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