[PhilPhys] 2nd History and Philosophy of Cosmology Conference (H&PCC2024)

[Marco Forgione]

The COSMOS Network is happy to announce the program of the  2nd History and
Philosophy of Cosmology Conference (H&PCC2024) that will be held at the
University of Milan on 10-13 September 2024.
There is no conference fee, but *registration is required*. Please
email *cosmosproject at unimi.it
<cosmosproject at unimi.it>* indicating your name, surname, affiliation,
attendance dates and dietary requirements *by 1 August 2024.*
For further information, please visit https://cosmosproject.unimi.it/en/
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*2nd History & Philosophy of Cosmology Conference (H&PCC 2024)*

*Sala Malliani*
University of Milan
Via Festa del Perdono 7
20122 Milan

PROGRAM:
*Tuesday 10 September 2024 *
9:30 – 10:00 *Registration and Welcome*
10:00 – 11:15 *Lydia Patton *(Virginia Tech): *Black Holes as Probes: The
Standard Siren Method*

*Coffee break*

11:45 – 13:00 *COSMOS Research Team Group (presentation of results) *

*Lunch*

*14:30 – 15:45* *History of Cosmology panel:*
14:30 – 14:55 *Nichole Levesley* (University of Cambridge):* Shifting
Limits of Knowledge in Modern Cosmology: Cosmogonical Debates between
1948–1965*
14:55 – 15:20 *Alessio Rocci *(Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Solvay
Institutes): *The First Solvay Physics Council on Cosmology (1958)*
15:20 – 15:45 *Eve-Aline Dubois* (University of Namur): *Early conceptions
of an infinite universe*

*Coffee break*

*16:00 – 17:15* *Symposium “Cosmology of Post-Hellenistic Platonism. Two
Ongoing Research Cases”: Alexandra Michalewski *(CNRS), “Matter, Motion and
Primary Bodies. New perspectives on Middle Platonist interpretations of
*Tim*. 30a”; *Giacomo De Andreis *(PhD FINO, University of Pavia),
“Precosmic Motion or Movement? Numenius’ Minimalist Version of Temporalism”
Discussion with *Arianna Piazzalunga *(University of Turin), *Laura
Marongiu *(University of Milan), *Federico M. Petrucci *(University of
Turin).

*Wednesday 11 September 2024*

9:30 – 10:45 *George Ellis *(University of Cape Town): *Cosmology today:
Foundational Issues*

*Coffee Break*

*11:15 – 12:30 Philosophy of Cosmology Panel A:*
11:15 – 11:40* Antonis Antoniou *(University of Bonn, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens): *Laws, Initial Conditions and Physical
Modality: Lessons from Cosmology *
11:40 – 12:05* Maura Burke *(Utrecht University): *A Novel
Conceptualization of Fine-Tuning in Inflationary Cosmology*
12:05 – 12:30* Álvaro Mozota *(University of Girona): *Does quantum
cosmology predict the age of the universe?*

*Lunch*

14:30 – 15:45 *Karim Thébault *(University of Bristol): *Model-Based
Explication and Quantum Singularity Resolution*

*Coffee Break*

16:15 – 16:40 *Adam Koberinski *(Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University
of Western Ontario): *Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology*
*16:45 – 18:00* *Symposium “Underdetermination in past and present
cosmology”: Julien Bernard *(Aix Marseille University): “The empirical
underdetermination of theories at the time of the birth of relativistic
cosmology”; *Simon Beyne* (Aix Marseille University): “The multiple
determination strategy to combat underdetermination in the dark matter
problem”; *Marie Gueguen *(University of Rennes): “Back to simplicity: how
effective dimensions can break down artificial cases of
underdetermination”; *Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard *(IHPST, Paris): “Rethinking
empirical equivalence for today’s cosmology”; Théo Simon (University of
Montpellier): “Resolving cosmological tensions to unveil the dark sector of
the Universe: a study of the synergy between data, phenomenological models
and theoretical models”.



*Thursday 12 September 2024*9:30 – 10:45 *Renate Loll *(Radboud University,
Nijmegen):* TBA*

*Coffee Break*

*11:15 – 12:30* *Philosophy of Cosmology Panel B: *
11:15 – 11:40* Lorenzo Lorenzetti *(University of Bristol): *Making Sense
of Gravitational Thermodynamics*
11:40 – 12:05* Antonios Papaioannou *(Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht
University): *Circularities in the search for empirical grounding for the
cosmological principle*
12:05 – 12:30* Anastasiia Lazutkina *(University of Wuppertal): *LCDM and
MOND - Divergent Epistemologies in Cosmological Explanations*

*Lunch*

*14:30 – 15:45* *Symposium “Cosmological Spacetime–Matter Distinction”:
Antonio Ferreiro & Alex Fleuren *(Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht
University): “Spacetime–Matter distinction in scalar field theories and
applications to Inflation”; *Sanne Vergouwen *(Freudenthal Institute,
Utrecht University): “Black Holes as Massive Spacetime”; *Niels
Martens *(Freudenthal
Institute, Utrecht University; BHI Harvard): “Interpreting Dark Energy”

*Coffee Break*

16:15 – 17:30 *Luca Amendola *(University of Heidelberg): *What do we
really measure in cosmology?*
17:30 – 18:45 *COSMOS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING*

20:00* Conference dinner *


*Friday 13 September 2024 *
9:30 – 10:45* Jim Wheatherall *(University of California, Irvine): *Two
Tooth Fairies and a Dentist: Closing the Loop on Lambda CDM*

*Coffee Break*

*11:15 – 12:30 Symposium “The Physicality of Black Holes”: Niels
Linnemann *(University
of Geneva): “What makes black hole models physically reasonable?” (joint
work with Yichen Luo and Chris Smeenk);* Christian Wüthrich *(University of
Geneva): “Beyond the limits of analogue experiments”;* Marta Pedroni
*(University
of Geneva): “Are black hole singularities weakly located?”; *Charlotte
Zito *(University of Geneva): “Are black holes a case for
supersubstantivalism?”

12:30 – 13:00 Farewell and announcement of the next H&PCC2026


*LOC:* Silvia De Bianchi, Laura Follesa, Marco Forgione, Laura Marongiu,
Federico Viglione.

*SOC: *Antonis Antoniou (University of Bonn), Salvatore Capozziello
(University of Naples), Silvia De Bianchi (University of Milan), Claus
Kiefer (University of Cologne), Niels Martens (University of Utrecht),
Christopher Smeenk (University of Western Ontario).

-- 
Marco Forgione
Postdoc in Philosophy, University of Milan (IT).
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