5th Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Aarhus 2015
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015
09:00–09:10
Welcome (Aud F)
Session chair: Rachel A. Ankeny (University of Adelaide)
09:10–10:15
Plenary talk (Aud F)
The Turn to Practice in Science Studies: An Overall Characterization in Terms of Shifts With an Analysis of the Main Uses of the Term “Practice”
Léna Soler (Université de Lorraine/CNRS)
Session chair: Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University)
10:15–10:30
Coffee Break (Vandrehallen)
10:30–12:00
10:30–12:00
Parallel Session 1A (Aud F)
Session chair: Alfred Nordmann (Technische Universitat Darmstadt)
Organized by: Annamaria Carusi (University of Sheffield); Alfred Nordmann (Technische Universitat Darmstadt)
Symposium
: Similarities Reconsidered: How Achievements of Similarity License Inferential and Constructive Moves in Research Practice
Part 1: Inferential Moves
Similarity of Functional Behavior – Inferential Strategies in the Engineering Sciences
Mieke Boon
From Mice to Men: Homogeneity, Similarity and Relevance in Model-Based Reasoning
Lara Huber
Systems of Equivalences: Successes and Failures in Instituting Similarity in Computational Modelling of Hearts and Brains
Annamaria Carusi
Part 2 follows Friday at 14:00 (Parallel Session 7A)
10:30–12:00
Parallel Session 1B (G1)
Session chairs: Jessica Carter (University of Southern Denmark); Christopher Pincock (Ohio State University)
Organized by: José Ferreirós (University of Sevilla); Jessica Carter (University of Southern Denmark); Henrik Kragh Sørensen (Aarhus University)
Symposium
: Philosophy of Mathematical Practice
Fourier Series as an Interface Between Mathematics and Physics
Christopher Pincock
Strategies of Tuning. A New Look on Mathematization
Johannes Lenhard
Representations and Understanding in Mathematics
Jessica Carter
10:30–12:00
Parallel Session 1C (G2)
Session chair: Sjoerd D. Zwart (Delft, Eindhoven Universities of Technology)
Cognitive Constraints, Complexity And Model-building
Miles MacLeod; Nancy Nersessian
The Role of Interactions in Determining Biological Systems Structure and Function
Mihaela Pavlicev; Robert Richardson
Systems Medicine: Visions and Controversies
Sara Green
10:30–12:00
Parallel Session 1D (G3)
Session chair: Timothy Tambassi (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
On the Emergence of a Prediction Culture in Climate Modeling
Matthias Heymann
Uncertainty, Non-epistemic Values and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Erin Nash
Science, Philosophy, and Applied Ontology: A Common Project for a Unitary Description of Reality
Timothy Tambassi
10:30–12:00
Parallel Session 1E (G4)
Session chair: Leen De Vreese (Ghent University)
Cancer: From One to Multiple Diseases
Gry Oftedal; Anders Strand
Psychiatric Classification Between Science and Practice
Anke Bueter
Inductive Risk, Epistemic Risk, and Overdiagnosis of Disease
Justin Biddle
10:30–12:00
Parallel Session 1F (Koll G)
Session chair: Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge)
Death of the Scientific Author, Contributors Too
Barton Moffatt
Privacy, Informed Consent, and Participant Observation
Julie Zahle
Facing Animals
Sophia Efstathiou
12:00–13:30
Lunch (Vandrehallen)
13:30–15:00
13:30–15:00
Parallel Session 2A (Aud F)
Session chair: Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Organized by: Michiru Nagatsu (University of Helsinki)
Symposium
: Critical Perspectives on the Practice of Evidence-Based Behavioral Public Policy
Behaviorally Informed Policy and Decision Theory
Jaakko Kuorikoski; Samuli Pöyhönen
Boosts Versus Nudges: How to Pick the Right Policy Tool
Markus Feufel; Till Grüne-Yanoff; Caterina Marchionni
What's Wrong With Evidence-Based Approach?: “New Development Economics” and Behavioral Development Economics
Judith Favereau; Michiru Nagatsu
13:30–15:00
Parallel Session 2B (G1)
Session chair: Mieke Boon (University of Twente)
Toward a Tool for Supporting Interdisciplinary Research Teams in Developing Shared Ontologies
Julie Mennes
Boundary Work: Nanoscience Meets Philosophy
Julia Bursten
Inter-experimentality in the Discovery of the Acceleration of the Universe
Genco Guralp
13:30–15:00
Parallel Session 2C (G2)
Session chair: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
Replication and Data-Sharing in the Social Sciences: Progress and Challenges
Stephanie Wykstra
Explaining Rare Events in Political Science: A Mixed Methods Approach
Sharon Crasnow; Stephan Haggard
Economics Imperialism in Social Epistemology: A Critical Assessment
Manuela Fernández Pinto
13:30–15:00
Parallel Session 2D (G3)
Session chair: Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University)
Toward Semiotic Modelling of Experimental Practices
Robert Meunier
Individuation, Individuality, and Experimental Practice in Developmental Biology
Alan Love
