The conference will be livestreamed. To see the livestream, please use the below links.
Streaming page for the Small Hall, Main Building
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8:00 – 8:50 REGISTRATION
8:50 - 9.00 WELCOME Kaj Nordlund and the organizing committee
MORNING SESSION Main Building, Small Hall F4050
Chair: Avril Styrman
9.00 – 9.40 Sami Pihlström
"How We Think": Naturalizing the Transcendental Method
9.40 – 10.20 Inkeri Koskinen
Analysing concepts in philosophy of science: a defence of methodological pluralism
COFFEE
10.40 – 11.30 KEYNOTE Ilkka Niiniluoto
Progress in Philosophy
11.30 – 12.10 Tina Firing
How to be an optimist about philosophical progress
LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION Main Building, Small Hall F4050
Chair: Valdi Ingthorsson
13.20 – 14.10 KEYNOTE Ron Chrisley
Method and creativity: Toward AI tools for constructively divergent thinking
14.10 – 14.50 Indrė Žliobaitė
AI as a measurement tool in science?
14.50 - 15.30 Tuukka Tanninen
Formal Methods in Philosophy: Some Ideas from Hintikka
COFFEE
15.50 - 17.55 PARALLEL SESSIONS
| Main Building Small Hall F4050 Chair: Paavo Pylkkänen |
Main Building Karolina Eskelin U3032 Chair: Inkeri Koskinen |
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| 15.50 - 16.15 | Elena Irrera Epistemic solidarity and the role of experts and non-experts in the elaboration of public policies: A Philosophical-political approach |
Anne-Marie McCallion Making Feminist Progress: Autoethnography as “women’s” philosophy |
| 16.15 - 16.40 | Jani Hakkarainen Philosophy as World View Study |
Helena Siipi & Susanne Uusitalo Research ethics for applied ethics |
| 16.40 - 17.05 | Eetu Sipilä Tools for Thinking: An Overview of Methods of Philosophy |
Onerva Kiianlinna Aesthetics: philosophical and empirical |
| 17.05 - 17.30 | Urte Laukaityte The Varieties of Philosophical Approaches: Analytic, Continental, and Synthetic |
B.V.E. Hyde Philosophy is Better When It’s Diverse |
| 17.30 - 17.55 | Marc Andree Weber Appeals to Common Sense in Contemporary Philosophy |
Francesco Testini Conceptual moral progress |
18.15 - 20.00 UNIVERSITY RECEPTION, Main Building, Christina U2085
MORNING SESSION Main Building, Small Hall F4050
Chair: Alexander Carruth
9.00 – 9.40 Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila
Implications of Nina Emery’s Naturalist Metaphysics
9.40 – 10.30 KEYNOTE Nina Emery
Two Types of Naturalism in Metaphysics of Science
COFFEE
10.50 – 11.30 Valdi Ingthorsson
Convergence Towards the Truth about Truth: A Case Study
11.30 – 12.20 KEYNOTE Andrew Brenner
The Role of Simplicity in Metaphysics
LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION Main Building, Small Hall F4050
Chair: Tuukka Tanninen
13.40 – 14.20 Avril Styrman
The Classical Method of Science in Metaphysics: An Object-Based Correspondence Theory of Truth as an Informal Axiomatic System
14.20 – 15.00 Tuomo Suntola
On the evolution of theories in physics and cosmology
15.00 - 15.40 Michal Křížek
Should philosophers rely on the epistemic authority of the principle of relativity?
COFFEE
16.00 -17.40 PARALLEL SESSIONS
| Main Building, Small Hall F4050 Chair: Ilkka Pättiniemi |
Main Building, Studium 1 F3020 Chair: Anssi Korhonen |
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| 16.00-16.25 | Mousa Mohammadian Theoretical Virtues of Scientific Theories in Metaphysical Theorizing |
Annika Kanckos Survey of ontological proofs as a catalyst for AI and proof theory |
| 16.25 - 16.50 | Ray Pedersen Everettian quantum mechanics and the problem of ontological extravagance |
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen Methodologism and functionalism as progressive philosophies |
| 16.50 - 17.15 | Lauri Snellman The Scientific Revolution as a debate of world-views |
Uzien Awret Naturalizing the Mind and the Ignorance Hypothesis |
| 17.15 - 17.40 | Sami Tayub Epistemic Modality: Accounting for the Metaphysical Underdetermination of Science |
Bendik Berntsen-Øybø Why do we evaluate moral theories differently? — Is persistent disagreement on moral theory due to disagreement on criteria and data? |
19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER at Restaurant Rioni Kasarmikatu 25, 00130 Helsinki
MORNING SESSION Metsätalo, Sali 1, Unioninkatu 40, 00170 Helsinki
Chair: TBA
9.00 – 9.40 Ilmari Hirvonen, Petri Turunen, and Ilkka Pättiniemi
How Philosophy Can Make Useful Progress
9.40 – 10.20 Paavo Pylkkänen
Dialogue to the rescue: Bohm’s take on the Bohr-Einstein debate
COFFEE
10.40 – 11.30 KEYNOTE Gerhard Schurz
Inductive Metaphysics and its Abductive Methodology
11.30 – 12.10 Lorenzo Casini
High-level Causation and Causal Inference
LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION Metsätalo, Sali 1, Unioninkatu 40, 00170 Helsinki
Chair: Polaris Koi
13.20 – 14.00 Tony Ross-Hellauer
Reframing Peer Review: Bias, Reflexivity, Quality
14.00 – 14.25 Shad Gilbert
Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism Through Transparadigmatic Reconceptualization
14.25 - 14.50 Andreas Fjellstad
When fiction leads to truth: the status of derivations in axiomatic systems
14.50 - 15.15 Steven S. Gouveia
Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Methodological Analysis
COFFEE
CONCLUDING SESSION
Chair: Avril Styrman
15.35 - 16.00 Octavio Andres Garcia Aguilar
History and progress: a functional account of philosophical progress
16.00 - 16.50 KEYNOTE Finnur Dellsén
Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy?
16.50 - 17.50 PANEL DISCUSSION
18.00 Drinks at Thirsty Scholar Fabianinkatu 37 00170 Helsinki