Thursday, May 7
9:30 – Registration
10:00 – Keynote lecture by Leen De Vreese
Explanation and scientific understanding in medicine
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
Contributed papers: Logic and Explanation I
11:30 – Diderik Batens
Abduction: Some conceptual issues
12:15 – Mathieu Beirlaen & Bert Leuridan
Discovering Causal Regularities: A formal explication
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Contributed papers: Explanation in the sciences
14:30 – Jan Potters & Erik Weber
Unification and explanation in linguistics
15:15 – Raoul Gervais
Explanatory inferences in cognitive science
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – Keynote Lecture by Igor Douven
Inference to the best explanation. What is it, and why should we care?
19:00 Workshop dinner
Friday, May 8
9:30 – Keynote lecture by Gerhard Schurz
Abductive belief revision
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Contributed papers: Logic and Explanation II
11:00 – Szymon Chlebowski & Andrzej Gajda
Abductive question-answer systems
11:30 – Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion & Adam Kups
Identifying efficient abductive hypotheses using multi-criteria dominance relations
12:00 – Joke Meheus
Explanation and abduction in medicine: some formal challenges
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Contributed papers: Explanation and IBE
14:00 – Peter Brössel
On the role of explanatory and systematic power in scientific reasoning
14:30 – Ludwig Fahrbach
IBE & Bayesianism
15:00 – Rune Nyrup
Empirical Problems for Explanationism
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
Contributed papers: Miscellaneous
16:00 – Matteo Colombo & Jan Sprenger
Explanatory value and probabilistic reasoning: An empirical study
16:30 – Miroslava Trajkowski
Abduction, perception and emotion: Pattern recognition of body maps
17:00 – Drinks