Day 1  
8:30-9:00 Check In
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Session
9:30-10:30 Ilkka Niiniluoto – Keynote Address
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions
  room A
Ângelo Neto
From science to dance ENSAIO between lab and studio

Telma João Santos
Performance art: a rhizomatic almost continuously tending to liquid approach

Goran Pavlic
Reclaiming Objectivism in Art Research

room B

Claudia Fernández-Fernandéz
Awareness logic: an epistemological defence

Luis Rosa
The epistemology of logic and logical pluralism

Carlos Sacadura
Rhetorics of Science: a Philosophical Approach to the Scientific Discourse

room C

Philipp Berghofer
Towards Spacetime Structuralism

Damian Luty
Shifting from metrical to total gravitational structure. Should only dynamics matter for spacetime structuralists?

Fabio Ceravolo
Physically Unrestricted Composition

room D

Marko Tešić
Confirmation and the Generalized Nagel-Schaffner Model of Reduction: A Bayesian Analysis

Daniel Dohrn
Should Special Science Laws Be Written Into The Semantics of Counterfactuals?

Fatih S.M. Ozturk
Gettier thought experiments and the concept of knowledge

12:30-13:30 Parallel Sessions
  room A

Symposium:
Elena Castellani | Francesca Pero
Models and representation: the role of structures

room B

Anna Maria Dieli
Cancer cells: from an evolutionary to a functional analysis

Renata Arruda
Manipulating Causes in Medicine

room C

Julio Muñoz-Rubio
Biology and dialectics in the light of a revolution in evolutionary theory.

Margarida Hermida
The animal roots of the self

room D

Eduardo Castro
Mathematical scientific explanation: a proposal

Navia Rivas de Castro
Does Mathematical Epistemic Explanatoriness Entail Platonism?

13:30-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00 Parallel Sessions
  room A

Symposium:
Alan J. Cain | Reinhard Kahle | Augusto J. Franco de Oliveira
Simplicity of Proofs. The philosophical challenges of Hilbert’s 24th Problem

room B

Symposium:
José Croca | Gildo Santos | Paulo Castro
Science and Eurhythmy – Foundations

16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions
  room A

Symposium:
Bohang Chen | Charles Wolfe | Cecilia Bognon-Küss
Vitalism and the scientific image in the 21st century.

room B
Symposium:
Andrea Mazzola
Science and Eurhythmy – Foundations (cont.)
Maria Elisa Maia | Isabel Serra
Unveiling scientific concepts: the notion of space

Lídia Queiroz
The influence of animism on atomistic conceptions

17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00-19:00 Arantza Etxeberria Agiriano – Keynote Address
Individuality, autonomy and the connectedness of life

 

Day 1 Secondary Venue — FCUL
10.30-19:00 Interdisciplinarity today: Scope and Application (Programme TBA)

 

 

Day 2  
9:00-10:00 Parallel Sessions
room A
Nathalie Gontier
Time and Causality in Natural History Research

Francisco Carrapiço
The  evolution of complexity in living systems. New ideas for an old problem.

room B

Michael Wilde
Extrapolation and the Russo-Williamson thesis

Javier Suárez
Mechanisms and natural laws: Why mechanisms need of natural laws in order to be explanatory

room C

Jens Dam Ziska
Pictorial Understanding

Ian O’Loughlin | Katie McCallum
Gestalt and anomaly: the aesthetics of theory selection and the logics of art.

room D

Symposium:

Pierluigi Barrotta | Eleonora Montuschi
The dam project. Who are the experts?
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions
room A

Symposium:
Ken Aizawa | Cédric Brun | Thomas Polger | Lawrence Shapiro | Marie Kaiser
Multiple Realization, Reduction, and Explanatory Autonomy

room B

Javier Suárez
What is symbiosis? A philosopher’s answer

Anayansi Sierralta-Gutierrez
Epigenesis and Preformationism on Phenotype Conformation: Exploring Their Prevalence as Scientific Perspectives

Giorgio Airoldi
More than Fitness: a robustness-based proposal of classification of evolutionary changes.

room C
Silvia Ivani
What We (Should) Talk About When We Talk About Fruitfulness

António Zilhão
Philosophy and Scientific Method

Pedro Lucas Dulci
The non-reductionist methodology: a contribution of Herman Dooyeweerd to the philosophy of science

room D

Kristin Kokkov
Evidential Reasoning in Archaeological Interpretation

Rui Silva
Laws and Mechanisms in the Human Sciences

Eva-Maria Jung
Experiment and Experience in the Humanities

12:00-13:30 Parallel Sessions
room A

Symposium:
Ken Aizawa | Cédric Brun | Thomas Polger | Lawrence Shapiro | Marie Kaiser
Multiple Realization, Reduction, and Explanatory Autonomy (cont.)

