SILFS PG CONFERENCE 2025: SILFS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 2025
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, June 11th Thursday, June 12th Friday, June 13th

Wednesday, June 11th

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10:45-11:55 Session 2A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (I)
10:45
Explaining the Black Box: Rule Extraction, Statistical Inference and Scientific Explanation in AI (abstract)
11:20
Truthlikeness, Machine Learning, and the Bias-Variance Trade-off (abstract)
10:45-11:55 Session 2B: Parallel Session: Modal Logic
10:45
Modalism and Proof-Theoretic Modal Inferentialism (abstract)
11:20
Relational and algebraic semantics for modal weak Kleene logics (abstract)
12:05-13:15 Session 3A: Parallel Session: General Pilosophy of Science
12:05
Pseudoscience as a Cognitive Closure Mechanism: Homogeneity, Negationism, and the Illusion of Understanding (abstract)
12:40
Progress Crucial Realism (abstract)
12:05-13:15 Session 3B: Parallel Session: Conditionals
12:05
Infectious Cooper-Cantwell and De Finetti Conditionals (abstract)
12:40
Unrestricted Connexive Conditionals, over Classical Logic (abstract)
14:45-16:30 Session 4A: Parallel Session: Social Epistemology
14:45
Can Scientific Communities Profit from Evaluative Diversity? (abstract)
15:20
Hacking and Latour, Latour and Hacking (abstract)
15:55
Brain Decoding and Operational Progress in Neuroscience (abstract)
14:45-16:30 Session 4B: Parallel Session: Logic and Metaphysics
14:45
A Stage Theory for Structured Properties and Propositions (abstract)
15:20
Type Theory as Metaphysics (abstract)
15:55
Morita Equivalence and Persistence (abstract)
Thursday, June 12th

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09:15-10:15 Session 6: Keynote: Federico Laudisa
09:15
From locality to local realism (and back): on the vexed history of the Bell theorem
10:45-11:55 Session 7A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (II)
10:45
Algorithmic Epistemic Fairness: Towards a Formalization of Epistemic Injustice in Modelling Opinion Dynamics (abstract)
11:20
Over-reliance in AI-assisted decision making: a Bayesian analysis (abstract)
10:45-11:55 Session 7B: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Mathematics
10:45
Unfolding Unfolding - A Constructivist Approach to Potentialism (abstract)
11:20
On Cantor's domain Principle and the Semantics of Potentialism (abstract)
12:05-13:15 Session 8A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Social Science
12:05
Causal-Mechanistic Reasoning in Evidence-Based Policy (abstract)
12:40
The Epistemology of Policy Advice: Insights from the Italian Case. (abstract)
12:05-13:15 Session 8B: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Physics (I)
12:05
Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics (abstract)
12:40
Not-so-Absolute Cosmic Simultaneity (abstract)
14:45-16:30 Session 9A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Medicine and Life Sciences
14:45
Imagining Evolutionary Possible Worlds: How Life’s Alternative Histories Shape Evolutionary Science (abstract)
15:20
Precision Medicine and Wearable Medical Devices: Promises and Dangers (abstract)
15:55
Human Evolution and the Hunt for a Primate Model: A Lesson in Analogical Model Selection (abstract)
14:45-16:30 Session 9B: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Logic
14:45
Beyond Validity: A Generalization of the Collapse Argument Against Logical Pluralism (abstract)
15:20
Logical Systems and Logical Theories (abstract)
15:55
Outside the purview of truth and falsity (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 10: Keynote: Massimo Pigliucci
17:00
Philosophy of pseudoscience: Where are we now, and how did we get here?
Friday, June 13th

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09:15-10:15 Session 11: Keynote: Costanza Larese
09:15
Hintikka’s conception of syntheticity as the introduction of new individuals
10:45-11:55 Session 12A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Physics (II)
10:45
Unveiling Biases in Physics: the Case of Higher-Order Equations and the Quest for a Theory of Quantum Gravity (abstract)
11:20
Conceptions of Emergence in Quantum Gravity: Challenges and Perspectives (abstract)
10:45-11:55 Session 12B: Parallel Session: Representation and Aboutness
10:45
On the Role of Denotation in Contemporary Theories of Representation (abstract)
11:20
Topic Theoretic Invariantism (abstract)
12:05-13:15 Session 13A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (III)
12:05
Why Centaur is Not a Unified Model of Human Cognition (abstract)
12:40
Rethinking the design stance: a cognitivist perspective on the attribution of mind to robots and AI systems (abstract)
12:05-13:15 Session 13B: Parallel Session: Logical Theories of Truth
12:05
A dilemma for conservative deflationist (abstract)
12:40
Can truth be defined? On a recent attempt by Rumfitt and an attempt at a correction (abstract)
14:45-16:30 Session 14A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
14:45
Practical Cognition in Deafferented Patients (abstract)
15:20
Intentionality in Social Cognition: Evidence for an Enactive Understanding (abstract)
15:55
Emergence and qualitative novelty. The case of chimericity (abstract)
14:45-16:30 Session 14B: Parallel Session: History of Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
14:45
Consequences and impossibilities: William of Sherwood’s and Peter of Spain’s logic (abstract)
15:20
The Indeterminacy of Analysis: the case of Frege’s Natural Numbers (abstract)
15:55
Theorems and tautologies: mathematics reduced to units of measurement (abstract)