Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa



Lisbon Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science

The Unity of Science: Non Traditional Approaches  

 


Program
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The Colloquium’s program is divided in parallel sessions and plenary sessions. The parallel sessions are always numbered, e.g. "Parallel Session G1". The plenary sessions aren’t numbered, e.g. "Plenary Session A".  
All the plenary sessions and the parallel sessions numbered with a "1" will take place at room A. The parallel sessions numbered with a "2" will take place at room B.

Each presentation will last 30 minutes, including discussion. The chairs will be strict. As this is a Theatre, the Colloquium afternoon sessions will have to end exactly at 18h00.


Day 1 - Wednesday, 25th October

Day 2 - Thursday, 26th October

Day 3 - Friday, 27th October

Day 4 - Saturday, 28th  October

 

DAY 1 - Wednesday, 25th October

MORNING

9h00 - Registration of the participants  

PLENARY SESSION A  
(Chair: Olga Pombo) 

room A

10h00 – Welcoming Session

António Nóvoa (Rector of the Lisbon University), Nuno Guimarães (Faculty of Sciences Director), Graziella Canihac (Institut Franco-Portugais), Olga Pombo (Portugal), Shahid Rahman (France) and John Symons (USA).

10h30 – Nancy Cartwright with Sheldon Steed (London,UK)  Keeping track of Neurath's bill: Abstract concepts, stock models and the unity of classical physics  

 


11h15 – Coffee-break
 


11h45 – John Symons (El Paso, USA) Computational Models of Emergence

12h15 - Shahid Rahman (Lille,France) Language Games in Logic and the Role of a Logical Language in the Encyclopedic Project of Otto Neurath

 


12h45 - Lunch Break

AFTERNOON 

PARALLEL SESSION B1 
(Chair:
Paco Calvo
room A

14h30 – Mafalda Blanc (Lisbon, Portugal) 
Unity of Science. Metaphysical  Matrix of an Idea

15h00 – Sandeep K. Gangi ( Hyderabad , India)
A model of scientific hypothesis development, reasoning and tracking: creation of a virtual world in brain for working out theories  

PARALLEL SESSION B2 
(Chair:
Luc Faucher
room B

14h30 - Dan Simbotin ( Bucharest , Romania) 
The Science between bi and tri-dimensional Representation

15h00 – Hossein Sheykh Rezaee ( Durham, U.K)
The Flat Analysis of Properties and the Unity of Science

 


15h30 - Coffee-break
 

PLENARY SESSION C
 (Chair: Paul Humphreys) 
room A

 

16h00 – Alexandre Quintanilha (Oporto,Portugal)
Is Unity a dangerous or useful concept in Science?

16h30 – Olga Pombo  (Lisbon, Portugal)
Unity of Science.
From the Idea to the  Configurations

17h00 – Daniel Andler (Paris, France)
Partial Knowledge  

 

 

 

DAY 2 - Thursday, 26th October

MORNING

PARALLEL SESSION D1 
(Chair: Shahid Rahman) 
room A
 

09h30 - José Luís Garcia (Lisbon, Portugal) 
The Changing Ethos of Science 
 

10h00 - Lavinia Ciungu (Bucharest,Romania) 
Bosbach and the Riecan States on Pseudo-Residuated Lattices
 

10h30 - Dina Mendonça and Isabel Serra (Lisbon, Portugal)
Feelings in Face of Unity of Science

PARALLEL SESSION D2 
(Chair: J.Manuel Torres) 
room B  

09h30 – Chinyere Opara (Lagos, Nigeria) 
(Title to be announced)  

10h00 - Fernando Soler, A. Aliseda and Àngel Nepomuceno (Seville, Spain)  
Searching the Unity of Science: from Classical Logic to Abductive Logical System

10h30 – Rui Moreira (Lisbon, Portugal) 
The XXth Century Physics and the Unity of Science


11h00 - Coffee-break


11h30 - María de la Concepción Caamano Allegre (Stanford Univ., USA)

Pragmatic continuities in empirical science. Some examples from the history of astronomy

12h00 - J. Félix Costa (Lisbon, Portugal) 
Computability and Physics. Essay on the Unity of Science through Computation


11h30 - Vasco Correia (Paris, France)

A Unified Account of Irrationality  


12h00 - Marcus Romberg ( Vastergatan , Sweden ) 
Relevant Metaphysics of Causation


1
2h30 -
Lunch Break

AFTERNOON

PARALLEL SESSION E1 
(Chair:
Rui Moreira
room A

14h30 -Vítor Neves (Coimbra, Portugal) 
Sciences as Open Systems

15h00 –Luc Faucher with Edouard Machery (Montreal,Canada
Unity of Science by Integration: A Case Study

 

PARALLEL SESSION E2 
(Chair: José Croca) 

room B

14h30 - A. Yazdani (Tehran, Iran) 
Appearance or Existence of the Entity Realism "Sense" or Mind

