International Workshop, February 16-18, 2012
Center for Advanced Studies/ Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
LMU Munich, Germany
PROGRAM
Thursday, Feb 16
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome
9:30 – 10:30 Ramsey-sentence and Theoretical Description – Some Problems
Ulrich Gähde (University of Hamburg)
10:30 – 11:30 Incommensurability, Comparability and Non-reductive Ontological Relations
José L. Falguera and Xavier de Donato (University of Santiago de Compostela)
11.30 – 12:00 Coffee/Tea
12:00 – 12:40 Reduction between Incommensurable Theories in a Rigid Structuralist Framework
Christian Damböck (University of Vienna)
12:40 – 13:20 Structural Realism as an Epistemology for Structuralism
Thomas Meier (LMU Munich)
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:10 Linking Structuralism with Quantitative Science Studies
Tilman Massey (LMU Munich)
15:10 – 15:50 Models in Wind Energy Assessment
Graciana Petersen (University of Hamburg)
15:50 – 16:15 Coffee/Tea
16:10 – 17:15 Criteria for Empiricity and Theoreticity of Concepts
Gerhard Schurz (University of Duesseldorf)
17:30 Reception
Friday, Feb 17
9:30 – 10:30 Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories
Peter Gärdenfors & Frank Zenker (Lund)
10:30 – 11:30 A Syntactic View of Structuralism
Holger Andreas (LMU Munich)
11.30 – 12:00 Coffee/Tea
12:00 – 12:40 What’s Right with a Syntactic Approach to Theories and Models?
Sebastian Lutz (Utrecht University)
12:40 – 13:20 The Promise of Theories
Lena Hofer (LMU Munich)
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:10 On a Structuralist Framework of Belief Revision
A.V. Ravishankar Sarma (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
15:10 – 15:50 Towards a Structuralist Theory of Causation
Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland)
15:50 – 16:15 Coffee/Tea
16:10 – 17:15 Theoretical Terms and the Relativized A Priori
Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich)
20:00 Workshop-Dinner
Saturday, Feb 18
9:30 – 10:30 Applying Structuralism: The Case of Natural Selection
José Diez (University of Barcelona) &
Pablo Lorenzano (UNQ/CONICET, Quilmes)
10:30 – 11:30 Should the Structuralist View be Excluded from the Semantic Conception of Theories? A Critique of Suppe’s Critique
Pablo Lorenzano (UNQ/CONICET, Quilmes)
11.30 – 12:00 Coffee/Tea
12:00 – 12:40 Structuralism as an Instrument to Criticize Biologism in Psychology
Martin Hoffmann (University of Hamburg)
12:40 – 13:20 A Structuralist Approach to the Quantum Measurement Problem
Mariano Lastiri (University of Buenos Aires)
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 A Structuralist View of Processes in Science and Scientific Processes
Wolfgang Balzer & Klaus Manhart (LMU Munich)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea
16:00 – 17:00 Intertheoretical Relations and the Dynamics of Science
C. Ulises Moulines (LMU Munich)
17:00 – 17:15 Final Remarks
20:00 Dinner
ORGANIZERS
Holger Andreas (Ludwig-Maximilians-
Frank Zenker (Lund University, Department of Philosophy & Cognitive Science)
