British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 2021 programme (07.07.21)

Times in the programme are UK times (British Summer Time = GMT+1 = UTC+1)

Tuesday 6th July: Pre-Conference Events

Time Session Details

12pm – 1pm AGM All BSPS members 1pm – 3.30pm Executive Committee Meeting Executive committee only

Stories, Experiences & Advice: Panel: Azita Chellappoo, Caspar Jacobs, 3pm – 4pm Finishing the PhD and Lucy Osler Room 2

Stories, Experiences & Advice: Panel: Jessica Laimann, Karoliina 4.30pm – 5.30pm After the PhD Pulkkinen, and James Read. Room 2

Wendy Parker, Rob Rupert, 6pm – 7.30pm Meet the BJPS Editors Beth Hannon Room 1

Wednesday 7th July

Time Session (Track) Room 1 2pm – 2.30pm Welcome BSPS President Alexander Bird

2.30pm – 4pm Parallel Sessions 1: Symposia

Room 1 Room 3 Chair: Karoliina Pulkkinen Chair: Genco Guralp Sarah Hijmans; Analogy and Unity Alastair Wilson; Dependence in Pieter Thyssen; in Chemical Katie Robertson; Physics Alexander Franklin; Ontology Michael Townsen Hicks Vanessa Seifert

Room 4 Chair: Mike Stuart Noelia Iranzo Ribera; Fictions in Room 2 Nick Wiggershaus; Science and Chair: Anneli Jefferson Sam Rijken Metaphysics Sahanika Conceptual and Ratnayake; Evidential Issues in Riana Betzler; Contemporary Room 5 Hannah Blythe Psychotherapy Chair: Andre Curtis-Trudel Florian Boge; Models in Particle Martin King; Physics: Three Niels Martens Challenges to Realism

4pm – 4.30pm Coffee Break

4.30pm – 6pm Parallel Sessions 2: Papers

Shaun Stanley Cultural Evolutionary Room 1 Theory Chair: Conrad Heilmann moved to Room 3, 6.30 pm Johanna Thoma On the Possibility of on Friday an Anti-Paternalist Behavioural Welfare Economics Room 4 John Greenwood Durkheim's Dogma Christopher Clarke How does process Chair: Sophie Juliane Veigl tracing work in Aaron Kenna In partial defence of political science? the value-free ideal of science Room 2 Karoliina Pulkkinen Could scientific Chair: Gabe Dupre representations help to cultivate epistemic Anneli Jefferson How not to use the humility? hardware/software distinction in Matteo De A dynamic model of philosophy of Benedetto and theory choice: psychiatry Michele Luchetti epistemic values as Michael Bruckner Extended or environmental niches Embodied? Questioning a Conventional Alliance in Cognitive Room 5 Science Viktoriia Kononova Interoceptive fear: A Chair: Kirsten Walsh cognitive Dana Jalobeanu Experimenting with architecture artificial life: Francis Bacon’s Historia de animato et inanimato Room 3 Areins Pelayo Was Newton a Chair: Azita Chellappoo Probabilist? Brandon Imitation and Animal Tinklenerg Culture: A Critical Bobby Vos Integrated HPS? Appraisal of the ‘Zone of Formal versus Latent Solutions’ Historical Hypothesis Approaches to Olesya Carving the Social Philosophy of Bondarenko Environment at Genetic Science Joints

6pm – 7.30pm Plenary 1 Chair: Adrian Currie Room 1 Data and the Quest for Facts: Speaker: Sabina Leonelli Empirical Knowledge in the Age of Big and Open Data

7.30 – 8.00pm BSPS Open book series Bryan Roberts and David Teira Gathertown

Thursday 8th July

Time Session (Track)

12pm – 1.30pm Special Interest Lunch Room 3 Women in philosophy (chair: Kirsten Walsh)

2pm – 3.30pm Presidential Chair: Rachel Cooper Room 1 Address

Speaker: Alexander Bird Against Empiricism

3.30pm – 4pm Coffee Break

4pm – 5.30pm Parallel Sessions 3: Symposia

Room 1 Room 3 Chair: Melissa Vergara Fernández Chair: Samuel Fletcher Catherine Herfeld; Model Transfer in Neil Dewar; SU(n) Surplusage: Wybo Houkes; Science John Dougherty; Symmetry, Gauge, Tarja Knuuttila; Henrique Gomes; and Equivalence Andrea Loettgers; Tushar Menon; Dunja Seselja Sarita Rosenstock

Room 2 Room 4 Chair: Richard Lohse Chair: Viktoriia Kononova Mathias Frisch; Scientific Experts David Colaco; What We Have Katherine Furman; and the Pressures Ali Boyle; Learned about Memory Axel Gelfert; of Pandemic Policy Michael Levin; (and What Remains to Stephen John; Advice Sarah Robins be Learned) Marion Vorms

Room 5 Chair: Michele Luchetti Silvia Ivani; Epistemic Diversity Caglar Dede; and Argumentative Merel Talbi; Practices in Science Roosmarijn van Woerden; Elias Anttila

5.30pm – 6pm Coffee Break

6pm – 7.30pm Parallel Sessions 4: Papers

Room 3 Room 1 Chair: Dana Jalobeanu Chair: Bobby Vos Lorenzo Wave Function Realism Ameer Sarwar Causal Specificity, Lorenzetti vis-à-vis Functional Functional Reduction Mappings, and Christian J. Unification and Bijective Functions Feldbacher- Explanation: A causal Cristian Larroulet Against Prohibition Escamilla and perspective Philippi (Or, When Using Alexander Ordinal Scales to Gebharter Compare Groups is OK) Stavros Reconsidering multi-level Javier Belastegui Kant's Duality Ioannidis mechanistic explanation Principle for Kinds

