6 – 7.30pm

Dinner available at New Hall

Until 11pm

Bar open at New Hall

7.30 – 9am

Breakfast available at New Hall

9.15 – 11.15

Confirmation Theory and Statistical Inference, Branden Fitelson and Deborah Mayo (Arts Lecture Hall)

11.15 – 11.40

Coffee/tea

11.40 - 12.10

El Clarke – Modular & clonal organisms: their impact on the theory of natural selection

Foad Dizadji-Bahmani – The status of bridge laws in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics

Victor Gijsbers: IBE: Arguments against the guiding thesis

Christian Beenfeldt – How to deal with conscious human subjects.

Brian King – A Kantian manifesto in the philosophy of mathematics

12.10 - 12.40

Matteo Mossio, Cristian Saborido, Alvaro Moreno-
Functions & Self-maintaining organization

Steven French & Angelo Cei – Laws, symmetries and objects: A neo-Kantian template for the structuralist debate

Ioannis Votsis – What’s wrong with the problem of unconceived alternatives?

Brendan Clarke – Causation and Medicine: Postulates and Pluralism?

Andrew Aberdein – Is mathematical reasoning just reasoning about mathematics?

12.40 - 1.10

Brian Garvey – The problem of defining “innateness”

George Darby – some questions about the empirical refutation of Humean supervenience

D. Tulodzicki – Epistemic equivalence and epistemic incapacitation

Sophia Efstathiou – Tracking causes of health outcomes: why race won’t do

Richard Pettigrew – On the possibility of natural number structures of different lengths

1.10 – 2.10

Buffet lunch

2.10 - 2.40

Marion Vorms – Scientific theorizing through genetic mapping

Dennis Lehmkuhl – Matter(s) in General Relativity

P.S. Bandyopadhyay – The Duhem-Quine thesis

Dylan Evans – Not so new: overblown claims for “new” approaches to emotion

Berry Groisman – The end of Sleeping Beauty’s nightmare

2.40 - 3.10

Viorel Paslaru – The new mechanistic philosophy and the mechanism of competition

Graham Nerlich- On care-free attitudes to Leibniz Equivalence

Samuel Schindler – What is an experimental error? Hertz’s cathode ray experiment reconsidered

Harry Lesser – Interpretations of the Schreber case

Jan-Willem Romeijn – A Condorcet Jury theorem for Unknown Juror Competence

3.10 - 3.40

Emma Tobin – Crosscutting natural kinds and the hierarchy thesis

Eleanor Knox – General relativity by another name? A look at teleparallel gravity

Nick Unwin - Underdetermination and Scepticism

Charlotte Blease – Scientific reasoning and PTSD

Conrad Heilmann – A defence of time discounting in economics

3.40 – 4pm

Coffee/tea

4 - 6pm

Statistical Mechanics, Craig Callender and Jos Uffink (Arts Lecture Hall)

6 - 7pm

Wine Reception sponsored by Oxford University Press (in Arts Faculty Building)

Until 8pm

Dinner available at New Hall

8.15pm

Optional guided tour of St Andrews leaves from New Hall

Until 11pm

Bar open at New Hall

7.30 – 9am

Breakfast available at New Hall

9.15 – 9.45am

Ian Kidd – Feyerabend’s Humanitarian Critique of Science

Jonathan Bain – Quantum Field Theories in Classical Spacetimes and Particles

Peter Vickers – Was Newtonian Cosmology Really Inconsistent?

Mark Sprevak – Functionalism and extended cognition

Phyllis McKay – Are mechanisms real?

9.45 – 10.15

Anjan Chakravartty – Metaphysics between the sciences and philosophies of science

Albert Sole Bellet –
A philosophical reassessment of the surreal trajectories argument

Juha Saatsi – Miraculous success? Kirchoff’s diffraction theory and scientific realism

Carl Gillett & Kenneth Aizawa- The (multiple) realization of psychological and other properties in the sciences

Arash Pessian – Reference and luck

10.15 – 10.45

Jacob Busch – why the indispensability argument for mathematical realism does not work

Peter Lewis – Probability, self-location and quantum branching

Ludwig Fahrbach & Claus Beisbart– Does the PMI support van Fraassen?

Armin Schulz – Evidential evolutionary psychology

Luke Glynn – Deterministic chance

10.45 – 11am

Coffee/tea

11 – 1pm

Social Epistemology and Science, Melinda Fagan and Miranda Fricker (Arts Lecture Hall)

1 – 2pm

Buffet lunch

After lunch

Departure