2024 Integrated History and Philosophy of Science conference
Cotham House, University of Bristol
The Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 2024 conference is held in Bristol this year. We are researchers who work history and philosophy of science from an integrated approach. Our group is based in the UK but welcome contributions and collaborations from around the world.
Keynote speakers: Ana-Maria Cretu (Bristol), Gregory Radick (Leeds)
https://philevents.org/event/show/123466
Programme:
Thursday, 29 August 2024
10:30 am to 11:30 am
Tzuchien Tho: Formal Cause in Lagrangian analytical mechanics
Amaia Corral-Villate: On the emergence of virtual particles in classical mechanics
11:40 am to12:40 pm
Rami Jreige: An Historical Approach to In Re Mathematical Structuralism
Mark Anthony Winstanley: Jean Piaget and Propositional Logic
12:40 pm to 2:00 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Adrian Currie: The Paleoartist’s Dilemma
Mahdi Khalili: Stance Voluntarism Isn’t Useful
Hanyang Xu: Chinese coolies' contributions in 19th century Latin America guano economy
Antonio Vassallo: Relationalism about space and time: An unfinished revolution?
Uzma Malik: Stretching modelling practices in physics to biology
Javier Anta and Julia Sánchez-Dorado: The pursuit of information-theoretical biology (1950-2024)
5:30 pm to 6:45 pm
Ana-Maria Cretu KEYNOTE
Human Computers as Instruments
Friday, 30 August 2024
09:30 am to10:00 am
Joe Gough and Emily Webster: Material history and conceptual change in integrated history and philosophy of science: the case of Clostridioides difficile and the microbiome
10:10 am to11:10 am
Kirsten Walsh: Fertile Frameworks and Newton’s Experiments
Filippo Iorillo: The True Metaphysics in Hume’s first Enquiry, a Reinterpretation in the Context of 18th-Century Scottish Philosophy
11:20 am to12:20 pm
Jonathan Fay: On the Reissner-Sciama hypothesis: Historical proposals for a Machian unification of gravity and inertia
12:20pm to 2:00 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Ray Pedersen and Jer Steeger: Complementarity as infringement
João Luís Cordovil: Challenging the Universalist assumption of Quantum Mechanics: Towards an Emergentist Interpretation
3:40 pm to 4:55 pm
Gregory Radick KEYNOTE
Counterfactual History as a Theme for Integrated HPS