BSPS 2019 Annual Conference
17-19 July 2019, Durham University
17-19 July 2019, Durham University
The BSPS holds a major annual conference every year in the summertime. The call for papers is typically in the fall, and deadlines for symposium and contributed paper proposals are typically between January and March. The 2019 annual conference at Durham University took place on 17-19 July 2019. Attendance at the conference is restricted to members of the BSPS.
Registration for the BSPS 2019 Annual Conference at Durham University is now closed. The standard conference fee was £60 (£40 for students/unwaged), plus a £5 registration fee for non-Durham delegates. This included lunches on 18 and 19 July, a drinks reception on 17 July, and refreshments throughout. Single accommodation (£38.33/night) and the conference dinner (£20) could also be reserved during the registration process.
All details of the BSPS2019 programme, including abstracts for all talks, can be found in the conference programme booklet. Wednesday 17th July 14.00 – 15.00 Registration Desk opens – Chemistry Atrium 15.00 – 16.30 Parallel Sessions 1 16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break 17.00 – 18.30 Plenary 1: Jenann Ismael (Columbia) – “Rethinking Time and Determinism” 18.30 – 19.30 OUP Drinks reception – Calman Learning Centre, top floor Thursday 18th July 09.30 – 11.00 Parallel Sessions 2 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 13.00 Plenary 2: Robin Hendry (Durham) and Paul Needham (Stockholm) – “Chemical Substances” 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break 13.25 – 13.55 BJPS Meet the Editors – Chemistry 218 14.00 – 15.30 Parallel Sessions 3 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break 16.00 – 18.00 Parallel sessions 4 19.30 – 22.00 Conference dinner – Zizzi’s restaurant, 43-44 Saddler St, Durham DH1 3NU Friday 19th July 09.30 – 11.00 Parallel Sessions 5 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 13.30 Parallel Sessions 6 13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break 13.40 – 14.25 BSPS Annual General Meeting – Calman Learning Centre 202 14.30 – 16.00 Plenary 3: Nicholas Shea (London) – “Syntactic and Semantic Inferences in the Representational Theory of Mind” – All plenary sessions took place in the Rosemary Cramp lecture theatre in the Calman Learning Centre, Room 202. – Parallel Sessions Wednesday 17th July Speakers: Speakers: Speakers: Speakers: Thursday 18th July Speakers: Speakers: Causation, Intervention, and Responsibility Disease, Sex, Senescence and Pregnancy. Who’s normal? Quantifying causal specificity comes up short Why symptom based approaches are not enough: the value of psychiatric diagnoses Confidence: A New Dimension of Scientific Knowledge? Evidence in cancer epidemiology at IARC Socially Extended Scientific Understanding Gauge and boundary: a complicated relationship Perspectival realism about mechanistic functions Salience and the Sure-Thing Principle Going it Alone (Epistemically) Inequivalent Representations and the Coalesced Structures Approach: Non-Radically Unpristine Proper Functions: Etiology Without Typehood Support for Geometric Pooling What are we pluralist about? Fields, loops, and the Strong CP problem Revisiting abstraction and idealization in molecular biology Conjunctive Explanations Prediction markets and extrapolation What’s So Spatial About Time Anyway? Predictable behaviour and intentional action: Disentangling the two Natural Kinds as Real Patterns What is (successful) extrapolation? Time, Cauchy Problems and Physical Modality What does it take to be a psychological primitive? Separating innateness from foundationalism Stability and the Looping Effects of Human Kinds Justifying the Norms of Inductive Inference Indeterminism and the C theory Direct Perception and Computation The ontology of patterns Direct Inference in the Material Theory of Induction Spacetime Emergence and Functional Realization Drawing the semantics–pragmatics distinction in animal communication Friday 19th July Speakers: Speakers: Quinean Realism and a New Defence of Antirealism What we cannot learn from analogue experiments Explanatory Pragmatism as a Philosophy for the Science of Explainable Artificial Intelligence Confirmation Based on Analogical Inference: Bayes meets Jeffrey Predictive Infelicities and the Neo-Humean Conception of Laws Computing and Modelling: Analog vs. Analogue Is physically significant the analogy between Shannon’s information and mechanical statistical entropies? The Literary Form of Scientific Thought Experiments Negotiating History: Contingency, Canonicity, and Case Studies Levels and a new role for mathematics in empirical sciences Gibbs’ Solution of Gibbs’ paradox Probing Novelty at the Large Hadron Collider: Heuristic appraisal of disruptive experimentation Multiple discoveries, multiple errors, and the inevitability of science Difference-making and explanation in mathematics Quantisation as a method of discovery On the Individuation of Choice Options Descriptions don’t always close the gap in the mapping account Sufficiently Real? A Critical Review of the Theorems by Colbeck and Renner Heaviside’s Operational Calculus and the Application of Unrigorous Mathematics Poster Session Antonis Antoniou Niels Linnemann and Kian Salimkhani
For parallel sessions, see schedule below.
Coffee breaks and lunches were held in the Chemistry Atrium and Café.
The poster session was located in the Chemistry Atrium; a list of posters is below.
