[PhilPhys] Second Call: First Principles in Science, June 10-11, 2016 at LMU Munich

[MCMP Phil-Sci]

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The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites papers for the 
following event:

FIRST PRINCIPLES IN SCIENCE: THEIR EPISTEMIC STATUS AND JUSTIFICATION

MCMP, LMU Munich

10-11 June 2016

http://www.firstprinciples2016.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html

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What is the epistemic status of first principles in science and how do 
scientists justify them accordingly? These are the central questions 
that will be discussed at this workshop. So far, discussions about first 
principles and their justification in science have focused largely on 
the natural sciences. For example, philosophical debates around 
Poincaré's conventionalism or the relativized /a priori/ are usually 
grounded in concrete case studies from physics. Yet, first principles 
occupy an equally important, yet controversial, role in other natural 
and as well in the social sciences, where their status and epistemic 
role raise similar concerns, economics and psychology being only two 
cases in point. For example, it has been widely discussed that economic 
theories rest upon first principles of human behavior that have long 
been fiercely defended by economists and justified in various different 
ways. Yet, at the same time, they have been attacked and in some cases 
even replaced by behavioral economists. The workshop aims at renewing 
the existing discussions on the status and justification of first 
principles in sciences by expanding them to cases beyond physics into 
economics, psychology, biology and chemistry. This will help us to 
better understand the way in which first principles are used and 
justified in the natural and the social sciences alike, and thereby 
address more general questions concerning the way in which knowledge is 
produced in these disciplines.

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

We welcome papers within the aims of the workshop, both from a 
historical and contemporary perspective, from a wide range of 
disciplines. We will select up to 4 contributed talks. Abstracts of no 
more than *500 words* should be submitted to 
firstprinciples at lrz.uni-muenchen.de 
<mailto:firstprinciples at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> by the *31st of January 
2016*. The abstracts should be prepared for blind review. Author details 
are to be included on a separate cover sheet. Participants will be given 
45 minutes for their presentation, including Q&A.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 31 January 2016

DATE OF NOTIFICATION: 07 February 2016

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INVITED SPEAKERS:

·Robin Hendry (Durham)

·Catherine Herfeld (MCMP, LMU)

·Kevin Hoover (Duke)

·Liz Irvine (Cardiff)

·Milena Ivanova (MCMP, LMU)

·Samir Okasha (Bristol)

·Michael Stöltzner(South Carolina)

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For further information please contact Catherine Herfeld or Milena 
Ivanova under: firstprinciples at lrz.uni-muenchen.de 
<mailto:firstprinciples at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>.





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