All the talks will take place at the Aula, Campus of the University of Vienna at the Historical Campus of the University of Vienna (Spitalgasse 2-4, Court 1, Entrance 1.11) 9 am to 7.45 pm.
Invited Speakers:
Jean Gayon (Sorbonne)
Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University)
Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute Berlin)
Thursday June 26
8:00-10:00 Registration
9.00 – 9.10 Welcome and Opening:
Elisabeth Nemeth (Dean of Faculty of Philosophy and Education)
John D. Norton (University of Pittsburgh, Co-Conveners &HPS Committee)
Friedrich Stadler (Institute Vienna Circle and Local Organizers)
Chair: Theodore Arabatzis (University of Athens)
9.10 – 9.50: Anjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame)
A Case Study of Case Studies: Scientific Realism and Integrated HPS
9.50 – 10.30: Klodian Coko (Indiana University)
Jean Perrin and the Philosophers’ Stories: A Case Study on the Role of Case Studies in &HPS
10.30 – 10.50 Coffee Break
Chair: Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge)
10.50 – 11.30: Katherina Kinzel (University of Vienna)
Narrative and Evidence: on the Role of Historical Case Studies in the Philosophy of Science
11.30 – 12.10: Mauricio Suarez (University of Madrid)
The Modelling Attitude and its Roots in 19th Century Science
12.10 – 12.50: Richard Staley (University of Cambridge)
"Beyond the Conventional Boundaries of Physics”: On Relating Ernst Mach’s Philosophy to his Teaching and Research in the 1870s and 1880s
12.50 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Chair: Alan Shapiro (University of Minnesota)
14.00 – 14.40: Thomas Nickles (University of Nevada)
Scientific Discovery and the End-of-History Fallacy
14.40 – 15.20: Samuel Schindler (Aarhus University)
Scientific Discovery: That-what’s and What-that’s
Chair: Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester)
15:20 - 16:00: Richard Creath (Arizona State University)
The Unity of Science: Two Hundred Years of Controversy
16.00 – 16.20 Coffee Break
16.20 – 17.00: Raphael Scholl, Kärin Nickelsen, Tim Räz
(University of Bern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, University of Lausanne)
Why the Dilemma of Case Studies Misses the Point: Towards an Explicit Methodology for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
Chair: Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna)
17.00 – 18.00 Invited lecture:
Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University)
Looking at Cells around 1900: Seeing Complex Systems
18.30 Reception at Aula
Friday June 27
8:00-10:00 Registration
Chair: Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Berlin)
9.00 – 9.40: Jutta Schickore (Indiana University)
"Control(led) Experiments” in Historical and Philosophical Perspective
9.40 – 10.20: Monica Solomon (University of Notre Dame)
Retreading the Path of Science: the Case of Independent Motions
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break
Chair: Manfred Laubichler (Arizona State University)
10.40 – 11.20: Teru Miyake (Nanyang Technological University)
Scientific Inference and the Earth’s Interior: Harold Jeffreys and Dorothy Wrinch at Cambridge
11.20 – 12.00: Laura Georgescu (Ghent University)
Experiments and Concepts in Gilbert’s De magnete
Chair: Elisabeth Nemeth (University of Vienna)
12.00 – 12.40: Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester)
Values, Facts and Methodologies: A Case Study in Philosophy of Economics
12.40 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 14.40: Amy A. Fisher (University of Puget Sound)
Reconsidering Priestley’s Defense of Phlogiston
Chair: Richard Dawid (University of Vienna)
14.40 – 15.20: Haixin Dang (University of Pittsburgh)
William Henry Bragg and the Nature of X-Rays
15.20 – 16.00: Grant Fisher and Buhm Soon Park
(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))
Checks-and-balances: Orbital Symmetry and Quantitative Methods in Late Twentieth Century Quantum Chemistry
16.00 – 16.20 Coffee Break
Chair: Jed Z. Buchwald (California Institute of Technology)
16.20 – 17.00: Alan Chalmers (University of Sydney)
Qualitative Novelty and the Scientific Revolution: The Emergence of the Concept of Pressure
17.00 – 17.40: Henk W. de Regt (VU University Amsterdam)
Kelvin’s Dictum Revived: the Intelligibility of Mechanisms
17.40 – 18.00: Break
Chair: John D. Norton (University of Pittsburgh)
18.00 – 19.00 Invited lecture:
Jürgen Renn
(Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin)
On the Evolution of Knowledge: From Cooperative Action to Science
20.00: Conference Dinner
Saturday June 28
8:00-10:00 Registration
Chair: David Miller (Iowa State University)
9.00 – 9.40: Ann-Sophie Barwich (Konrad Lorenz Institute)
Sensing the Unknown: Historicising the Discoverability of the Olfactory Receptors within the Life on an Experimental System
9.40 – 10.20: Guido Caniglia (Arizona State University)
Mathematical Theory, Natural Experiments and Ovarian Dissections:
The Epistemology of Hamilton’s Work on Tropical Social Wasps (1963-1968)
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break
Chair: Jutta Schickore (Indiana University)
10.40 – 12.40: Symposium:
Introspection and the Problem of the Stimulus-Error: Historical and Contemporary Debates
10.40 – 11.20: Uljana Feest
(Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Stimulus Error and the Red Herring of Introspection
11.20 – 12.00: Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania)
The Stimulus Error and Experimental Design: The Manipulation of Perceptual “Set”
12.00 – 12.40: Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh)
The Stimulus-Error, “Equivocal Correlation” and Perceptual Constancy
12.40 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Chair: Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University)
14.00 – 14.40: Axel Gelfert and Jacob Mok
(National University of Singapore)
Styles of Reasoning in Biology: The Case of Models in Membrane and Cell Biology
14.40 – 15.20: Laura Nuño de la Rosa (Konrad Lorenz Institute)
The Taxonomical and the Morphological Concepts of Type: Back to Aristotle
15.20 – 16.00: Joeri Witteveen (Utrecht University)
Negotiating a Causal-historical Theory of Reference: the Emergence of the ‘Type Method’ in 19th Century Biological Taxonomy
16.00 – 16.20 Coffee Break
Chair: Katherina Kinzel (University of Vienna)
16.20 – 17.00: Dunja Šešelja and Christian Straßer
(Ghent University)
Heuristic Reevaluation of the Bacterial Hypothesis of Peptic Ulcer Disease in the 1950s
17.00 – 17.40: Mathieu Charbonneau (Konrad Lorenz Institute)
Mechanical Molecular Models and Haptic Reasoning
17.40 – 18.20: Daniel J. Nicholson and Richard Gawne
(University of Exeter, Duke University)
Neither Logical Empiricism nor Vitalism, but Organicism: What the Philosophy of Biology Was
18.20 – 18.40 Break
Chair: Alan Chalmers (University of Sydney)
18.40 – 19.40 Invited lecture:
Jean Gayon (Sorbonne)
Natural Selection vs. Descent with Modification: What Comes First? Reflections on Darwin and Sober
19.40 - 20.00: Summary / Closings