Parallel sessions 1: 15.00 – 16.30
Symposium
Calman 202Symposium
Chemistry 060Symposium
Chemistry 218Symposium
Archaeology 210
Biases in the Sciences and Science-Based Policy
Lorenzo Casini
Bennett Holman
Saana Jukola
Juergen LandesCosmology in Silico
Helen Meskhidze
Marie GueguenMultiple Realisability in the Sciences
Alexander Franklin
Tuomas E. Tahko
Marion GodmanMoving Past the Naturalism-Normativism Dichotomy in Philosophy of Medicine
Frances Fairbairn
Brandon Conley
Shane Glackin
Parallel sessions 2: 09.30 – 11.00
Symposium
Calman 202Symposium
Chemistry 060General
Chemistry 218
Chair: Sophie RitsonLife
Archaeology 210
Chair: Elselijn Kingma
The New Reduction: Formal, Conceptual, and Physical Perspectives
Neil Dewar
Samuel C. Fletcher
Laurenz Hudetz
Katie RobertsonThe impact of the replication crisis on philosophy: two case studies
Suilin Lavelle
Richard Morey
Hugh RabagliatiEnno Fischer
Jonathan Grose
Ulrich Stegmann
Sam Fellowes
Margherita Harris
Michael Wilde
Parallel sessions 3: 14.00 – 15.30
General
Calman 202
Chair: William PedenPhysical
Chemistry 060
Chair: Alastair WilsonLife
Chemistry 218
Chair: Riana BetzlerMixed
Archaeology 210
Chair: Katie Robertson
Harry Lewendon-Evans
Henrique Gomes
Joe Dewhurst
Chloé de Canson
Katherine Furman
Caspar Jacobs
Geoff Keeling / Niall Paterson
Jean Baccelli / Rush Stewart
Franklin Jacoby
John Dougherty
Martin Zach
David Glass/Jonah Schupbach
Parallel sessions 4: 16.00 – 18.00
General
Calman 202
Chair: Katherine FurmanPhysical
Chemistry 060
Chair: Lina JanssonLife
Chemistry 218
Chair: Suilin LavelleMixed
Archaeology 210
Chair: Beth Hannon
Robert Northcott
Peter Evans / Sam Baron
Catherine Greene
Ana-Maria Crețu
Donal Khosrowi
Lucy James
Domi Dessaix
Riana Betzler
Olav Vassend
Matt Farr
Manolo Martinez
Tiziano Ferrando
William Peden
Baptiste Le Bihan
Mihnea Capraru
[Talk cancelled]
Parallel sessions 5: 09.30 – 11.00
Symposium
Calman 202Symposium
Chemistry 060General
Chemistry 218
Chair: Harry Lewendon-EvansModelling
Archaeology 210
Chair: Wendy Parker
Effective Field Theories: Top-down and bottom-up
Richard Dawid
Michael Stöltzner
Porter Williams
Martin KingStructure and Composition in Chemistry
Karoliina Pulkkinen (pre-recorded video)
Vanessa A. Seifert
Geoffrey Blumenthal (deceased; paper read by V. Seifert)Arthur Harris
Karen Crowther / Niels Linnemann / Christian Wüthrich
Rune Nyrup
Alexander Gebharter / Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla
Chris Dorst
Philippos Papayannopoulos
Parallel sessions 6: 11.30 – 13.30
Physical
Calman 202
Chair: Karen CrowtherMixed
Chemistry 060
Chair: Ana-Maria CrețuGeneral
Chemistry 218
Chair: Peter VickersModelling
Archaeology 210
Chair: Juha Saatsi
Javier Anta
Alice Murphy
Joseph D. Martin / Agnes Bolinska
Atoosa Kasirzadeh
James Wills
Sophie Ritson
Luca Tambolo
Michele Lubrano
Niels Linneman
Roberto Fumagalli
Hannah Tomczyk
Ronnie Hermens
Colin McCullough-Benner
A pragmatic approach on the ontology of models
The constructivist’s programme and the problem of pregeometry
Submissions of abstracts and symposia have now closed and decisions have been notified. For more information, contact: assistant@thebsps.org
A map of the conference talk venues can be found in the conference programme booklet. Information on local cafes, bars, restaurants and taxi firms can be found at the Joint Session page. Further information on and reviews for food and drink establishments can be searched at This Is Durham.
BSPS 2019 took place in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University and surrounding buildings. All areas of the conference venue were disabled accessible, and accessible options were available for the accommodation and conference dinner.
Wendy Parker (Durham)
Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge)
Valia Allori (Northern Illinois)
Sorin Bangu (Bergen)
Harjit Bhogal (Maryland)
Baptiste Le Bihan (Geneva)
Jonathan Birch (LSE)
Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)
Harvey Brown (Oxford)
Ellen Clarke (Leeds)
Karen Crowther (Geneva)
Erik Curiel (Munich)
Adrian Currie (Exeter)
Richard Dawid (Stockholm)
Natalja Deng (Yonsei)
Zoe Drayson (UC Davis)
Peter Evans (Queensland)
Matt Farr (Cambridge)
Luke Fenton-Glynn (UCL)
Samuel Fletcher (Minnesota)
Laura Franklin-Hall (NYU)
Henrique Gomes (Cambridge)
Carl Hoefer (Barcelona)
Vera Hofmann-Kolss (Cologne)
Nick Huggett (Chicago)
Andreas Hütteman (Cologne)
Alastair Isaac (Edinburgh)
Milena Ivanova (Cambridge)
Molly Kao (Montreal)
Elselijn Kingma (Southampton)
Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn)
Peter Lewis (Vermont)
Christian List (LSE)
Conor Mayo-Wilson (Washington)
Fred Muller (Erasmus)
James Nguyen (UCL)
Patricia Palacios (Salzburg)
James Read (Oxford)
Juha Saatsi (Leeds)
Simon Saunders (Oxford)
Samuel Schindler (Aarhus)
Elay Shech (Alabama)
Tuomas Tahko (Bristol)
Karim Thébault (Bristol)
Johanna Thoma (LSE)
Emily Thomas (Durham)
Kirsten Walsh (Exeter)
Charlotte Werndl (Salzburg)
Jon Williamson (Kent)
Alastair Wilson (Birmingham)
David Yates (Lisbon)
Lena Zuchowski (Bristol)