“Scientific Models and Scientific Inference”, 7-11 July 2021
The final workshop of the ERC project “Making Scientific Inferences More Objective” brings together the researchers who have worked on the project over the past five years, and joins forces with the PRIN project “From Models to Decisions”.
Location: Casa della Gioia, Via Zampori, 23, 21010 Castelveccana (VA)
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch and Welcome |
| 15:00 – 16:15 | Keynote I: Gustavo Cevolani (IMT Lucca) Confirmation and Truthlikeness |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Session 1: Medicine Federico Boem, Pandemic: Proximate and Ultimate Causes Saul Perez Gonzalez, From Population to Individual: evidence of mechanisms and decision-making in the clinical setting |
| 18:00 — | Aperitivi and Dinner |
Thursday, 8 July 2021
| 09:15 – 10:45 | Session 2: Reverse Inference in Neuroscience Fabrizio Calzavarini, Abductive Reasoning in Cognitive Science: weak and strong reverse inference Davide Coraci, Reverse Inference, Bayesian Confirmation and Prediction in Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 10:45 — 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Discussion Panel (Bayesian Brain): Stephan Hartmann, Vincenzo Crupi, Gustavo Cevolani, Fabrizio Calzavarini |
| 12:15 – 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Afternoon | Excursion (Lake) |
| Evening | Dinner |
Friday, 9 July 2020
| 09:15 – 10:45 | Keynote II: Stephan Hartmann Measuring Coherence | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Session 3: Logic and Mathematics Caterina Sisti, Ramsey’s Test: a unified account of conditionals Michele Lubrano, Mathematical Proofs: two kinds of unification | |
| 12:45 – 14:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:30 — 16:00 | Session 4: Probabilistic Inference Vincenzo Crupi, TBA Jan Sprenger, Severity in Bayesian Hypothesis Testing | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Session 5: Social Science Noah Van Dongen, A Perspective on Explanation Construction in the Social Sciences Folco Panizza, How Conformity can Lead to Polarised Social Behaviour | |
| 18:00 — | Aperitivi and Dinner |
Saturday, 10 July 2021
| 09:15 – 10:45 | Session 6: Scientific Crisis: Mattia Andreoletti, Genuine vs Bogus Scientific Controversies Michal Sikorski, Is Forensic Science in Crisis? |
| 10:45 — 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Special Session on Statistical Inference in Psychology and Neuroscience: Jan Sprenger, Noah Van Dongen |
| 12:15 – 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Afternoon | Excursion (Mountains) |
| Evening | Dinner |
Sunday, 11 July 2021
| 09:30 — 10:45 | Session 7: Miscellaneous: Samuele Iaquinto, Credible Futures Francesco Nappo, Materialism about Analogue Simulations |
| 10:45 — 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 — 12:45 | Closing Discussion |
| 12:45 | Lunch and Farewell |
Venue
The workshop will take place in the following venue overlooking Lago Maggiore:
Casa della Gioia
Via Zampori Fratelli, 23
21010 Castelveccana (VA)
There is very limited space for staying in the villa itself, but there are several places in the vicinity where participants can stay.
The venue is close to the local train station of Caldè (15′ walk) and easily reachable even if accommodation is booked elsewhere.
Travel time by train from Milano (Porta Garibaldi) to Caldè is about 1:30 hours and from the Malpensa airport ca. 1:30-2 hours. Coming from Turin it is necessary to change in Rho Fiera or Milan. Dependent on your travel schedule it can also be convienent to take a local bus for the last kilometers. Check https://www.trenitalia.com/ or your preferred integrated train/bus travel planner.
Organizers
For further inquiries, please contact:
Jan Sprenger (jan.sprenger@unito.it)
Michele Lubrano (michele.lubrano@unito.it)
Acknowledgements
The workshop is organized by the Center for Logic, Language and Cognition (LLC) and the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. It is funded by ERC Starting Investigator Grant No. 640638, “Making Scientific Inferences More Objective”, directed by Jan Sprenger (Turin), and it’s the final scientific event of that research project.
