Programme

Friday, November 13

9:30 – Registration

10:00 – Keynote lecture by Henk de Regt

Scientific explanation and understanding: lessons from Carl Hempel

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Contributed papers: explanation and metaphysics

11.30 – Dingmar van Eck

Ontic, mechanistic, and idealized explanations

12.00 – Ken Aizawa & Carl Gillett

The Ontology and Methodology of Mechanistic Explanation

12.30 – Sandy Berkovski

Is there a metaphysical explanation?

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

Contributed papers: explanation and explanatory reasoning

14:30 – Mary S. Morgan

Narrative Ordering and Explanation

15.00 – Raoul Gervais

Auxiliary assumptions: The tradeoff between explanatory breadth and predictive power reconsidered

15.30 – Matteo Colombo

Experimental philosophy of explanation rising. The case for a plurality of concepts of explanation

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – Keynote Lecture by Phyllis Illari

How are mechanistic explanations understood?

19:00 Workshop dinner

Saturday, November 14

10:00 – Keynote lecture by Erik Weber

The results of philosophical inquiries into scientific explanation: “accounts”, “logics”, “models” or “theories?

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Contributed papers: Explanation and modeling

11.30- Naftali Weinberger

Explanation in Causal Modeling

12.00 – Leen De Vreese

Explaining Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: Mix & Match?!?

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch

Contributed papers: explanation in the sciences

14.30 – Joachim Frans

Is mathematics a domain for philosophers of explanation?

15.00 – Fons Dewulf

How Hempel changed the philosophical reflection on the historical sciences

15.30 – Drinks