Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation:
A Challenge to Philosophy of Science
Friday-Sunday, 15-17 October 2010
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required.
To register, please contact rubus@pitt.edu.
Friday Morning
8:30
9:00
9:15
10:15
11:05
11:30
12:20
1:10
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Continental Breakfast
Opening Ceremonies
Allan Franklin,
University of Colorado, Keynote Speaker
Experiment, Then and Now
Statistical Inferences in Experiments Revisited
Chair: Deborah Mayo, Virginia Tech
Samuel Schindler, University of Konstanz
The Conundrum of Data Reliability
Break
Slobodan Perovic, University of Belgrade
The Theory-ladenness in the Experimental Context
Roger Stanev, University of British Columbia
Statistical Evidence and the Conduct of Clinical Trials: A Challenge to Philosophies of Statistics
Lunch
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Friday Afternoon
3:00
3:50
4:40
5:10
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Philosophy of Experimentation: New Challenges and Approaches
Chair: Ronald Laymon, Ohio State University
Deborah Mayo,Virginia Tech
Solving Duhem’s Problem: What Might a General Experimentalist Approach Look Like?
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
Can the Null be Accepted?
Break
Tobias Breidenmoser, University of Rostock
The Microtrabecular Lattice, an Epistemology of Scientific Experimentation and the Concept of Robustness |
Saturday Morning
8:30
9:00
10:00
10:50
11:20
12:10
1:00 |
Continental Breakfast
Marcel Weber, University of Konstanz
Keynote Speaker
Modeling and Experimenting
Chair: Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
Ronald Giere, University of Minnesota
Testing Theoretical Models
Break
Andrea Loettgers, Caltech
Tarja Knuuttila, University of Helsinki
Modeling and Experimenting: The Combinatorial Strategy in Synthetic Biology
Alan Love, University of Minnesota
Modeling Experimental Evidence in Developmental Biology: In Situ Hybridization and Serial Idealization
Lunch |
Saturday Afternoon
2:30
3:20
4:10
4:40
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Rethinking the Role of Experiments I
Chair: Paul Teller, University of California, Davis
Uljana Feest, TU Berlin
Experimentation and the Skeptical Challenge: The Role of Methodological Maxims
Bert Leuridan, Ghent University
Selective Experiments as a Middle Course Between Manipulative Experiments and Prospective Designs
Break
William Kallfelz, New Mexico State University
Clifford Algebraic Computational Fluid Dynamics: A New Class of Experiments |
Sunday Morning
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Continental Breakfast |
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Rethinking the Role of Experiments II
Chair: Samuel Schindler, University of Konstanz |
9:00 |
Matthew J. Brown, University of Texas, Dallas
From the Experimenter’s Regress to Evidence-Based Policy: The Functional Complexity of Scientific Evidence |
9:50 |
Ioannis Votsis, Philosophisches Institut
University of Düsseldorf
The Logic of Crucial Experiments |
10:40 |
Break |
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Chair: Slobodan Perovic, University of Belgrade |
11:10 |
Jacob Stegenga, University of California, San Diego
Varieties of Evidential Experience |
12:00 |
Romina Zuppone, University of Buenos Aires - Cancelled
The Many Senses of the Dictum: Experiment Has a Life of Its Own |
Program Committee
Slobodan Perovic, University of Belgrade
Allan Franklin, University of Colorado
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh
Wendy Parker, Ohio University
Marcel Weber, University of Konstanz
Sponsors
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Generous financial support for this
conference has been provided by
the Harvey and Leslie Wagner Endowment.
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