[PhilPhys] CfP: Why trust a theory (LMU Munich, 7-9 December 2015)

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>   WHY TRUST A THEORY?
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>   RECONSIDERING SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY IN LIGHT OF MODERN PHYSICS
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>   LMU Munich
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>   7-9 December 2015
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>   www.lmu.de/whytrustatheory2015
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> Fundamental physics today faces increasing difficulties to find conclusive
> empirical confirmation of its theories. Some empirically unconfirmed or
> inconclusively confirmed theories in the field have nevertheless attained
> a high degree of trust among their exponents and are de facto treated as
> well established theories. This situation raises a number of questions
> that are of substantial importance for the future development of
> fundamental physics. Can a high degree of trust in an empirically
> unconfirmed or inconclusively confirmed theory be scientifically
> justified? Does the extent to which empirically unconfirmed theories are
> trusted today constitute a substantial change of the character of
> scientific reasoning? Might some important theories of contemporary
> fundamental physics be empirically untestable in principle?
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> The workshop will be centred around an in-depth discussion of these and
> other related questions, with a particular focus on the methodological and
> philosophical aspects. As such, it will be an interdisciplinary event,
> involving physicists and philosophers of science. It will bring together
> main exponents of important theories in fundamental physics, physicists
> who have expressed criticism of the current strategies of theory
> assessment in fundamental physics and philosophers who have thought about
> those issues.
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>   INVITED SPEAKERS:
>      Peter Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University)
>      Matthias Bartelmann (University of Heidelberg)
>      Radin Dardashti (LMU Munich)
>      Richard Dawid (LMU Munich)
>      Gia Dvali (LMU Munich)
>      George Ellis (University of Cape Town)
>      David Gross (UC Santa Barbara and Kavli Institute)
>      Sabine Hossenfelder (NORDITA, Stockholm)
>      Nick Huggett (University of Illinois at Chicago)
>      Gordon Kane (University of Michigan)
>      Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU Munich)
>      Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY, New York)
>      Joseph Polchinski (UC Santa Barbara and Kvali Institute)
>      Carlo Rovelli (University of Aix Marseilles)
>      Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins Univ. & Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
>      Chris Smeenk (Western University)
>      Karim Thébault (LMU Munich)
>      Chris Wüthrich (University of Geneva)


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