15h00 – Stefanie Wenner ( Berlin , Germany )
No more Mirror Stage: Ressonance and Coupling as Parameters of Unity of Science

 


15h30 - Coffee-break
 

PLENARY SESSION F 
(Chair: Jacques Dubucs) 

room A
 

16h00 –Jan Wolenski   (Cracow, Poland)

Naturalism and the Unity of Science 

 

16h30 – Paul Humphreys (Charlottesville,USA)
Computational Templates as Cross-Disciplinary Bridges
 

  

 

DAY 3 - Friday, 27th October

MORNING


PARALLEL SESSION G1 
(Chair: Jan Wolenski) 

room A

09h30 – Christian Möeckel (Berlin,Germany )
The Cultural Sciences and their Basis in Life. On Ernest Cassirer's Theory of Cultural Sciences

10h00 – Hassan Tahiri (Lille,France )
The Unity of Science and the Arabic tradition. Progress and Controversy - the case of Ibn al-Haytham’s against Ptolemy

10h30 – Fernando Belo (Lisbon, Portugal)  
L'Articulation des Sciences: Une Approche Phénoménologique  

 

PARALLEL SESSION G2 
(Chair: V
ítor Neves) 
room B

09h30 –  Amadiokoro Innocent (Lagos, Nigeria)
The Nigerian Experience in the Philosophy of Science  

10h00 – Isabel Serra and E. Maia (Lisbon, Portugal)
Great Beliefs in Scientific Thinking

10h30 – Shabbir Ahsen (Lahore,Pakistan)  
(Title to be announced)  


11h00 - Coffee-break

11h30 - Catherine Laurent (Paris,France)  

Unity of Science against the Rational Construction of Knowledge
 

 

12h00 – L. Keiff and C. Dégremont (Lille ,France)

Argumentative Pluralism 

 


11h30 -  José Croca (Lisbon, Portugal)
 
The Principle of Eurhythmy. A key to the Unity of Physic


12h00 – Andrés Rivadulla (Madrid, Spain)
Scientific Reasonableness and the Pragmatic Approach to the Unity of Science

 


1
2h30 -
Lunch Break

AFTERNOON

PARALLEL SESSION H1  
(Chair:
Andrés Rivadulla
room A
 

14h30 – Reinhard Kahle (Coimbra, Portugal)  
Theory Change - a metalogical view

15h00 – Fernando Soler, Angel Nepomuceno (Seville, Spain)
Direct abduction through dual resolution  

PARALLEL SESSION H2  
(Chair: Nuno Nabais) 

room B
 

14h30 - Marie Hélène Gorisse (Lille, France) 
Unity in Diversity: The Unity of Knowledge in the Epistemology and the Logic of the Jainas

15h00 – Carlos Fragateiro (Lisbon, Portugal)
Théatre @ Science  


15h30 - Coffee-break

PLENARY SESSION I
 (Chair:
Daniel Andler)
 
room A

 

16h00 – J. Manuel Torres (Bahia Blanca, Argentina)
The Achilles' heel of the Unity of Science Program 
 

16h30 – L. Moniz Pereira (Lisbon, Portugal)  
Evolutionary Psychology and the Unity of Science

NIGHT

20h - The participants will be offered a night at the National Theatre D. Maria II to watch the play "Guerras de Alecrim e Manjerona" by António José da Silva (1737)

 

DAY 4 - Saturday, 28th October

MORNING

PARALLEL SESSION J1
 (Chair: Paul Humphreys)
 
room A
 

09h30 – César Lorenzano (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 
The Structure of Styles

10h00 – Nuno Nabais (Lisbon, Portugal)
Metaphysics of Impossibility and Unity of Science  

10h30 – Dinis Pestana (Lisbon, Portugal)
Dealing with Uncertainty in Modern Science  

PARALLEL SESSION J2 
(Chair: John Symons)
 
room B
 

09h30 – Nathalie Gontier ( Flanders , Belgium ) Introducing Universal Symbiogenesis  

10h00 – F. Carrapiço (Lisbon, Portugal)
The Symbiotic Phenomenon in the Evolutive Context  

10h30 – Paco Calvo (Murcia, Spain)
Plant Neurobiology: Lessons for the Unity of Science  


11h00 - Coffee-break
 

PLENARY SESSION K 
(Chair: John Symons)

 room A

11h30 - João Caraça (Lisbon, Portugal)
Networking Disciplines: a New Approach to the Unity of Knowledge?

12h00 - 16h00 – Jacques Dubucs (Paris, France)
A New Interpretation of Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics

12h45 - Ending Session – John Symons, Olga Pombo and Shahid Rahman  

 

NIGHT

20h30 – Colloquium's closing dinner (booking to be done during the Conference)


More information regarding this Colloquium may be obtained from the website
http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/coloquioscentro/coll.unidade_cc.htm