Workshop on Experimental Philosophy of Science
October 15-16, 2019 at Aarhus University in Denmark
Experimental methods in philosophy -- understood as the conduction of surveys on philosophical questions and the use of statistical analysis -- were pioneered in the early 2000s and have been on the rise ever since. Experimental philosophy is not uncontroversial, but it is undeniable that it has forced philosophers to critically reflect on traditional ‘armchair’ philosophizing. In the philosophy of science experimental approaches have hitherto been comparably dormant. This is in some sense surprising: one may think that philosophers of science would be particularly receptive to approaches that promise more scientificity. It is the aim of this conference to explore reasons for this slow uptake and to encourage ways of bringing experimental methods to bear also in the philosophy of science by discussing opportunities and problems.
Conference location: "Studenterhus" in Fredrik Nielsens Vej 4.
See here for a map of the studenterhus.
Attendance is free, but please notify the organiser well in advance (sks@css.au.dk).
Conference pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DwhzsV7q1BUzgZqNA
Conference tweets: https://twitter.com/hashtag/XPhiSci2019?src=hashtag_click
| Tuesday, October 15 (room M1): | ||
| 9:10-9:15 | Welcome and introduction | |
| 9:15-10:05 | Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) | |
| 10:05-10:20 | Coffee | |
| 10:20-11:10 | Deena Weisberg (Villanova University) | Public Understanding of Neuroscience: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives |
| 11:20-12:10 | Michiru Nagatsu (Helsinki) | Experimental Philosophy of Economics: Explaining why economics is so difficult |
| 12:10-13:15 | Lunch in cafeteria | |
| 13:15-14:05 | Moti Mizrahi (Florida Tech) | The Case Study Method in Philosophy of Science: An Empirical Study |
| 14:05-14:25 | Coffee | |
| 14:25-15:15 | Carlos Santana (Utah) | |
| 15:25-16:15 | Charles Pence (Louvain) | |
| 18:00 | Dinner at Restaurant Pondus | |
| Wednesday, October 16 (room PH): | ||
| 9:15-10:05 | James Beebe (Buffalo) | Are Scientists and Philosophers of Science Scientific Realists? |
| 10:05-10:20 | Coffee | |
| 10:20-11:10 | Samuel Schindler (Aarhus) | |
| 11:20-12:10 | Andrew Shtulman (Occidental College, LA) | |
| 12:10-13:15 | Lunch in cafeteria | |
| 13:15-14:05 | Peter Mattig (Wuppertal) | Searching for the Unknown Unknown: A Turn to Data Driven Methods at the LHC |
| 14:05-14:25 | Coffee | |
| 14:25-15:15 | Sam Johnson (Bath) | Cognition as sense-making: Toward a domain-general explanatory logic |
| 15:25-16:15 | Thomas Blanchard (Illinois Wesleyan University) | |