Umut Baysan
Varieties of Strong Emergence

room B

Ivo Silvestro
DNA spillover, or how a genetic test can change the meaning of life

Marco Pina
Behavioral epigenetics: new insights into the nature/nurture debate

Daniel Kostic
Topological controllability of the brain: a case of non-causal interventionism

room C
Maria Estela Jardim
Science, Art and Photography: the study of Clouds from nineteenth to early twentieth century

Pedro Caldas
Walter Benjamin between science and art

Pedro Gomes
A philosophical approach of the mathematical representation of the visible reality in the technologies of 3D imaging and virtual reality: René Descartes and David Hume

room D

Marco Antonio Joven-Romero
On the nature of belief in pluralistic ignorance

Finnur Dellsen
The Epistemic Value of Scientific Disagreement

João Duarte
Opposing models of engagement in scientific research: lessons of an ignorant schoolmaster
13:30-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-15:30 Horst Bredekamp – Keynote Address
15:30-16:30 Parallel Session
  room A

Symposium:
Claudia Fernández-Fernandéz | Fernando R. Velázaquez | Fernando Soler | Francisco J. Salguero | Jose F Quesada | Angel Nepomuceno
From normative to descriptive: epistemic attitudes and epistemic dynamics of non-ideal agents.

room B

Symposium:
Silvia Di Marco | Jorge Marques da Silva | Elena Casetta | Susana A. M. Varela | Davide Vecchi
Is an Extended Synthesis required to properly account for biological diversity?

16:30-17:30 Parallel Session
  room A

Symposium:
Claudia Fernández-Fernandéz | Fernando R. Velázaquez | Fernando Soler | Francisco J. Salguero | Jose F Quesada | Angel Nepomuceno
From normative to descriptive: epistemic attitudes and epistemic dynamics of non-ideal agents (cont.)

room B

Symposium:
Silvia Di Marco | Jorge Marques da Silva | Elena Casetta | Susana A. M. Varela | Davide Vecchi
Is an Extended Synthesis required to properly account for biological diversity? (cont.)

17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00-20:00 Room A
  Movie "Containment"
Round Table with Peter Galison via skype (More details soon)
18:00-19h00 Room B
  Book Presentations
20:30 Conference Dinner

 

 

Day 3  
9:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions
room A
Stefano Leardi
Knowledge in Context: The Factivity Principle and Its Epistemological Consequences

Katherine Jane Cecil
The Only (X) In The Lab: Improvisation and Epistemic Non-compliance

Ricardo Tavares da Silva
From Effect to Cause: Deductive Reasoning?

room B

David Hommen
Ontological commitments of meta-theoretic methods of theory reconstruction: the case of frames

Klodian Coko
The Multiple Dimensions of Multiple Determination

Angel Nepomuceno
First Order Epistemic Logic for Epistemology: a Small Step.

room C

Jorge Ornelas
Epistemic vs. Dialectic: on the Function of Thought Experiments

Martin Zach
Naturalized philosophy of science: Two accounts of the method of conceptual analysis

Georg Friedrich
Metaphor and Scientific Knowledge Generation

room D

Vítor Neves
The international diffusion of economic ideas: a search for connecting principles

Pedro Dinis
Bonjour and the Irrationality accusation directed to Qualified Externalism: a critical review

Henrique Jales Ribeiro
The philosophy of science and the rhetorical paradigm
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions
room A

Anthony Ferreira
How our concept of addiction could survive to behavioral addiction acknowledgement

François Pellet
Toward an Essence-based Theory of Disease

Ruy Jose Henriquez Garrido
The ontological concept of disease and the clinical empiricism of Thomas Sydenham

room B

João Fonseca
Evaluating the impact of 4E Cognition on philosophy of science.

João Pinheiro
Interactivism on the internal relation between true contents and their evolutionary success conditions

 

room C

Symposium:
Graça Corrêa | Alex Gerner | Pietro Conte
On the Uncanny: Interdisciplinary Perspectives between Art, Science and Human Technology

room D

Pablo García-Barranquero
A conceptual model of human life extension

Eric Guichard
Philosophie de la technique: proximités intellectuelles entre François Dagognet et Jack Goody.​

 

12:30-13:30 Parallel Sessions
room A

To Be Announced

 

room B

Symposium:
Nahuel Sznajderhaus | Kian Salimkhani
Scientific realism and intertheory relations in physics: classical physics, quantum physics, and space time theories

room C
Maria Elisa Maia | Isabel Serra
Epistemology of research on radiation and matter: a structural view

Ana Pato
Wave-corpuscle duality and the category of contradiction

room D
Symposium:
Jose F Quesada | Angel Nepomuceno
Epistemological Issues on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
13:30-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-15:30 Mark Coeckelbergh – Keynote Address
15:30-17:00 Parallel Session
  room A

Symposium:
Gil Santos | João L Cordovil | John Symons
Emergence and non-fundamentalist metaphysics

room B
Joana Rigato
Introspective reports as data: can we use subjective experience as evidence in science?

Veli-Pekka Parkkinen
Genetic causation in developmental and population behavioural genetics

Leonardo Bich
Biological Regulation: an organisational account

17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-18:30 Elliott Sober – Keynote Address
18:30-20:00 Closing Session