Context Dependencies and Multi-level Explanations in Biological Sciences
Marta Bertolaso
13:30–15:00
Parallel Session 2E (G4)
Session chair: Holly VandeWall (Boston College)
Precaution in Scientific Model Building: The Case of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern Approach in Food Toxicology
Karim Bschir
The Risk of Using Inductive Risk to Challenge the Value-Free Ideal
Inmacuala de Melo-Martin; Kristen Intemann
Estimation of Systematic Uncertainty as Robustness Analysis
Kent Staley
13:30–15:00
15:00–15:30
Coffee Break (Vandrehallen)
15:30–17:30
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 3A (Aud F)
Session chair: Alan Love (University of Minnesota)
Organized by: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
Symposium
: Data Practices in Biology and Biomedicine
Part 1: Data Flows and Epistemic Implications of Databasing
The Evidential Scope of Databases in Cancer Genetics
Emanuele Ratti
Data Integration Between Databases
James A. Overton
Mapping Biological Knowledge. From Particular Data to General Phenomena
Federico Boem
The Flow Metaphor and Data Ecosystems
Gregor Halfmann
Part 2 follows Thursday at 09:00 (Parallel Session 4A)
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 3B (G1)
Session chair: Annamaria Carusi (University of Sheffield)
Organized by: Sophie Van Baalen (University of Twente)
Symposium
: Philosophy of Science in Clinical Practice
From the ‘Revolution’ to the ‘Renaissance’: Science, Philosophy, Rhetoric and the EBM Debate
Michael Loughlin
Causation in Scientific Methods and the Medically Unexplained
Rani Lill Anjum
A Critical Medical Humanities Approach to the Clinical Practice and Science of Breathlessness
Jane Macnaughton
Evidence Based Medicine Versus Expertise: Understanding Epistemic Actions in Clinical Practice
Sophie van Baalen
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 3C (G2)
Session chair: Andrea Woody (University of Washington)
Diagrams as Both Representation and Practice in Developing Mechanistic Cell Models
Yin Chung Au
Computer Data Processing and Its Impact on the Interpretation of Digital Images
Vincent Israel-Jost
Diagrams of Sound and Vision
Sabine Brauckmann; Sara Franceschelli
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 3D (G3)
Session chair: Mieke Boon (University of Twente)
Expanding the Experimental Realm: An Account of Descriptive and Functional Experimentation in the Natural Sciences
Stephan Guttinger
Is Rigorous Measurement of Statistical Evidence Possible?
Veronica Vieland
Measurement and Metrology Post-Maxwell: A Historical, Philosophical, and Mathematical Primer
Daniel Mitchell
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 3E (G4)
Session chair: Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University)
Collaboration And Explanatory Models
Melinda Fagan
Model Coupling in Resource economics: Conditions for Effective Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Michiru Nagatsu; Miles MacLeod
Authorship, Collaboration, and Joint Commitment
Haixin Dang
Philosophy of Citizen Science in Practice
Kristian H. Nielsen
15:30–17:30
17:30–19:00
Welcome to participants (Steno Museum for the History of Science and Medicine)
19:00–21:00
Reception (Department of Mathematics)
Thursday, 25 June 2015
09:00–11:00
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 4A (Aud F)
Session chair: Alan Love (University of Minnesota)
Organized by: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
Symposium
: Data Practices in Biology and Biomedicine
Part 2: Towards a Pluralist Understanding of Data Uses
Data, Models and Data Models
Sabina Leonelli
Contrasting Approaches in Mitochondrial Evolution: Data-Emphasis, Data-Ignorance and Its Consequences
Thomas Bonnin
Data, Infrastructures and Materials: Repertoires in Model Organism Biology
Rachel A. Ankeny; Sabina Leonelli
Commentary
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 4B (G1)
Session chair: Stephanie Wykstra (Innovations for Poverty Action)
From Cells to Society (and Back): Epistemic Challenges and Political Implications of a Novel Approach in Public Health
Alexandra Soulier; Caroline Guibet-Lafaye
A Change in Practice?: A Reevaluation of Mechanistic Reasoning and Clinical Experience in Post-grade Evidence-Based Medicine
Sarah Wieten
Pluralism Into the Pasteur's Quadrant: From the Study of Human Behavior to Cancerology
Baptiste Bedessem; Stéphanie Ruphy
Meta-analysis and the Ideals of Objectivity
Saana Jukola
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 4C (G2)
Session chair: Julia Bursten (University of Pittsburgh)
Making Sense of Theoretical Practices: Scripts, Scruples and the Mass of the Universe
Jaco de Swart
Situating Styles of Reasoning
Adam Toon
Performing Medical: Transforming Institutional Identity at the Jackson Laboratory
Ekin Yasin
Practice Theory and Pragmatism in Science & Technology Studies: Convergence or Collision?
