[PhilPhys] Paris International Workshop on Thought Experiments and Computer Simulations

[Rawad Skaff]

Paris International Workshop: Thought experiments and Computer Simulations From
Thursday, 11th March 2010, 09:00 to Saturday, 13th March 2010, 13:15

Organization: *Rawad El Skaf*, IHPST
   Scientific Committee: Anouk Barberousse, IHPST, Rawad El Skaf, IHPST, Paul
Humphreys, University of Virginy et John Norton, University of Pittsburgh

  *Program*
 Thursday, March 11, 2010
IHPST, 13 rue du Four, 75006, Paris, Grande salle

*09h00-10h30 :* Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia
*Computer Simulations and Materiality*
*10h30-11h00 :* PAUSE
*11h00-11h45 :* Darrell Rowbottom, University of Oxford
*Thought Experiments and Computer Simulations: Different Ends, Same Means!*
*11h45-12h30 :* Margherita Arcangeli, Institut Nicod, Paris
*The Experimental Triangle: a Plea for a Ménage à Trois*
*12h30-14h30 :* LUNCH
*14h30-16h00 :* Seth Bullok, University of Southampton
*Ten years of opaque thought experiments*
*16h00-16h30 :* PAUSE
*16h30-17h15 :* Yiftach Fehige, University of Toronto
*Thought experiments, Computer Simulations and Blended Simulations*
*17h15-18h00 :* Viola Schiaffonati and Davide Mazza, Politecnico di Milano
*Exploring the world: Why computer simulations are not just implemented
thought experiments*

Friday, March 12
*Morning*: Salle Weil, ground floor left, Ecole normale supérieure, 45 rue
d'Ulm, 75005 Paris

*09h00-10h30 :* Michael Weisberg, University of Pennsylvania
*Getting Serious About Similarity*
*10h30-11h00 :* PAUSE
*11h00-11h45 :* Alexander Riegler, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
*A Thought Experiment on Thought Experiments: Toward a Computational
Implementation*
*11h45-12h30 :* Corinna Elsenbroich, University of Surrey
*Thought-Experiments and Agent-Based-Simulation*
*12h30-14h30 :* LUNCH
*
*
 *Afternoon*: Salle 235A, 2nd floor, Ecole normale supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm,
75005 Paris

*14h30-15h15 :* Claus Beisbart, University of Konstanz
*Computer simulations are thought experiments are arguments?*
*15h15-16h00 :* Eran Tal, University of Toronto
*Affording Ignorance: The Epistemic Economy of Simulations and Thought
Experiments*
*16h00-16h30 :* PAUSE
*16h30-17h15 :* Johannes Lenhard, University of Bielefeld
*When Experiments Start. Simulation experiments within simulation
experiments*
*17h15-18h00 :* Matthias Dörries, University of Strasbourg
*From Thought Experiments to Simulations: Cold War Science and Climatic
Change*
Saturday, March 13
IHPST, 13 rue du Four, 75006, Paris, Grande salle

*09h00-10h30 :* Erik Olsson, Lund University
*A simulation approach to social epistemology*
*10h30-11h00 :* PAUSE
*11h00-11h45 :* Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Rutgers University
*The Psychology of the Scientific Imagination*
*11h45-12h30 :* Henrik Kragh Sørensen, University of Aarhus
*Are proofs mathematical experiments? Are mathematical experiments proofs?*
*12h30-13h15 :* Ryan Muldoon, Joseph L. Rotman Institute of Science and
Values
*Replacing Thought Experiments with Computer Simulation in Political
Philosophy*


For more information please visit;
http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/operations/colloque.php?id_colloque=15&langue=en
and for practical information:
http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/ihpst/ihpst.php?fichier=informations_pratiques&langue=en


-- 
Rawad El Skaf
Doctorant Statutaire, (Ph.D) IHPST, Paris 1 Sorbonne
http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/123,rawad_el_skaf.html
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