Conference: Philosophy of Experiment, 16-17 November 2023

By Wuthrich

There will be a conference today and tomorrow at the University of Stockholm on the philosophy of experiment. Here is further information:

Philosophy of Experiment

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 harald.wiltsche@liu.se.

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.