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Frontier in the Philosophy of Specific Sciences
19 - 20 August 2017
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua, China

 

PROGRAM

DAY ONE, August 19

9:00

Opening Ceremony

9:20

Sandy Mitchell: Perspectivism, Pluralism and Pragmatism: Lessons from Protein Science

10:20

Tea break

10:30

Xiang Huang: Modeling Scientific Rationality with Heuristic Structures

11:30

Shan Gao: A Particle Ontological Interpretation of the Wave Function

12:30

Morning Session ends

 

 

14:00

James Lennox: Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits?

15:00

Jianhui Li: Isn’t Evolution Progress?

16:00

Tea break

16:15

Brad Weslake: Fitness and Variance

17:15

Shijiang Yang: How to characterize the individuality of holobionts?

18:15

Afternoon Session ends

 

DAY TWO, August 20

9:00

Edouard Machery: Is there any hope for classical statistics?

10:00

Tea break

10:15

Feng Yu: Two Visual Systems and Egocentric Character of Visual Consciousness

11:15

Shaohua Xue: The Differences of Space Experience: Mary’s Room Argument in Virtual Reality

12:30

Morning Session ends

 

 

14:00

Malcolm Forster: Predictive Brains and the Principle of Common Cause

15:00

Stefan Petkov: Unification, contradiction, integration in the case of predator-prey modelling

16:00

Tea break

16:15

Wei Wang: Case Study Method Revisited: Overgeneralization or a Straw in the Wind

17:15

Zhu Xu: Self-knowledge and Objectivity in Participant Observation

18:15

Closing Ceremony

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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