possibility of an A Priori in Rudolf Carnap’s Logischer
Aufbau der Welt
Tom Poljansek (U. Tübingen) The “Apriori of Preparation” – Gaston Bachelard as a Post-
Kantian
Stump, David J. (U. of San Reconsidering the Logical Positivist Rejection of A Priori
Francisco) Knowledge
Symposium 9A: The Changing Nature and Role of Mathematical Axioms (Nador 11 bldg, Room 006)
Janet Folina (Macalester College) Axioms, Evidence and Truth/Axiomatization and Abstraction
& Jean-Pierre Marquis (U. de Mont-
réal)
Symposium 9B: The Early Feyerabend (Nador 11 bldg, Room 006)
Eric Oberheim (HU Berlin) Falling in and out of Falsificationism. Feyerabend’s Relation
to Popper
Matteo Collodel (U. “Ca’ Foscari” Wasn’t Feyerabend Really a Popperian After All?
Venezia)
Panel 16: Newtonian Foundations (Nador 11 bldg, Room 004)
Eric Schliesser (Leiden U.) Chair
Steffen Ducheyne (Ghent U.) Facing the Limits of Deductions from Phenomena:
Newton’s Quest for a Mathematical-Demonstrative Optics
Hylarie Kochiras (U. of Buffalo) Two Senses of Activity, and Gravity in Newton’s Treatise
Michael White (Arizona State U.) Newton’s Principia Mathematica: Mathematics but not
Natural Philosophy?
Panel 17: Cartesian Empiricism (Gellner Room)
Delphine Bellis (Utrecht U. / Rethinking the Place of Experience in Cartesian Natural
Paris-Sorbonne U.) Philosophy: the Case of Regius
Patricia Easton (Claremont The Father of Cartesian Empiricism: Robert Desgabets on
Graduate U.) the Physics and Metaphysics of Blood Transfusion
Tammy Nyden (Grinnell College) De Volder and the Physics Theatre: Experimental Pedagogy, Cartesian Physics
Mihnea Dobre (Radboud U.) Jacques Rohault and the Use of Experiment in Cartesian Physics
Symposium 10: The Medicine of the Mind and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England: Francis Bacon’s Intellectual Background (Monument bldg 203)
Dana Jalobeanu (U. of Bucharest) Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Medicine of the) Mind: The Novelty of Bacon’s Project Revisited
Sorana Corneanu (U. of Bucharest) The Generic Context of Francis Bacon’s “New
Logic”
Dan Garber (Princeton U.) Commentary and chair
Coffee Break: 5pm to 5:30pm (Auditorium atrium)
Plenary Session III: 5:30pm to 7pm (Auditorium)
Alan Richardson (U. of British Introduction
Columbia)
Friedrich Steinle (TU Berlin) The History of Philosophy of Experiment: New Perspectives
Banquet: 8pm
Location: The Danube Palace Cultural Center (across the street from CEU)
Sunday, June 27
Coffee Break: 9am to 9:30am (Auditorium atrium)
Morning Sessions: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Symposium 11: Interpretation, Model, and Axiomatization in Carnap’s Philosophy. A Reassessment of Carnap’s Contribution to the history of semantics (Popper Room)
Georg Schiemer (U. of Vienna) Carnap’s Reception of Fraenkel’s Axiom of Restriction
Ronan de Calan (U. Paris 1) Carnap and Hilbert on the Axiomatization of the Non-
Mathematical Fields
Erich Reck (UC at Riverside) Carnap and Tarski: From Logicism to Model Theory
Pierre Wagner (U. Paris 1) Carnap and Kemeny on State-Descriptions, Models, and
Interpretations
Panel 18: 19th and 20th-century Philosophy of Science (Auditorium)
Gábor Zemplén (Budapest Technical U.) Chair
Dani Hallet (U. of British Columbia) The Legacy of Goethe's Farbenlehre
Saul Fisher (Hunter College) Philosophical Foundations of a Science of Architecture, 1886-1954
Panel 19: Philosophy of Mathematics (Gellner Room)
Eduardo Giovannini (U. Paderborn) Remarks on the Notion of ‘Spatial Intuition’ in Hilbert's
Early Works on the Foundation of Geometry
Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) Hilbert's Method of Analogy: Signs and Axiomatics in
Physics and Mathematics
Sean Walsh (U. of Notre Dame) Kronecker on Arithmetization, and His Relation to
Helmholtz & Kirchhoff
Panel 20: Cartesian Metaphysics in Natural Philosophical Context: Descartes on Mathematics, Medicine, and Meteorology (Monument bldg 203)
Mary Domski (U. of New Mexico) The Mathematics and Metaphysics of Descartes’ Mature
Philosophy
Gideon Manning (California Inst. Connecting the Roots and the Branches: Metaphysics
of Technology) and Medicine in Descartes’ Philosophy
Craig Martin (U. of Oakland) Forms and Qualities in Descartes’ Meteorological
Explanations
Dan Garber (Princeton U.) Comments and chair
Panel 21: Forms of Monism in the 17th Century (Nador 11 bldg, Room 004)
Márta Fehér (Budapest Technical U.) Chair
Alison Peterman Spinoza's Alleged Explanatory Materialism
Eric Schliesser (Leiden U.) Spinoza’s Criticism of Mathematical and Experimental
Science
Edward Slowik (Winona State U.) The Emergence of Leibnizian Space: Whither Relationism?
Helen Hattab (U. of Houston) Gorlaeus’ Atomist Monism and Its Implications for Scientific
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