Anders Buch
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 4D (G3)
Session chair: Lena Kästner (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Laws and Mechanisms: The Convergence of Two Explanatory Accounts in Neuroscientific Practice
Philipp Haueis
Reverse Inference, the Cognitive Ontology and the Evidential Scope of Neuroimaging Data
Jessey Wright
The Explanatory Payoffs of Multiple Realization in Cognitive Neuroscience
Maria Serban
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 4E (G4)
Session chair: Anna de Bruyckere (Durham University)
Bridging the Gap Between Well-Being research and Policy
Alicia Hall
Science-Based Policy-making in an Interdisciplinary Perspective
David Budtz Pedersen
Knowledge Creation in the Congressional Research Service
Holly VandeWall
Industrial Intellectual Property Law as Technology
Ave Mets
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 4F (Koll G)
Session chair: Andrea Woody (University of Washington)
An Empirical Based Classification of Engineering Projects
Sjoerd D. Zwart; Marc J. de Vries
Incorporating Growth of Knowledge Frameworks in the Science Curriculum
Sibel Erduran; Zoubeida Dagher
Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education
Zoubeida Dagher; Sibel Erduran
The Place of Contextual Knowledge in the Design of a Software Platform for Teaching and Learning: Making the Case for an Empirical Strategy in Software Design With Distributed Cognition
Klara Benda
11:00–11:20
Coffee Break (Vandrehallen)
11:20–12:30
Plenary talk (Aud F)
Investigating Discovery Practices: Studies of Bioengineering Sciences Labs
Nancy J. Nersessian (Harvard University)
Session chair: Andrea Woody (University of Washington)
12:30–14:00
Lunch (Vandrehallen)
Newsletter Meeting (all welcome!)
Session chair: Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina)
14:00–15:10
Plenary talk (Aud F)
Philosophy of Clutter
Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Session chair: Mieke Boon (University of Twente)
15:10–15:30
Coffee Break (Vandrehallen)
15:30–17:30
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 5A (Aud F)
Session chair: Andrea Woody (University of Washington)
Understanding Scientific Practices as Discursive Niche Construction
Joseph Rouse
Representation and Correspondence as Dead Metaphors
Hasok Chang
Scientific Practices and the Problem of Concept Formation
Laura Georgescu
The Consequences of Putting the Philosophy of Science Into Practice
Robert Frodeman
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 5B (G1)
Session chair: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
Organized by: Hans Radder (VU University Amsterdam)
Symposium
: Practising Philosophy of Science in the Public Interest
The How and Why of Philosophy of Science’s Societal Impact
Hans Radder
Should Scientific Ontologies Reflect Public Interests?
David Ludwig
The Social Relevance of the Philosophy of Climate Science
Anna Leuschner
A Satanic Mill for Science?
Daniel Hicks
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 5C (G2)
Session chair: Sara Green (University of Copenhagen)
Organized by: Morgan Thompson (University of Pittsburgh)
Symposium
: Mechanistic Explanation Meets Scientific Practice
Mechanist and Non-mechanist Modes of Discovery: A case for phenomenal intervention in neuroscience
David Colaco
Explanatory Relations
Daniel C. Burnston
Norms for Mechanistic Explanation Available in Practice
William Bechtel
Limiting the Scope of Mechanistic Explanation
Morgan Thompson
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 5D (G3)
Session chair: Dingmar van Eck (Ghent University)
On the Epistemic Roles of Simulations in Cognitive Modeling
Maria Serban
About “Numerical Experiments”
Julie Jebeile
An Information-Theoretic Model of Scientific Reasoning
Agnes Bolinska
15:30–17:30
Parallel Session 5E (G4)
Session chair: Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina)
Knowledge and Its Limitations in Otolaryngology
Anaïs Rameau
Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Case for Epistemic Pluralism
Erman Sozudogru
Kinds and Degrees of Scientific Understanding in Medicine
Leen De Vreese
Biological Organization, Diseases and Normativity in Medicine
M. Arantzazu Etxeberria
15:30–17:30
17:30–18:30
Business Meeting (All Welcome!) (Aud F)
Friday, 26 June 2015
09:00–11:00
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 6A (Aud F)
Session chair: Adam Toon (University of Exeter)
Organized by: Chiara Ambrosio (UCL)
Symposium
: Aesthetics in Scientific Practice
Why Do Scientists Find Beautiful Theories Aesthetically Attractive?
James W. McAllister
Who is Afraid of Mimesis?
