TINT - Seminar Archive

Philosophy of Science (POS) Seminar Archive

	Autumn 2011
	19.9.2011(Mon 12-14: U40 room A110) Francois Claveau & Luis Mireles Flores Semantic analysis of causal generalizations in policy-oriented social sciences 26.9.2011 (Mon 12-14: U40 room A110) KLM Robustness analysis disclaimer - please read the manual before using 24.10.2011 (Mon 12-14: U40 room A110) Rogier De Langhe The pragmatics of explanation 31.10.2011(Mon 12-14: U40 room A217) Bradley Turner Network analysis as a rising challenge to economics 7.11.2011 (Mon 12-14: U40 room A217) Petri Ylikoski and Emrah Aydinonat Epistemic Import of Abstract Models 21.11.2011 (Mon 12-14: U40 room A217) Jaakko Kuorikoski How to be a humean interventionist 28.11.2011 (Mon 12-14: U40 room A217) Saana Jukola Commercialization of research and Helen Longino's criteria for objective communities 5.12.2011 (Mon 12-14: U40 room A217) Derek Turner The Meaning of 'Fossil' and the Incompleteness of the Fossil Record 12.12.2011 (Mon 12-14: U40 room A217) Mikael Melan Acting according to mechanisms
	Spring 2011
	31.1.2011 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Aki Lehtinen The revealed preference interpretation of pay-offs in games 7.2.2011 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Markus Pantsar Empirical study and the philosophy of mathematics 21.2.2011 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Ville Aarnio Credence Pooling via Geometric Aggregation of Betting Ratios 28.2.2011 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Till Gruene-Yanoff EGT, Mechanisms and Learning Dynamics 4.4.2011 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Peter Gärdenfors and Frank Zenker Theory Change as Dimensional Change 30.5.2011 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A110) Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers Two kinds of modelers: The Lotka-Volterra model revisited
	Autumn 2010
	20.9.2010 (Mon 14-16: U37 seminar room 2) Samuli Pöyhönen Natural kinds with extended mechanisms 4.10.2010 (Mon 14-16: U37 seminar room 2) Petri Ylikoski Micro, macro, and mechanisms 11.10.2010 (Mon 14-16: U37 seminar room 2) Jani Raerinne Multiple realizability and biological laws 18.10.2010 (Mon 14-16: U37 seminar room 2) Anna-Mari Rusanen An Information-Semantic Account of Scientific Models 25.10.2010 (Mon 14-16: U37 seminar room 2) Veli-Pekka Parkkinen (Jyväskylä) Genetic causation and mechanism explanation 1.11.2010 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Uskali Mäki Vaihingerian Realism 8.11.2010 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Aki Lehtinen Robustness Analysis and Indirect Confirmation 15.11.2010 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Tuukka Kaidesoja DBO theory of action and distributed cognition 22.11.2010 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Saana Jukola (Jyväskylä) Objectivity of science and the scientific community 29.11.2010 (Mon 14-16: U40 room A217) Inkeri Koskinen Critical subjects 13.12.2010 (Mon 14-16: TBA) Tiina Käkelä-Puumala (Helsinki) "There is money everywhere": representation, authority, and the money form in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
	Spring 2010
	22.1.2010 (Fri 10-12; U40 lecture room 9) Caterina Marchionni: Playing (with) Networks: How Economists Explain 8.2.2010 (Mon 14-16; U40 room A110) Tuomas Pernu: Causal overdetermination 15.2.2010 (Mon 14-16; U40 room A110) Tomi Kokkonen: On explaining altruistic behaviour 22.2.2010 (Mon 14-16; U40 room A110) Marco Stimolo: Individual agent's identification and norm-based behaviour 1.3.2010 (Mon 14-16; U40 room A110) Jaakko Kuorikoski & Samuli Pöyhönen: Human Kinds and the Feedback Mechanisms of Social Reality 8.3.2010 (Mon 14-16; U40 room A110) Till Grüne-Yanoff: Models as Product of Interdisciplinary Exchange: Results from the History of Evolutionary Game Theory 29.3.2010 (Mon 14-16; U40 room A110) Uskali Mäki: Market rhetoric and the market of rhetoric 12.4.2010 (Mon 14-16; Main building, lecture room 14) Adrian Walsh Against Virtue Parsimony: An Imperfectionist Defence of the Role of Partial-but-Virtuous Agents in the Good Society 26.4.2010 (Mon 14-16; Main building, lecture room 14) Hannu Vartiainen: Are economists to blame for the financial crisis? 10.5.2010 (Mon 14-16; U40 room A110) Diego Rios: A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Baldwin Effect 17.5.2010 (Mon 14-16; U40 room A110) Petri Ylikoski: Agent-based Simulation and Understanding (in Sociology) 24.5.2010 (Mon 14-16; Main building, lecture room 14) Geoff Hodgson: Economics, sociology and the prospects for a unified social science 7.6.2010 (Mon 14-16) Philip Mirowski Has the Modern Regime of Commercialization Harmed Science?
