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 |