Programme and Abstracts

See the detailed programme and abstracts of the Method and Convergence 2025 Conference below.
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Monday, 2 June 2025

8:00 – 8:50 REGISTRATION

8:50 - 9.00 WELCOME Vice rector and the Conference Chair Avril Styrman

MORNING SESSION Main Building,
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,
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

Chair: Paavo Pylkkänen
Main Building

Chair: Inkeri Koskinen
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,
 

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

MORNING SESSION Main Building,
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,
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, 
Chair: Ilkka Pättiniemi
Main Building, 
Chair: Anssi Korhonen
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
Uziel 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 Kasarmikatu 25, 00130 Helsinki
 

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

MORNING SESSION Metsätalo, , Unioninkatu 40, 00170 Helsinki
Chair: Avril Styrman

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, , 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: Valdi Ingthorsson

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