There will be a conference today and tomorrow at the University of Stockholm on the philosophy of experiment. Here is further information:
Where: Stockholm University, Albanova Campus, House 3, SR 4205
When: 16.-17. November 2023
Web: https://www.su.se/department-of-philosophy/calendar/conference-on-philosophy-of-experiment-1.667942
If you want to attend via Zoom, please write an email to [email protected].
Thursday, November 16
9.30-9.40 Welcome
9.45-10.30 Dana Matthiessen (Minnesota C. for Phil.Sci.) and Nora Mills Boyd (Siena Coll.)
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology
10.35-11.20 Collin Rice (Colorado State U.)
Balancing Experimental and Mathematical Constraints in Mesoscale Modeling in Physics
Coffee
11.50-12.35 Giora Hon (U. Haifa)
Elements of the practice of experimentation: Commitment, methodology and technique
12.35-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Till Grüne-Yanoff (KTH Stockholm)
Simulations Are Not Experiments
14.50-15.35 Milena Ivanova (Cambridge U.)
What Makes an Experiment Beautiful?
Coffee
16.00-16.45 James Mattingly (U. Georgetown)
Classifying experiments by way of information bottlenecks
Friday, November 17
9.45-10.30 Hugo Baeuchemin (CERN & Tufts U.), Kent Staley (St Louis U.)
What is empirical? A consideration from the triad of measurement, uncertainty, and sensitivity
10.35 -11.20 Enno Fischer (U. Bochum)
The pursuitworthiness of experiments. An analysis of “no-lose” theorems.
Coffee
11.50-12.35 Florian Boge (U. Dortmund)
Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery and the Theory Freedom-Robustness Trade-Off
12.35-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Jamee Elder (Harvard U.)
Theory Testing in Gravitational-wave Astrophysics
14.50-15.35 Ahmed Sarwar (U. Wuppertal)
Best explanation for the source of the information: The role of IBE in modern observations
Coffee
16.00-16.45 Slobodan Perovic (U. Belgrade)
Theoretical and Observational Explanations in Cosmology Following the Landmark Discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation
16.50-17.50 Concluding discussion
Organized by Richard Dawid (Stockholm University) & Harald Wiltsche (Linköping University)
The conference is part of a series of inaugural events hosted by the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Physics.
