PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, June 11th Thursday, June 12th Friday, June 13th
Wednesday, June 11th
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09:15-10:15 Session 2: Keynote: Gianluca Paolini
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09:15 | The isomorphism problem for torsion-free abelian group |
10:45-11:55 Session 3A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (I)
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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 3B: Parallel Session: Modal Logic
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10:45 | Modalism and Proof-Theoretic Modal Inferentialism (abstract) |
11:20 | Relational and algebraic semantics for modal weak Kleene logics (abstract) PRESENTER: Nicolò Zamperlin |
12:05-13:15 Session 4A: Parallel Session: General Pilosophy of Science
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12:05 | Pseudoscience as a Cognitive Closure Mechanism: Homogeneity, Negationism, and the Illusion of Understanding (abstract) |
12:40 | Progress Crucial Realism (abstract) PRESENTER: Niccolò Covoni |
12:05-13:15 Session 4B: Parallel Session: Conditionals
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12:05 | Infectious Cooper-Cantwell and De Finetti Conditionals (abstract) PRESENTER: Mariela Rubin |
12:40 | Unrestricted Connexive Conditionals, over Classical Logic (abstract) |
14:45-16:30 Session 5A: Parallel Session: Social Epistemology
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14:45 | Hacking and Latour, Latour and Hacking (abstract) |
15:20 | Brain Decoding and Operational Progress in Neuroscience (abstract) |
15:55 | The NHoA project: ethical challenges and opportunities of socially assistive robots for ageing in place (abstract) PRESENTER: Ilaria Alfieri |
14:45-16:30 Session 5B: Parallel Session: Logic and Metaphysics
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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) |
17:00-18:00 Session 6: Keynote: Patricia Palacios
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17:00 | From spins to birds to traders: New perspectives on knowledge transfer |
Thursday, June 12th
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09:15-10:15 Session 7: Keynote: Federico Laudisa
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09:15 | From locality to local realism (and back): on the vexed history of the Bell theorem |
10:45-11:55 Session 8A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (II)
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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) PRESENTER: Daria Mikhaylova |
10:45-11:55 Session 8B: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Mathematics
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10:45 | Unfolding Unfolding - A Constructivist Approach to Potentialism (abstract) PRESENTER: David Hofmann |
11:20 | On Cantor's domain Principle and the Semantics of Potentialism (abstract) |
12:05-13:15 Session 9A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Social Science
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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 9B: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Physics (I)
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12:05 | Not-so-Absolute Cosmic Simultaneity (abstract) |
12:40 | Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics (abstract) |
14:45-16:30 Session 10A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Medicine and Life Sciences
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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 10B: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Logic
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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 11: Keynote: Massimo Pigliucci
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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 12: Keynote: Costanza Larese
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09:15 | Hintikka’s conception of syntheticity as the introduction of new individuals |
10:45-11:55 Session 13A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Physics (II)
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10:45 | Conceptions of Emergence in Quantum Gravity: Challenges and Perspectives (abstract) |
11:20 | A hollow shining escutcheon: or what is “naturalized” in feminist epistemology? (abstract) |
10:45-11:55 Session 13B: Parallel Session: Representation and Aboutness
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10:45 | On the Role of Denotation in Contemporary Theories of Representation (abstract) |
12:05-13:15 Session 14A: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (III)
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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 14B: Parallel Session: Logical Theories of Truth
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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) PRESENTER: Pablo Rivas-Robledo |
14:45-16:30 Session 15: Parallel Session: History of Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
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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) |
15:20-16:30 Session 16: Parallel Session: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
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15:20 | Intentionality in Social Cognition: Evidence for an Enactive Understanding (abstract) |
15:55 | Emergence and qualitative novelty. The case of chimericity (abstract) |