MODELS, MECHANISMS AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY
The research project Trends and Tensions in Intellectual Integration (TINT) and Philosophy of Science group (POS) organize a workshop on Friday the 31st of October and on Saturday the 1st of November (preregistration for Saturday reguired).
Guest speaker: Robert C. Richardson (University of Cincinnati)
-- Friday the 31st, the Main Building, auditorium XI, 10.15-18.00 --
10.15-11.15 Matti Sintonen - Genes and the New Mechanical Philosophy
11.15-12.15 Tarja Knuuttila - Indirect representation, multidisciplinary templates and underlying mechanisms
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Robert C. Richardson - On modeling in systems biology
14.30-15.30 Erika Mansnerus - Explanatory and predictive functions of simulation models in infectious disease epidemiology
15.30-16.00 Refreshments
16.00-17.00 Caterina Marchionni - The virtues of generality in economic modelling
17.00-18.00 Till Grüne-Yanoff - Are economic models tools for theoretical isolation?
-- Saturday the 1st, Hotel Arthur (Vuorikatu 19), 10.15-18.00 --
10.15-11.15 Uskali Mäki - How to illuminate the black box? Challenges of unification and interdisciplinarity
11.15-12-15 Tomi Kokkonen - Innateness in biology and psychology: Explanatory black boxes and conceptual confusions in interdisciplinary approach to developmental mechanisms
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Emrah Aydinonat - Evolution of Money: Perspectives from Neurobiology and Economics
14.30-15.30 Jaakko Kuorikoski - Explanatory (ir)relevance of mechanistic detail: The case of neuroeconomics (w. Petri Ylikoski)
15.30-16.00 Refreshments
16.00-17.00 Aki Lehtinen - Robustness analysis and the Duhem-Quine thesis
17.00-18.00 Petri Ylikoski: Explanatory presuppositions and disciplinary boundaries
PREREGISTRATION REGUIRED for Saturday. Please, send me an e-mail by 23.10 if you are attending the workshop on Saturday.
See also the workshop website (papers available from the 28th of October):
http://www.helsinki.fi/filosofia/tint/events/index.htm
Welcome!