Room 4 Room 2 Chair: Liz Irvine Chair: Areins Pelayo Gabe Dupre The What and the Why of Representation Federica Bocchi The Influence of Processual Louise Daoust Representationalism, Ontology and Deep Size Perception, and Time Literacy on the Challenge from Conservation: the Deep Fovea case of the Kruger National Park Marko Jurjako The explanatory limits of Marina Baldissera, Evaluating the predictive processing: Suraje Dessai, quality of model- self-deception and the Seamus Bradley based regional personal/subpersonal and David A. climate distinction Stainforth information: the case of the UK Climate Projections Room 5 2018 Chair: Olesya Bondarenko Mark Boespflug Faith in Science? Azita Chellappoo Can a microbiome be Belief and ‘obesogenic’? Skepticism in Mauricio Suárez The Complex Nexus of Climate Change Evolutionary Fitness Reconsidered Zdenka Brzović; Transitional Predrag Šustar Functionality of Genomic Segments: From Stochasticity to Robustness

7.30pm onwards Games Night MC: James Read Room 1

Friday 9 July

Time Session (Track)

12pm – 1.30pm Special Interest Lunch Room 2 The future of online events (chair: Bobby Vos)

2pm – 3.30pm Parallel Sessions 5: Papers & Symposia

Room 1 Room 3 Chair: Matt Farr Chair: Alexander Bird

Eugene Y. S. Chua Degeneration and Symposium Entropy Jon Williamson; Evidential pluralism Andre Curtis- The (Non)Problem Michael Wilde; and Causality in the Trudel of Simultaneous William Levack- Special Sciences Implementation Payne; Genco Guralp Probing New Yafeng Shan; Physics in Samuel D. Taylor Experimental Cosmology: Evidence Amalgamation, Room 4 Discordance, and Chair: Cristian López Robustness Symposium

Room 2 Guy Hetzroni; Symmetry Caspar Jacobs; Principles Chair: Johannes Findl Sebastian Murgueitio Charles Beasley Replication Ramirez; pluralism James Read Chiara Lisciandra Domain-specific explanatory norms and interdisciplinary Room 5 collaboration Chair: Johanna Thom a Paweł Jarnicki and The Aristotle Symposium Hajo Greif Experience and the Milena Ivanova; The Aesthetics Genesis of the Alice Murphy; of Scientific Kuhnian Sophie Ritson; Experiments Revolution Helen De Cruz

3.30pm – 4pm Coffee Break

4pm – 5.30pm Parallel Sessions 6: Papers

Room 3 Chair: Christopher Clarke Room 1 Jennifer Jhun Reasoning with Chair: James Read multiple models in Matt Farr What's so special economics about initial Melissa Vergara On model diversity: conditions? Fernández; The CAPM Antonio Vassallo Time and change Conrad Heilmann; and Pedro Naranjo in pure shape Marta dynamics Szymanowska Laurie Letertre Causal Johannes Findl; Prediction, nonseparability and Javier Súarez understanding and its implications for COVID-19: Early spatiotemporal epidemiological relations models of COVID-19 shed light on the relationship between Room 2 prediction and Chair: Zdenka Brzovic understanding

Alexander Geddes The Limits of Room 4 Immunology: Pradeu on Chair: Mark Boespflu Organisms and Alfonso García- Truthlikeness for Organismic Parthood Lapeña Probabilistic Laws François Pellet Evidence-Based Kabir Bakshi Better Than The Medicine, the Better Best? COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Donal Khosrowi Extrapolating Metaphysics of Causal Effects - Causation Where Is Our Martin Zach Epistemic roles of Theory of similarity Confidence? considerations in mouse models of Room 5 cancer Chair: Louise Daoust

Charles Rathkopf On the empirical content of deep neural networks

David Barack Computation with Neural Manifolds rd (3 talk cancelled)

5.30pm – 6.00pm Coffee Break

6.00pm – 7.30pm Parallel Sessions 7: Papers

Room 3 Chair: Donal Khosrowi

Cristina Sagrafena The Old Evidence Problem in the Room 1 Inference to the Best Chair: Antonio Vassallo Explanation Samuel Fletcher Physical Shaun Stanley Cultural Evolutionary Computation and Theory and the Landauer's Difficulties of Inferring Principle Microevolutionary Colin McCullough- Mathematical rigor processes from Benner and scientific Macroevolutionary understanding Patterns Cristian López Against Symmetry Conrad Heilmann; Testing concerns Fundamentalism, Marta Szymanowska; about financial in Defense of Melissa Vergara economics Symmetry Fernández Deflationism Room 4 Chair: Aaron Kenna Room 2 Benjamin Chin-Yee On the Uses and Chair: Hajo Greif Abuses of Biomarkers Callum Duguid Metalaws in in Genomic Medicine Biology Sophie Juliane Veigl Feminist Philosophy of Immunology Phase 2 – Michael Stuart Pragmatic Avoiding Taxonomic Understanding Can Chauvinism Do on Its Own talk cancelled Themistoklis Perceptual Pantazakos Pluralism and Theory-Ladenness Room 5 of Observation Chair: David Barack Davide Coraci; Reverse Inference and Gustavo Cevolani Bayesian Confirmation in Cognitive Neuroscience Elizabeth Irvine Back to basics: Prediction and predictive processes Nina Poth Unifying predictive cognition

7.30pm onwards Pub Night Gathertown