John Symons & Jack K. Horner

(University of Kansas)

 

"Software engineering standards and philosophy of science: Models, high-risk decision making, and epistemic warrants"

 

Abstract: This talk explores the kinds of scientific models that inform public policy debates around pandemics and climate change. One understudied aspect of these endeavors is the role of scientific software. What standards should we apply to the engineering of such software? What levels of error and reliability can we tolerate? We focus on the recent ICL modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic as a useful case study for exploring these questions.


Draft paper available here
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To register and receive the link to join the webinar (Zoom), please send an e-mail to cfculcomunica@fc.ul.pt.

 

Org.: João Cordovil (CFCUL/GI2) & Silvia Di Marco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Mechanism, Reduction and Emergence in Physics, Chemistry and Biology

 

 

Devido às perturbações causadas pela Covid-19, lamentamos anunciar que a Conferência "Novo Mecanismo, Redução e Emergência em Física, Química e Biologia", planeada para 15 e 16 de setembro de 2020, foi adiada.

Embora seja ainda impossível indicar, com precisão, uma data alternativa, envidaremos esforços para que a realização da Conferência venha a ser junho de 2021.

Abriremos uma nova Call para submissão de Abstracts e forneceremos informações mais detalhadas no devido tempo.

 

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Plano de Contingência

 

Retoma Gradual de Actividades Presenciais

 

O CFCUL, em articulação com a Direcção da FCUL, informa que as medidas e recomendações que comunicámos no passado dia 05-06-2020 se mantêm até ao fim do mês de Junho.

 

 

Epistemology Reading Group


 

Sessões Presenciais

- Jan. 8: Discussion of Dretske's 'If you can't make one you don't know how it works'


- Jan. 15: Discussion of Millikan's 'Biosemantics'


- Jan. 23 & Feb. 5: Discussion of Ryder's 'Problems of representation II: naturalizing content'


- Feb. 12: Discussion of Simion's 'Knowledge-first functionalism'


- Feb. 19: Discussion of Dorst's 'Abominable KK failures'


- Feb. 26: Discussion of Stalnaker's 'Luminosity and the KK thesis'


- Mar. 4: Discussion of Dorr, Goodman and Hawthorne's 'Knowing against the odds'

 

Webinars


- Mar. 11: Discussion of Goodman and Salow's 'Taking a chance on KK'


- Mar. 18: Discussion of Stalnaker's 'On Logics of knowledge and belief'


- Mar. 25: Discussion of Yalcin's 'Belief as question-sensitive'


- Apr. 1: Discussion of Yablo's *Aboutness*, chs. 2-3


- Apr. 8: Discussion of Yablo's *Aboutness*, ch. 7


- Apr. 15: Discussion of Hoek's 'Minimal rationality and the web of questions'


- Apr. 22: Discussion of Stalnaker's 'Contextualism and the logic of knowledge'


- Apr. 29: Discussion of Jago's 'The Problem of Rational Knowledge'


- May 6: Discussion of Jago's 'Hyperintensional Propositions'


- May 13: Discussion of Greco's ' A Puzzle About Epistemic Akrasia'


- May 20: Discussion of Kearl's 'Epistemic Akrasia and Higher-Order Beliefs'


- May 27: 'Fragmentation and Singular Propositions' - Talk by Robert Stalnaker (MIT)

 

 

Org.: Bruno Jacinto (CFCUL, GI1) e Domingos Faria (LanCog)

 

 

 

 

Reading Group on Digital Ontology

 

ADIADO sem data ainda prevista

Floridi, L. (2011) “Against digital ontology”, in: The Philosophy of Information, OUP

The group will meet every two weeks (always on Wednesdays, same room, same time, at 14:30) to discuss books and articles related to topics such as digital philosophy, the analogical/digital nature of the world and physical computation. Org.: Lorenzo Baravalle (CFCUL, GI2).

 

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"Il ruolo della matematica nell'ideale aristotelico di conoscenza scientifica"

In Lolli, G. & Tortoriello, F. S. (eds.), L’arte di pensare. Matematica e filosofia, pp. 1-39

 

UTET Università


 

Life and Evolution. Latin American Essays on the History and Philosophy of Biology

Springer, Cham

Print ISBN 978-3-030-39588-9

Online ISBN 978-3-030-39589-6

 

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Gil Santos

 

"Integrated-structure emergence and its mechanistic explanation"


Synthese. 2020

 

DOI 10.1007/s11229-020-02594-3

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"Cartes, objets, installations : le problème de l’art dans la pensée et dans la pratique de Fernand Deligny"

in La part de l´oeil

 


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Lorenzo Baravalle

 

Not by Memes Alone (book review)

Springer, Acta Biotheoretica, 28 Janeiro 2020

 

DOI: 10.1007/s10441-019-09374-8


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Alexander Gerner

 

Towards the Techno-Social Uncanny

Revista Portuguesa De Filosofia 75, no. 4 (2019): 2171–2206

 

DOI:10.17990/rpf/2019_75_4_2171



Catarina Pombo Nabais

 

O pensamento como criação: Filosofia, Arte e Ciência. O desafio de Deleuze e Guattari

Revista Portuguesa De Filosofia 75, no. 4 (2019): 2415–38

 

DOI: 10.17990/RPF/2019_75_4_2415



Olga Pombo

 

Razão, Calculo e Computação. Três raízes da concepção computacional da razão em Leibniz

in Jose Carlos Espirito Santo (ed), Alan Turing. Cientista Universal, Braga: University of Minho editor, 2019, pp. 119-135

ISBN impresso 978-989-8974-02-0
ISBN digital 978-989-8974-03-7

DOI: 10.21814/uminho.ed.5

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Olga Pombo

 

Modelos. Um lugar quase imperceptível da relação ciência e arte

Revista Portuguesa De Filosofia 75, no. 4 (2019): 2415–38

 

DOI: 10.17990/RPF/2019_75_4_2155



Olga Pombo, Catarina Pombo Nabais e Sara Fuentes (Org.)

 

CorpoIMAGEM Representações do Corpo na Ciência e na Arte

Fim de Século; 2019;

 

ISBN 978-972-754-285-7



Alexander Gerner


"“The Origin of the New World”. On Elena Dorfman’s Deus (S)ex-Machina"

In: J. Loh and M. Coeckelbergh (eds.), Feminist Philosophy of Technology, Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie 2, p.145-166, 2019.


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Hernandez, I. & Davide Vecchi


Collective individuation and emergence of organismality


Humanities Journal of Valparaiso 2019, 14:335-362

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