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Frontier in the Philosophy of Specific Sciences 19 - 20 August 2017 Tsinghua University Tsinghua, China
PROGRAM
DAY ONE, August 19
9:00
Opening Ceremony
9:20
Sandy Mitchell: Perspectivism, Pluralism and Pragmatism: Lessons from Protein Science
10:20
Tea break
10:30
Xiang Huang: Modeling Scientific Rationality with Heuristic Structures
11:30
Shan Gao: A Particle Ontological Interpretation of the Wave Function
12:30
Morning Session ends
14:00
James Lennox: Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits?
15:00
Jianhui Li: Isn’t Evolution Progress?
16:00
16:15
Brad Weslake: Fitness and Variance
17:15
Shijiang Yang: How to characterize the individuality of holobionts?
18:15
Afternoon Session ends
DAY TWO, August 20
Edouard Machery: Is there any hope for classical statistics?
10:00
10:15
Feng Yu: Two Visual Systems and Egocentric Character of Visual Consciousness
11:15
Shaohua Xue: The Differences of Space Experience: Mary’s Room Argument in Virtual Reality
Malcolm Forster: Predictive Brains and the Principle of Common Cause
Stefan Petkov: Unification, contradiction, integration in the case of predator-prey modelling
Wei Wang: Case Study Method Revisited: Overgeneralization or a Straw in the Wind
Zhu Xu: Self-knowledge and Objectivity in Participant Observation
Closing Ceremony