Wednesday, 4th of December | 14:50-16:50
S1 | Room C6.2.48 - Imagination and diagrams in scientific discovery, organized by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (University of Helsinki & Tallinn University of Technology, Finland) and Francesco Bellucci (Tallinn University of Technology, Finland)
……>> Ubiquity of diagrams: Peirce on diagrammatic reasoning (Francesco Bellucci)
……>> New light from Peirce’s unpublished works on retroductive reasoning (Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen)
S2 | Room C6.2.49 – The relevance of Gaston Bachelard’s thought today, organized by Zbigniew Kotowicz (Centre for Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
……>> Never heal ourselves for having dreamed at water’s edge (Ana Gaspar)
……>> Image and visualization in Gaston Bachelard’s work: the particular case of atomism (Lídia Queiroz)
……>> The relevance of Bachelard for today’s philosophy of science (Zbigniew Kotowicz)
S3 | Room C6.2.50 – Causal powers and relational ontology, organized by Rani Lill Anjum (Universitetet for miljø- og biovitenskap, Norway)
……>> Causation, Tendency, and dispositional ontology (Rani Lill Anjum)
……>> Compositional pluralism, emergence, and relational ontology (Gil C. Santos)
……>> Relational ontology and contemporary physics at the quantum level (João L. Cordovil)
S4 | Room C.6.52 - Understanding and conserving biodiversity, organized by Elena Casetta (Centre for Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal & LabOnt, Italy)
……>> Natural and evolutionary causes for species extinction (Nathalie Gontier)
……>> Patterns of biodiversity from local to global scales (Luís Borda-de-Água)
……>> From ethics to policies: US endangered species acts and EU Natura 2000 (Elena Casetta & Jorge Marques da Silva)
S5 | Room C1.3 - “Science“ and Control“ in the 21st century. Critical approaches towards techniques, technologies and “enhancements” of the mind, organized by Alexander Gerner (Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal)
……>> Eternal sunshine in ‘spotted minds’? On the enhancement of forgetting and optogenetic control mechanisms (Alexander Gerner)
……>> Minds of our own. Exploring the final boundaries of privacy (Sean A. Hays)
……>> Technic of debt as control mechanism. New forms of the production of subjectivity by economic politics (Nuno Nabais)
Thursday, 5th of December | 16:30-18:30
S6 | Room C6.2.48 - New realism: ontology and epistemology, organized by Mario de Caro (University of Roma 3, Italy / Tuft University, Mass., USA) and Maurizio Ferraris (LabOnt, University of Turin, Italy)
……>> Realism and liberal naturalism (Mario De Caro)
……>> Can a doctor be an antirealist? (Maurizio Ferraris)
……>> Fictional entities, theoretical models and figurative truth (Manuel García-Carpintero)
……>> Are Gender and Race Social Constructs? Some Arguments for and Against (Teresa Marques)
S7 | Room C6.2.49 – Territories/Diagrams of omitted knowledge, organized by Andrej Mircev (Art Academy Osijek, Croatia)
……>> Diagrammatic performance of images (Andrej Mircev)
……>> Rudolph Laban: diagrammatic dance between science and art (Paola Crespi)
S8 | Room C6.2.50 - The many faces of artificial societies: natural, artificial and alternate reality, organized by Porfírio Silva (Institute for Systems and Robotics, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
……>> Between realities (Patrícia Gouveia)
……>> Artificial life and synthetic biology (Rodrigo Ventura)
……>> Humans, machines and fungibility (Porfírio Silva)
S9 | Room C6.2.52 - On the indispensability of visual information in science, organized by Nicola Mößner (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
……>> Our graphic minds (Patrick Maynard)
……>> Visual variety: why do scientists use so many different kinds of figures? (Laura Perini)
……>> Visual information and scientific understanding (Nicola Mößner)
……>> Diagramming: connecting cognitive systems to reason (Valeria Giardino)
S10 | Room C1.3 - New philosophical and scientific issues in the life sciences: the ‘revolution’ of epigenetic in our representation of living beings, organized by Luciano Boi (Centre de Mathématiques, EHESS, Paris, France)
……>> Epigenetic mechanisms in biological systems (Paul-Antoine Miquel)
……>> From genetic to epigenetic and beyond (Luciano Boi)
……>> On the notion of person, from the biological and ethical points of view (Flavio Keller)
Friday, 6th of December | 14:50-16:50
S11 | Room C6.2.48 – Science, Ethics and Bioethics: Myth and Reality, organized by António Barbosa (Centre of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Portugal)
……>> Bioethics and epistemology (António Barbosa)
……>> Therapeutic myths and informed consent (Fernando Martins do Vale)
……>> The binomial vision-brain (Joaquim Monteiro)
……>> Beyond the cultural myopia: the challenge of bioethical imagination (Tatiana Marques)
S12 | Room C6.2.49 - The political philosophy as living art within the knowledge society, organized by Alfreda Cruz (Centre for Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
……>> Thematic presentation of the symposium (Alfreda Cruz)
……>> Territorialisation of public policies (Engrácia Cardim)
……>> Public policies and democracy (Paulo Trigo Pereira) – tbc
……>> Europe for citizens programme, 2014-202 (Maria Ângela Dionísio)
S13 | Room C6.2.50 - The notion of proof, organized by Reinhard Kahle (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
……>> Introduction: the notion of proof (Reinhard Kahle)
……>> Proof checking (Jesse Alama)
……>> Hilbert, intuition, and mathematical proof (Alexei Angelides)
S14 | Room C6.2.52 - Eurhythmy – Complexity and Evolution, organized by J.R. Croca (Centre for Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
……>> The principle of eurhythmy about ten years after its initial formation (José R. Croca)
……>> From Physics to Physis (Rui N. Moreira)
……>> Some comments on the reality of particles and fields (Mário Gatta)
……>> Localisation and globalisation in physics: an approach with coherence (A. Rica da Silva)
……>> Language and reality (Ricardo Salomão Lopes)
S15 | Room C1.3 - Epistemic dynamics and philosophy of science, organized by José Francisco Quesada Moreno (GILLIUS, University of Seville, Spain)
……>> Logic and philosophy of science: dynamic epistemic logic (Ángel Nepomuceno-Fernández & Fernando Soler-Toscano)
……>> A Dynamic Epistemic Approach to Deductive, Default and Abductive Reasoning (Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada)
……>> Knowledge and Language (Francisco José Salguero-Lamillar)
……>> DEL in Language Technologies and Knowledge Management (José Francisco Quesada Moreno)