	Autumn 2009
	21.9.09 (mon 14-16; U40 (Metsätalo), A110) Jaakko Kuorikoski: Society by numbers 5.10.09 (mon 14-16; U40 (Metsätalo), A110) Anna-Mari Rusanen: Models as information carrying artifacts 12.10.09 (mon 14-16; U40 (Metsätalo), A110) Susana Graca: Explaining a lot with a little: the ambition of the economics of the performing arts 19.10.09 (mon 14-16; U40 (Metsätalo), A110) Alessanrdo Lanteri: Lost in Aversion: Loss Aversion, the Endowment Effect, and (Little) Realisticness 26.10.09 (mon 14-16; U40 (Metsätalo), A110) Jani Raerinne: Sandra Mitchell and Marc Lange on Biological Laws: A Critique 2.11.09 (mon 14-16; U40, lecture room 31 (C505)) Till Grüne-Yanoff: Welfare Notions of Libertarian Paternalism 9.11.09 (mon 14-16; U40, lecture room 31 (C505)) Session on "Evolution and the human sciences" 16.11.09 (mon 14-16; U40, lecture room 31 (C505)) Inkeri Koskinen Seemingly Similar Beliefs; Epistemic Relativism in Practice 23.11.09 (mon 14-16; U40, lecture room 31 (C505)) Tomi Kokkonen: Psychological innateness and evolutionary explanations of human behavior 30.11.09 (mon 14-16; U40, lecture room 31 (C505)) Lukasz Hardt: An inquiry into the explanatory power of transaction cost economics 7.12.09 (mon 14-16; U40, lecture room 31 (C505)) Samuli Pöyhönen: Explanations or grammatical errors? The wittgensteinian critique of cognitive neuroscience 14.12.09 (mon 14-16; U40, lecture room 31 (C505)) Aki Lehtinen: Four kinds of "As if" -claims
	Spring 2009
	26.1.09 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) N. Emrah Aydinonat: Credible worlds 2.2.09 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Caterina Marchionni: The ultimate/proximate distinction in recent accounts of human cooperation (written with Jack Vromen) 16.2.09 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Jaakko Kuorikoski: Emergence, simulation and the sense of understanding 23.2.09 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Uskali Mäki: The truth of false idealizations in modeling 23.3.09 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 303) Martin Kusch (HCAS/Cambridge): Hacking's historical epistemology 30.3.09 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 303) Jani Raerinne: Concepts of Stability in the Biological Sciences 23.4.09 (thu 16-18; S20R, k114) José Noguera and Lars Udéhn What is the issue with methodological individualism? 4.5.09 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Luis Mireles Flores: On the practical relevance of causal claims 11.5.09 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Bart Engelen: When idealization goes too far
	Autumn 2008
	22.9.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) N. Emrah Aydinonat: How does the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem survive despite its "poor" empirical performance? 29.9.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Aki Lehtinen: A Farewell to Arrow's Theorem 6.10.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Jaakko Kuorikoski: Contrastive Explanation, Indeterminism and Heterogeneity 13.10.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Petri Ylikoski: Social Mechanisms and explanatory relevance 27.10.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Anna-Mari Rusanen: Variation in Novice Philosophical Intuitions and Its Relevance to Analytic Philosophy – a Critique of Experimental Philosophy 3.11 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Robert C. Richardson: Problems with Evolutionary Psychology 17.11 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Jani Raerinne: Robustness and Functions of False Models of Mechanisms 24.11 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Uskali Mäki: Scientific Realism and Austrian explanation 1.12 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Raul Hakli & Pekka Mäkelä: Mapping the Study of Collective Intentionality 8.12 Cancelled 15.12 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Inkeri Koskinen: "Culture" as a contested analytical tool
	Spring 2008
	28.1.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Jaakko Kuorikoski: Varieties of modularity for causal and constitutive explanations 11.2.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Uskali Mäki: Models and Locus of Their Truth 18.2.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244). Jani Raerinne: On the plausibility of arguments against laws in biology 10.3.08 Credible worlds workshop 17.3.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Michiru Nagatsu: Rational choice theory in the social sciences: unifier or polarizer? 31.3.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Till Gruene-Yanoff: Old Wine In New Wineskins: How Libertarian Paternalism's Welfare Concepts Undermine Its Claim To Liberalism 7.4.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Hanna Kokko: Which sex does what, and why? Sex role evolution and the consequences of omitting feedback from models 21.4.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Samuli Pöyhönen: Carving social reality by its joints.The theory of natural kinds and classifications in the human sciences 28.4.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Panu Raatikainen: Structural realism and ramsification 26.5.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Tomi Kokkonen: Human Altruism from the Evolutionary Point of View 9.6.08 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr 244) Till Grune-Yanoff: Evolutionary Game Theory: Natural Selection Implies Interpersonal Comparisons