Chiara Ambrosio
Resemblance and Its Discontents in Art and Science
Mauricio Suárez
‘Creative Similarity’ in the Understanding of Science and Art
Julia Sánchez Dorado
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 6B (G1)
Session chair: Inmacuala de Melo-Martin (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Organized by: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Symposium
: Interdisciplinarity, Sustainability Science, and Philosophy of Science Beyond the Disciplines: Commentary on Robert Frodeman’s Sustainable Knowledge: A Theory of Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity, Sustainability Science and the Philosophy of Science: Robert Frodeman’s Sustainable Knowledge
Paul B. Thompson; Danielle Lake
Interdisciplinarity, Rigor, and Deaccelerating the Growth of Knowledge
Evelyn Brister
Why Has Applied Philosophy Run Out of Steam
David Budtz Pedersen
Sustainable Knowledge: Philosophy of Science in the Field
Robert Frodeman
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 6C (G2)
Session chair: Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University)
Mechanistic Explanations of Physical Laws: How Do They Provide Understanding?
Erik Weber; Joachim Frans
Mechanisms vs. Difference-Making
Lena Kästner; Lise Marie Andersen
Reaction Mechanisms in Chemistry: A Comparison Case for Accounts of Scientific Explanation
Andrea Woody
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 6D (G3)
Session chair: Holly VandeWall (Boston College)
Scientists as Experts: Understanding Trustworthiness Across Communities
Heidi Grasswick
Expert Witnesses in a Trial Against Experts: Of Causal Links and Scientific Responsibility in the L'Aquila Case
Federico Brandmayr
Why Scientists Cannot and Should Not Be Sincere
Stephen John
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 6E (G4)
Session chair: Maria Serban (University of Pittsburgh)
Design Explanation and Idealization
Dingmar van Eck
Unified and Disunified Strategies for Explaining Parameter Robustness
Nicholaos Jones
Not Null Enough: Causal Null Hypotheses in Community Ecology and Comparative Psychology
William Bausman; Marta Halina
Essentialism, Evolutionary Theory and Human Rights
Edit Talpsepp
09:00–11:00
Parallel Session 6F (Koll G)
Session chair: Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge)
The Epistemological Role of Systematic Discrepancies
Teru Miyake
(Re-) Discovering Elementary Particles at Cern by Diagnostic Causal Inferences
Adrian Wüthrich
What Would Be a Cultural Logic of Conceptual Discovery?
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
Theoretical Bias of the Standard Research Practice in Social Psychology
Taku Iwatsuki
11:00–11:20
Coffee Break (Vandrehallen)
11:20–12:30
Plenary talk (Aud F)
On Materiality and Scientific Objects
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Session chair: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
12:30–14:00
Lunch (Vandrehallen)
14:00–15:30
14:00–15:30
Parallel Session 7A (Aud F)
Session chair: Mieke Boon (University of Twente)
Organized by: Annamaria Carusi (University of Sheffield); Alfred Nordmann (Technische Universitat Darmstadt)
Symposium
: Similarities Reconsidered: How Achievements of Similarity License Inferential and Constructive Moves in Research Practice
Part 2: Constructive Moves
Varieties of Similarity
Alfred Nordmann
Image-Based Inferences in Engineering-Sciences: Which Role Does the Concept of Similarity Play?
Sabine Ammon
The Epistemic Functions of Computational Simulation Images: A Case Study in Nanoscience
Catherine Allamel-Raffin
14:00–15:30
Parallel Session 7B (G1)
Session chair: Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Organized by: Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina)
Symposium
: Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches to Quality of Life Measurement
A Lay of the Land: Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches to Quality of Life Measurement
John Browne
Epistemic and Ethical Problems with Nomothetic and Idiographic Quality of Life Measures
Leah McClimans
Applying Tal’s Model-Based Account of Measurement to Nomothetic Quality of Life Measures
Laura Cupples
14:00–15:30
Parallel Session 7C (G2)
Session chair: Justin Biddle (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Connecting Feminist Standpoint Empiricism to Cognitive Neuroscience
Vanessa Bentley
The Epistemic Significance of Scientific/Intellectual Movements
Kristina Rolin
14:00–15:30
Parallel Session 7D (G3)
Session chair: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
Upper Level Ontologies, Metaphysical Commitments, and the Production of Questions
Brandon Boesch
What Are Biological Mechanisms? A View From Scientific Practice
Daniel Nicholson
14:00–15:30
Parallel Session 7E (G4)
Session chair: Maria Serban (University of Pittsburgh)
Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics
Morten Misfeldt; Mikkel Willum Johansen
Generating Certainty in Mathematical Practice: A Case Study in an Ethnography of Current Research Mathematics
Stav Kaufman
Mathematization in Practice
Davide Rizza
14:00–15:30
15:30–16:15
Closing Discussion (Aud F)
Session chair: Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge)