Programme

14 December

14 December
Day 1 / Venue Fórum Lisboa
8:30/9:00
Check In
9:00/9:30
ROOM A
Opening Session
Olga Pombo (Head of CFCUL) | Catarina Albergaria (CML) | Gil Santos (CFCUL & Lisbon ICPOS)
9:30/10:30
ROOM A
Chair: António Zilhão
Ilkka Niiniluoto / Keynote Address
Explanation by idealized theories
10:30/11:00
Coffee Break
11:00/12:30
ROOM A
Chair:
Telma João Santos
11:00-11:30
Ângelo Neto
From science to dance ENSAIO between lab and studio
11:30-12:00
Telma João Santos
Performance art: a rhizomatic almost continuously tending to liquid approach
12:00-12:30
Goran Pavlic
Reclaiming Objectivism in Art Research
ROOM B
Chair:
Gil C. Santos
11:00-11:30
Marko Tešić
Confirmation and the Generalized Nagel-Schaffner Model of Reduction: A Bayesian Analysis
11:30-12:00
Daniel Dohrn
Should Special Science Laws Be Written Into The Semantics of Counterfactuals?
12:00-12:30
Fatih S.M. Ozturk
Gettier thought experiments and the concept of knowledge
ROOM C
Chair:
João Luís Cordovil
11:00-11:30
Philipp Berghofer
Towards Spacetime Structuralism
11:30-12:00
Damian Luty
Shifting from metrical to total gravitational structure. Should only dynamics matter for spacetime structuralists?
ROOM D
Chair: Claudia Fernández-Fernández
11:00-11:30
Claudia Fernández-Fernández
Awareness logic: an epistemological defence
11:30-12:00
Luis Rosa
The epistemology of logic and logical pluralism
12:00-12:30
Carlos Sacadura
Rhetorics of Science: a Philosophical Approach to the Scientific Discourse
12:30/13:30
ROOM A
Chair:
João Luís Cordovil
12:30-13:00
Elena Castellani | Francesca Pero | Tarja Knuuttila
Models and representation: the role of structures
13:00-13:30
Javier Suárez | Roger Deulofeu
Mechanisms and natural laws: Why mechanisms need of natural laws in order to be explanatory
ROOM B
Chair:
Silvia Di Marco
12:30-13:00
Anna Maria Dieli
Cancer cells: from an evolutionary to a functional analysis
13:00-13:30
Renata Arruda
Manipulating Causes in Medicine
ROOM C
Chair:
Gil C. Santos
12:30-13:00
Julio Muñoz-Rubio
Biology and dialectics in the light of a revolution in evolutionary theory
13:00-13:30
Margarida Hermida
The animal roots of the self
ROOM D
Chair:
Isabel Serra
12:30-13:00
Isabel Serra | Maria Elisa Maia | Baudouin Jurdant
Unveiling scientific concepts: the notion of space
13:00-13:30
Lídia Queiroz
The influence of animism on atomistic conceptions
13:30/14:30
Lunch Break
14:30/16:00
ROOM A
Chair:
Reinhard Kahle
Symposium 2
Reinhard Kahle | Alan J. Cain | Augusto J. Franco de Oliveira
Simplicity of Proofs. The philosophical challenges of Hilbert’s 24th Problem
ROOM B
Chair:
José Croca
Symposium 3
José Croca | Gildo Santos | Paulo Castro
Science and Eurhythmy – Foundations
16:00/17:30
ROOM A
Chair:
Gil C. Santos
Symposium 4
Bohang Chen | Charles Wolfe | Cecilia Bognon-Küss
Vitalism and the scientific image in the 21st century
ROOM B
Chair:
Andrea Mazzola
16:00-16:30 | Symposium 3 (cont.)
Andrea Mazzola
Science and Eurhythmy – Foundations (cont.)
16:30-17:00
Eduardo Castro
Mathematical scientific explanation: a proposal
17:00-17:30
Navia Rivas de Castro
Does Mathematical Epistemic Explanatoriness Entail Platonism?
17:30/18:00
Coffee Break
18:00/19:00
ROOM A
Chair: Davide Vecchi
Arantza Etxeberria Agiriano / Keynote Address
Individuality, autonomy and the connectedness of life

 

 

 

14 December
Day 1 / Secondary Venue — FCUL / Anfiteatro da Fundação
Interdisciplinarity today: Scope and Application
11:00/11:15
Olga Pombo (CFCUL)
Introduction
11:15/13:15
Panel: Education
11:15-12:00
Helena Esser dos Reis | Cerise de Castro Campos | Rosani Moreira Leitão (UFG)
Case Study: Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar
12:00-12:45
Giselle Faur de Castro Catarino (UERJ&UNIGRANRIO) | Glória Regina Pessoa Campello Queiroz (UERJ)
Case Study: Relações existentes entre práticas interdisciplinares e a formação formal e não formal
12:45-13:15
Elisa Maia (CFCUL)
Case Study: Acção de formação de professores do ensino secundário – trabalho experimental e Interdisciplinaridade
13:15/14:30
Lunch Break
 14:30/15:45
1st Table: Case Studies (Urban studies, Water research and Emergence)
14:30-14:50
Olivia Bina (ICS-ULisboa)
The sustainability, interdisciplinarity and urban studies nexus
14:50-15:10
Marta Varanda (ISEG-ULisboa; SOCIUS/CSG)
Assessing interdisciplinarity in water research in Portugal. Where to find the Social Sciences and Humanities?
15:10-15:30
Gil C. Santos (CFCUL)
Emergence and Relational Ontology: Biology and Sociology
15:30-15:45
Discussion
15:45/16:00
Cofee Break
16:00/17:15
2nd Table: Case studies (Neurosciences, Cognitive sciences and Language Studies)
16:00-16:20
Joana Rigato (Champalimaud/CFCUL) | Rita Venturini (Champalimaud)
Case Study: Interdisciplinarity in neuroscience
16:20-16:40
Klaus Gärtner (CFCUL)
Case Study: The Cognitive Sciences
16:40-17:00
Nathalie Gontier (CFCUL)
Case Study: Inter- and Trans-Disciplinarity in Origin and Evolution of Language Studies
17:00-17:15
Discussion
17:15/17:30
Cofee Break
 17:30/18:45
3rd Table: Case Studies (Transcontinental Relations, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Sciences)
17:30-17:50
José Carlos Tiago de Oliviera (CFCUL) | Viviana Yaccuzzi Polisena (UNT) | Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan (INRA)
Transcontinental Interdisciplinarity
17:50-18:10
Jorge Jesuíno | Lígia Amâncio (ISCTE-IUL) | João Manuel de Oliveira (CIS-IUL)
Interdisciplinary discourses of social scientists
18:10-18:30
Helder Coelho (MAS BioISI and Mind-Brain College, UL)
Needs and Desires of Interdisciplinary Science
18:30-18:45
Discussion
18:45
Olga Pombo (CFCUL)
Closing Remarks

 

 

 

15 December

15 December
Day 2 / Venue Fórum Lisboa
9:00/10:00
ROOM A
Chair:
Klaus Gärtner
9:00-9:30
Michael Wilde
Extrapolation and the Russo-Williamson thesis
9:30-10:00
E. Gómez-Caminero | N. Guallart | A. Nepomuceno
Categorial Similarity
ROOM B
Chair:
Diogo Silva da Cunha
9:00-9:30
Pierluigi Barrotta | Eleonora Montuschi
The dam project. Who are the experts?
ROOM C
Chair:
Nuno Carvalho
9:00-9:30
Jens Dam Ziska
Pictorial Understanding
9:30-10:00
Ian O’Loughlin | Katie McCallum
Gestalt and anomaly: the aesthetics of theory selection and the logics of art
ROOM D
Chair:
João Luís Cordovil
9:00-9:30
Maria Elisa Maia | Isabel Serra
Epistemology of research on radiation and matter: a structural view
9:30-10:00
Ana Pato
Wave-corpuscle duality and the category of contradiction
10:00/10:30
Coffee Break
10:30/12:00
ROOM A
Chair:
Gil C. Santos
Symposium 5
Ken Aizawa | Cédric Brun | Thomas Polger | Lawrence Shapiro | Marie Kaiser
Multiple Realization, Reduction, and Explanatory Autonomy
ROOM B
Chair:
Elena Casetta
10:30-11:00
Javier Suárez
What is symbiosis? A philosopher’s answer
11:00-11:30
Anayansi Sierralta-Gutierrez
Epigenesis and Preformationism on Phenotype Conformation: Exploring Their Prevalence as Scientific Perspectives
11:30-12:00
Giorgio Airoldi
More than Fitness: a robustness-based proposal of classification of evolutionary changes
ROOM C
Chair:
Vinícius Jonas de Aguiar
10:30-11:00
Silvia Ivani
What We (Should) Talk About When We Talk About Fruitfulness
11:00-11:30
Finnur Dellsen
The Scientific Value of Epistemic Autonomy
11:30-12:00
Pedro Lucas Dulci
The non-reductionist methodology: a contribution of Herman Dooyeweerd to the philosophy of science
ROOM D
Chair:
Pietro Conte
10:30-11:00
Maria Estela Jardim
Science, Art and Photography: the study of Clouds from nineteenth to early twentieth century
11:00-11:30
Pedro Caldas
Walter Benjamin between science and art
11:30-12:00
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
12:00/13:30
ROOM A
Chair:
Gil C. Santos
Symposium 5 (cont.)
Ken Aizawa | Cédric Brun | Thomas Polger | Lawrence Shapiro | Marie Kaiser
Multiple Realization, Reduction, and Explanatory Autonomy (cont.)
ROOM B
Chair:
Marco Pina
12:00-12:30
Ivo Silvestro
DNA spillover, or how a genetic test can change the meaning of life
12:30-13:00
Marco Pina
Behavioral epigenetics: new insights into the nature/nurture debate
13:00-13:30
Daniel Kostic
Topological controllability of the brain: a case of non-causal interventionism
ROOM C
Chair:
Rui Silva
12:00-12:30
Kristin Kokkov
Evidential Reasoning in Archaeological Interpretation
12:30-13:00
Rui Silva
Laws and Mechanisms in the Human Sciences
13:00-13:30
Eva-Maria Jung
Experiment and Experience in the Humanities
ROOM D
Chair:
João Duarte
12:00-12:30
Vítor Neves
The international diffusion of economic ideas: a search for connecting principles
12:30-13:00
Marco Antonio Joven-Romero
On the nature of belief in pluralistic ignorance
13:00-13:30
João Duarte
Opposing models of engagement in scientific research: lessons of an ignorant schoolmaster
13:30/14:30
Lunch Break
14:30/15:30
ROOM A
Chair: Catarina Pombo Nabais
Horst Bredekamp / Keynote Address
The symbiosis of Picture and Nature. A Return of Manerism?
15:30/16:30
ROOM A
Chair:
Davide Vecchi
Symposium 6
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?
ROOM B
Chair:
Félix Costa
Symposium 7
Claudia Fernández-Fernández | Fernando R. Velázaquez | Fernando Soler | Francisco J. Salguero | Jose F Quesada | Angel Nepomuceno | Enrique Sarrión | Alfredo Burrieza
From normative to descriptive: epistemic attitudes and epistemic dynamics of non-ideal agents
16:30/17:30
ROOM A
Chair:
Davide Vecchi
Symposium 6 (cont.)
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.)
ROOM B
Chair:
Félix Costa
Symposium 7 (cont.)
Claudia Fernández-Fernández | Fernando R. Velázaquez | Fernando Soler | Francisco J. Salguero | Jose F Quesada | Angel Nepomuceno | Enrique Sarrión | Alfredo Burrieza
From normative to descriptive: epistemic attitudes and epistemic dynamics of non-ideal agents (cont.)
17:30/18:00
Coffee Break
18:00/20:00
ROOM A
Chair: Alexander Gerner
Film “Containment”
a film (USA, 81min) by Peter Galison and Robb Moss
19:25-20:00
Panel-Debate on the film „Containment“
with Peter Galison (via skype), Mara Almeida, Alexander Gerner
20:30
Conference Dinner at Casa do Alentejo

 

 

 

16 December

16 December
Day 3 / Venue Fórum Lisboa
9:00/10:30
ROOM A
Chair:
Gil C. Santos
9:00-9:30
Stefano Leardi | Nicla Vassallo
Knowledge in Context: The Factivity Principle and Its Epistemological Consequences
9:30-10:00
Ricardo Tavares da Silva
From Effect to Cause: Deductive Reasoning?
ROOM B
Chair:
Nuno Jerónimo
9:00-9:30
David Hommen
Ontological commitments of meta-theoretic methods of theory reconstruction: the case of frames
9:30-10:00
Klodian Coko
The Multiple Dimensions of Multiple Determination
10:00-10:30
Angel Nepomuceno | E. Gómez-Caminero | Nino Guallart
First Order Epistemic Logic for Epistemology: a Small Step
ROOM C
Chair:
Fernando Rua
9:00-9:30
Jorge Ornelas
Epistemic vs. Dialectic: on the Function of Thought Experiments
9:30-10:00
Martin Zach
Naturalized philosophy of science: Two accounts of the method of conceptual analysis
10:00-10:30
Georg Friedrich
Metaphor and Scientific Knowledge Generation
ROOM D
Chair:
Silvia Di Marco
9:00-9:30
Nathalie Gontier
Time and Causality in Natural History Research
9:30-10:00
Joana Rigato
Introspective reports as data: can we use subjective experience as evidence in science?
10:30/11:00
Coffee Break
11:00/12:30
ROOM A
Chair:
João Luís Cordovil
Symposium 8
Nahuel Sznajderhaus | Kian Salimkhani
Scientific realism and intertheory relations in physics: classical physics, quantum physics, and space time theories
ROOM B
Chair:
Klaus Gärtner
11:00-11:30
João Pinheiro
Interactivist Biosemantics: Ramsey’s Principle Naturalized
11:30-12:00
Umut Baysan
Varieties of Strong Emergence
ROOM C
Chair:
Diogo Silva da Cunha
11:00-11:30
Anthony Ferreira
How our concept of addiction could survive to behavioral addiction acknowledgement
11:30-12:00
François Pellet
Toward an Essence-based Theory of Disease
12:00-12:30
Ruy Jose Henriquez Garrido
The ontological concept of disease and the clinical empiricism of Thomas Sydenham
ROOM D
Chair:
Alexander Gerner
Symposium 9
Graça Corrêa | Alexander Gerner | Pietro Conte
On the Uncanny: Interdisciplinary Perspectives between Art, Science and Human Technology
12:30/13:30
ROOM A
Chair:
João Luís Cordovil
Invited Speaker
David Webb
Bachelard on the Idea of a Problematic
ROOM B
Chair:
Klaus Gärtner
12:30-13:00
Pedro Dinis
Bonjour and the Irrationality accusation directed to Qualified Externalism: a critical review
13:00-13:30
Henrique Jales Ribeiro
The philosophy of science and the Rhetorical Paradigm
ROOM C
Chair:
Nuno Carvalho
12:30-13:00
Pablo García-Barranquero
A conceptual model of human life extension
13:00-13:30
Eric Guichard
Philosophy of technique:
Intellectual proximities between François Dagognet and Jack Goody
ROOM D
Chair:
Angel Nepomuceno
12:30-13:00
Jose F Quesada | Angel Nepomuceno
Epistemological Issues on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
13:30/14:30
Lunch Break
14:30/15:30
ROOM A
Chair: Alexander Gerner
Mark Coeckelbergh / Keynote Address
Should we care about robots?
15:30/17:00
ROOM A
Chair:
João Luís Cordovil
Symposium 10
Gil Santos | João L Cordovil | John Symons
Emergence and non-fundamentalist metaphysics
ROOM B
Chair:
Francisco Carrapiço
15:30-16:00
Francisco Carrapiço
The evolution of complexity in living systems. New ideas for an old problem
16:00-16:30
Veli-Pekka Parkkinen
Genetic causation in developmental and population behavioural genetics
16:30-17:00
Leonardo Bich
Biological Regulation: an organisational account
17:00/17:30
Coffee Break
17:30/18:15
ROOM A
Book Presentation
Nathalie Gontier
Springer Series on Interdisciplinary Evolution Research & Special Issue on Evolutionary Patterns for the Journal Evolutionary Biology
José Croca
Eurhythmic Physics or Hyperphysics: the Unification of Physics
Gil Santos
Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science
ROOM B
Book Presentation
Zbigniew Kotowicz | David Webb | Silvia di Marco
Gaston Bachelard: A Philosophy of the Surreal (Edinburgh University Press)
18:15/19:15
ROOM A
Chair: António Zilhão
Elliott Sober / Keynote Address
Ockham’s Razor — When is the Simpler Theory Better?
19:15
Closing Session