	Autumn 2007
	13.8.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, lr 222) Till Grüne-Yanoff: Inference from models 20.8.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, lr 222) Seminar discussion on three papers by Uskali Mäki: "Realism and the nature of theory: A lesson from J.H. von Thünen for economists and geographers", Environment and Planning A, 36 (2004), 1719-1736. "Remarks on models and their truth", Storia del Pensiero Economico, 3 (1/2006), 7-19. "Models are experiments, experiments are models", Journal of Economic Methodology, 12 (2005), 303-315. 21.9.07 (Friday) Mini Workshop with Richard Whitley at HSE 15.10.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, lr 222) Clemens Hirsch: An Institutionalist Explanatory Paradigm? Toward closer interdisciplinary collaboration in institutionalist theorizing 22.10.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, lr 222) Michiru Nagatsu: Measuring the Mind: A Critique of Davidson's Conceptual Demarcation of Science 29.10.07 (mon 14-16; S20R, K115. NEW PLACE, in Minerva below the Olivia-cafeteria) Antti Saaristo: On the Ontology of Collective Intentionality: A Constructivist Perspective 12.11.07 (mon 14-16; S20R, K115) Anna-Mari Rusanen: Marr levels 19.11.07 No session 26.11.07 (mon 14-16; S20R, K114) Till Grüne-Yanoff: 'To the Beasts and Back: How Economists Reacquired Game Theory After Its Biological Metamorphosis' Comments by Hannu Vartiainen (Turku School of Economics and Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation) 3.12.07 (mon 14-14; S20R, K 115) Fredrik Hansen (Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute): Formalization and Bounded Rationality: From an Ontological Point of View 17.12.07 (mon 14-14; S20R, K 115) Uskali Mäki: My philosophy of economics: Realistic realism about unrealistic models
	Spring 2007
	22.1.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen): Saving Truth for Economics 5.2.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Uskali Mäki: Tints of TINT, or: Shaping the shades 12.2.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Petri Ylikoski: Illusions in Scientific Understanding 19.2.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Seminar discussion on George Akerlof: The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics 26.2.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Seminar discussion on Camerer, Loewenstein, Prelec: Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics 5.3.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) (notice new date) Tarja Knuuttila: Model-Based Understanding? An Objectual Approach to Scientific Understanding 12.3.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Aku Visala: What kind of SCIENCE is the cognitive SCIENCE of religion? 19.3.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Aki Lehtinen & Jaakko Kuorikoski: Robustness 2.4.07 (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Päivi Oinas & Caterina Marchionni: Explanations of spatial clusters: plurality, interdisciplinarity and theoretical progress 16.4.07 (mon possibly 13-16; S20A, sr244) Julkaisemisiltapäivä - Discussion on journals and publishing 23.4.07 (mon 14 -16: S20A. sr244) Levins and models in biology –workshop 14.5.07 mon 14 -16: S20A. sr244) Jaakko Kuorikoski: Statistical: Explanation and Causal Heterogeneity 21.5.07 (mon 14 -16: S20A. sr244) Seminar discussion on Mark Peacock: The Conceptual Construction of Altruism: Ernst Fehr’s Experimental Approach to Human Conduct (PoSS 2007) 28.5.07 (mon 14 -16: S20A. sr244) Erik Angner: (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Is it Possible to Measure Happiness? Yes. 4.6.07 No session 11.6.07 (mon 14 -16: S20A. sr244) Petri Ylikoski & Jaakko Kuorikoski: Dissecting explanatory power
	Autumn 2006
	09.10. (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Jaakko Kuorikoski & Aki Lehtinen: Computation and Simulation in Economics 27.10 (fri 14-16, S20A, sr244) Tarja Knuuttila: In Praise of Purposeful 'Misrepresentation': Toward a Productive Understanding of Models 20.11. (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Anna-Mari Rusanen: Computation in cognitive Science 27.11. (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Päivi Oinas & Caterina Marchionni: The elusive theory of spatial clustering: reconstruction and reorientation in contrastive terms 04.12. (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Petri Ylikoski: Understanding in Explanation 11.12. (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Jaakko Kuorikoski: Decomposability, modularity and the concept of understanding 18.12. (mon 14-16; S20A, sr244) Tomi Kokkonen: Altruism [Current Schedule]