SURe Program 2022
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4th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop April 21-23, 2022
Fordham University, New York, NY
Conveners of the SURe workshop series:
Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury)
Daniel Kostić (Radboud University)
Co-chairs of program committee:
Stephen Grimm
Peter Tan
Fordham University, New York, NY
Conveners of the SURe workshop series:
Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury)
Daniel Kostić (Radboud University)
Co-chairs of program committee:
Stephen Grimm
Peter Tan
Thursday, 21 April
1:00-2:30pm
(19:00-20:30 CEST) |
Book symposium: Michela Massimi (Edinburgh), Perspectival Realism
Symposiasts: Catherine Elgin (Harvard), Mauricio Suárez (Madrid) |
3:00-3:50pm
(21:00-21:50 CEST) |
In person:
Claire Murphy (Notre Dame) – “Between Idol Worship and Iconoclasm: The Role of Mediation in Scientific Understanding” |
Zoom:
Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie) – “Defining Scientific Understanding as ‘Getting the Picture’” |
4:00-4:50pm
(22:00-22:50 CEST) |
In person:
Myron A Penner (Trinity Western / UBC) and Amanda Nichols (Oklahoma Christian University) – “Technologies, Representation, and Understanding” |
Zoom:
Felipe Morales Carbonell (KU Leuven / independent) – “The Content of Understanding as Compressed Graphs” |
Friday, 22 April
9:30-10:50am (15:30-16:50 CEST)
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Keynote address: Michael Strevens (NYU)
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11-11:50am
(17:00-17:50 CEST) |
In person:
Oscar Westerblad (Cambridge) – “The Epistemic Value of Practical Understanding” |
Zoom:
Alberto Termine (Milan) and Alessandro Facchini (Dalle Molle Institute for AI Research) – “Can Explainable AI safeguard scientific understanding? Towards an XAI-related hybrid approach to scientific research” |
12-12:50pm
(18:00-18:50 CEST |
In person:
Michael Tamir (UC Berkeley) and Elay Shech (Auburn) – “Understanding from Deep Learning Models in Context” |
Zoom:
Noelia Iranzo Ribera (Birmingham) – “How idealising counterfactuals explain: an interventionist tale” |
1-2:30pm
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Lunch break
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2:30-3:20pm
(20:30-21:20 CEST) |
In person:
Dana Matthiessen (Pitt) – “Technical Understanding and Representational Content: How Experimentation Informs the Interpretation of Models” |
Zoom:
Javier Anta (Barcelona) – “Mathematical understanding in statistical mechanics” |
3:30-4:20pm (2130-2220 CEST)
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In person:
Nina de Boer (Radboud University) – “Making sense of the intelligibility of network models of psychopathology” |
Zoom:
Conor Mayo-Wilson (Washington) – “Rational Choice and the Value of Understanding” |
4:30-5:20pm (2230-2320 CEST)
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In person:
Aja Watkins (Boston University) – “Scale Models in Climate Science: Using Temporal Scaling to Identify a Paleoclimate Analogue” |
Zoom:
Insa Lawler (UNC-Greensboro) – “Explananda of model-based explanations” CANCELLED |
Conference dinner at 7pm – location TBD
Saturday, 23 April
10am-12pm
(16:00-18:00 CEST) |
Topical session: Transdisciplinary Modeling and Model Transfer
Speakers: Tarja Knuuttila (Vienna) and Andrea Loettgers (Vienna) - "Transdisciplinary Model Templates: Application and Entanglement" Peter Tan (Fordham) - "Model Templates and Practical Understanding" Jennifer Jhun (Duke) - "Analogical Reasoning in Econophysics" |
12:10-1pm
(18:10-19:00 CEST) |
In person:
Phillip Kieval (Cambridge) – “Unsupervised Discoveries, Understanding, and Semantic Opacity” |
Zoom:
Philippe Verreault-Julien (Eindhoven) – “How-possibly explanations and the accurate representation of dispositions |
1-2:30pm
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Lunch break
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2:30-3:20pm
(20:30-21:20 CEST) |
In person:
Predrag Šustar (University of Rijeka) and Martina Blečić (University of Rijeka) - “Explanation and understanding in biology: the case of scientific metaphors” |
Zoom:
Leonardo Flamini (Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium) – “What is the point of models, diagrams, and idealisations for scientific understanding? A zetetic approach” |
3:30-4:20pm
(21:30-22:20 CEST) |
In person:
Andres Paez (Universidad de los Andes) – “Idealization and Non-Factive Understanding in Machine Learning” |
Zoom:
Josh Hunt (Michigan) – “A Unified Account of Comparative Understanding” |
4:30-5:20pm
(22:30-23:20 CEST) |
In person:
Johanna Sarisoy (Edinburgh) – “The Possibility and Limitations of Robustness Analysis in Psychopathology” |
In person:
William D'Alessandro (LMU Munich) – “Unrealistic models in mathematics” |
Conference dinner at 7pm – location TBD