[PhilPhys] Scientific Philosophy: Past and Future (Tilburg, 13 April): Program online

[Stephan Hartmann]

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Workshop on
Scientific Philosophy: Past and Future
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
http://www.uvt.nl/tilps/sppf2010
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Various philosophers of the past - and many philosophers of today - believe that there can be real progress in philosophy and that such progress is facilitated crucially by a close interaction between philosophy and the sciences. "Scientific Philosophy" maintains that philosophical theses and arguments should be just as clear and precise as scientific ones; philosophers ought to build theories and models much as scientists do; and the application of mathematical methods as well as input from empirical studies are often necessary in order to gain new insights into old philosophical questions and to progress to new and deeper ones. This workshop will address what Scientific Philosophy is all about, what it has in common with science and where it might diverge from it, what we can learn from its historical successes and failures, and, most importantly, how we should assess its future prospects.
The program of workshop is now online. Please visit:
http://www.uvt.nl/tilps/sppf2010/program
The speakers are Michael Friedman, Stephan Hartmann and Jan Sprenger, Chris Hitchcock, Hannes Leitgeb, Michael Stoeltzner, Joerg Tremmel, and Thomas Uebel. The registration deadline is 15 March 2010. The workshop is followed by the Sydney-Tilburg conference on "The Future of Philosophy of Science" (http://www.uvt.nl/tilps/fps2010).

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