Programme

Thursday, May 18th

 

09:00-09:30 registration
09:30-10:30 keynote: Chiara Ambrosio
Ampliative reasoning from an integrated HPS perspective: some insights from Peirce and Whewell
coffee break
11:00-12:30 Jos Hornikx
Reasoning with a limited number of observations: Testing the case of popular opinion from a Bayesian perspective
Rafal Urbaniak
Narration in judiciary fact-finding: a probabilistic explication
Jared Millson, Kareem Khalifa & Mark Risjord
Explanation as inference (… to the best explanation?)
lunch break
 13:30-15:00 Anna-Sophie Heinemann
How ‘formal’ is the ‘logic of chance’? John Venn’s account of probable inference between ‘conceptualism’ and ‘materialism’ in logic
Steffen Ducheyne
Newton, the regulae philosophandi, and ampliative reasoning
Jagdish Hattiangadi
Difficulties in the way of a formal theory of Baconian induction
coffee break
 15:30-16:30 Matteo Colombo, Leandra Bucher & Jan Sprenger
Determinants of judgments of explanatory power. Credibility, generality, and statistical relevance
Naftali Weinberger
Does causal extrapolation involve ampliative inferences?
 coffee break
 17:00-18:00 keynote: Jon Williamson
Establishing causal claims in medicine
19:00 workshop dinner

 

Friday, May 19th

 

09:30-10:30 keynote: Ulrike Hahn
Bayesian reasoning for non-statistical contexts
 coffee break
11:00-12:30 Raoul Gervais & Dingmar van Eck
Varieties of evidence in causal, ampliative reasoning: the case of circadian rhythms
Mariusz Urbański, Dorota Żelechowska & Natalia Żyluk
Catching abduction. On two instruments for research on abductive reasoning
Patrick Allo
Tracking common information and public announcements in Polymath. Implementing an abductive methodology for the study of online collaboration
lunch break
 14:00-15:00 Szymon Chlebowski, Andrzej Gajda & Mariusz Urbański
Logic of questions, abduction, and paraconsistency
Diderik Batens
Role and teachings of unconscious ampliative steps. Notes on the methodology of ampliative reasoning
coffee break
 15:30-16:30 Mark Faller
Recollecting Peirce’s abduction through Plato’s geometry
Claudia Cristalli & Francesco Bellucci
On introducing and justifying ampliative reasoning. A vindication from Charles S. Peirce
 coffee break
 17:00-18:00 Raphael Scholl
Beyond the bad lot: A historical study of causal inferences in exhaustive hypothesis spaces
Antonio Duarte Calvo
Bru’s and Cuvier’s abductions in the discovery of the megatherium
 18:00 drinks