MS 5 PROGRAM

(University of Helsinki, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40)

THURSDAY 14.6.

14:00 – 15:00Registration / MetsätaloLobby
15:00 – 17:00
Contributed papers I / Room 8
Verification of simulations (Chair Erika Mansnerus)
Frederic Loulergue
On the formal verification of computer simulations
Matt Spencer
The Materiality of Simulation in Computational Physics
Julie Jebeile
Verification & Validation of Computer Simulations: A Philosophical Analysis / Room 9
Scientific representation
(Chair Tarja Knuuttila)
Agnes Bolinska
Towards an Account of Scientific Representation
Axel Gelfert and Jacob Mok
Models, Theory, and Attempted Direct Representation: A Cautionary Tale from Membrane and Cell Biology
Koray Karaca
The modeling features of diagram models
17:00-17:30 Refreshments
17:30 – 18:45 / Room 2
Uskali Mäki: Opening (15 min)
Keynote lecture: Mary Morgan(60 min)
Models as Working Objects in Science
(Chair: Uskali Mäki)
19:15 Rector’s reception / University Main Building, press room
(Fabianinkatu 33)

FRIDAY 15.6.

9:30-10:00 Refreshments
10:00-12:00
Contributed papers II / Room 8
Economic models
(Chair Uskali Mäki)
Stefan Mendritzki
Modelling Trade-offs and Explanatory Pluralism in Economics
Melissa Vergara Fernández and
François Claveau
Separating the Heuristic and Evidential Roles of the DMP Model
Ivan Boldyrev and Alexey Ushakov
Learning how to Change the World: the Role of Performativity in the Philosophy of Modeling / Room 12
Evidence
(Chair Aki Lehtinen)
Erika Mansnerus
Iteration as a way to integrate various sources of evidence in infectious disease models
Ann-Sophie Barwich
Get a whiff of this! Modelling the Mechanism of Primary Odor Recognition
Vincent Ardourel
Discrete mechanics: a good formulation for modelling physical phenomena?
12:00-13.15 Lunch at Piano
(Rauhankatu 15)
13:15 – 15:15
Contributed papers III / Room 8
Mathematical models
(Chair Paul Humphreys)
Davide Rizza
Mathematical redundancy and reduction in economic modeling
Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers
Synthetic Modeling: Material Recombination and Beyond
Tudor Baetu
The Explanatory Role of Mathematical Models in System Biology / Room 12
Explanation and simulation (Chair Johannes Lenhard)
Caterina Marchionni and Petri Ylikoski
Agent-based simulation, bottom-up explanation and methodological individualism
Juan M Durán
Explanation in computer simulation results: towards its conceptualization
Till Gruene-Yanoff
Modelling and How-Possible Explanations
15:15-15:45 Refreshments
15:45 – 17:45
Contributed papers IV / Room 8
Kinds of data
(Chair Petri Ylikoski)
Paul Humphreys
The Epistemological Status of Data from Computed Tomography
Eckhart Arnold
Experiments and Simulations. Do They Fuse?
Anouk Barberousse
Computer simulations and empirical data / Room 12
Idealisation I
(Chair Kevin Hoover)
Armin Schulz
The Heuristic Defence of Idealised Models: A Critical Assessment
Tobias Breidenmoser
Three Kinds of Simplification
Ashley Kennedy
Realism through Idealization: Explanatory Models in Science
17:55 – 18:55 / Room2
Keynote lecture: Rosaria Conte (with Gualia Andrighetto and Mario Paolucci)
When Math Helps (not) the Social Science
(Chair: Aris Spanos)

SATURDAY 16.6.

9:30-10:00 Refreshments
10:00-12:00
Contributed papers V / Room 8
Statistical models
(Chair Jaakko Kuorikoski)
Joel Katzav
Climate modelling and severe testing epistemology
Aris Spanos
Realisticness of Models vs. the Reliability of Inference: Learning from Observational Data
Kevin Hoover
The Role of Hypothesis Testing in the Molding of Econometric Models / Room 12
Idealisation II
(Chair Juha Saatsi)
Raphael van Riel
‘According to the model, p’. Semantic vs. Psychological Aspects in Scientific Modelling
Paul Teller
An artifact of a modeling idealization: The case of higher order vagueness
Roberto Fumagalli
Economic Models and Neuro-Psychological Ontologies: a Challenge from Realisticness
12:00-13:15 Lunch at Sunn (Aleksanterinkatu 26)
13:15 – 15:15
Contributed papers VI / Room 8
Philosophical accounts of models
(Chair Till Grüne-Yanoff)
Juha Saatsi
Models and analogies: a challenge to the ‘partial structure’ account
Marion Vorms
Ernest Nagel’s conception of models: When agents get into the picture of theories / Room 12
Robustness
(Chair Caterina Marchionni)
Johanna Thoma
On the alleged confirmatory value of robustness analysis in economic modeling
Anna Leuschner
Certainty, uncertainty, and robustness in climate modeling
15:15-15:45 Refreshments
15:45 – 17:45
Contributed papers VII / Room 8
Fictions
(Chair Paul Teller)
Aki Lehtinen
Fictional representations for tracking truth
Adam Toon
Models, make-believe, and the indirect fictions view
Anna-Mari Rusanen and Otto Lappi
Modeling Artificial Intelligence: How fictional models explain / Room 12
Simulation
(Chair Anouk Barberousse)
Johannes Lenhard
Simulation, Representation, and Cartography: Compiling a Virtual Atlas
Catherine Stinson
Computational Models as Mechanistic Explanations: From Connectionism to Cognitive Neuroscience
Jaakko Kuorikoski and Samuli Pöyhönen
Understanding non-modular functionality – lessons from genetic algorithms
17:55 – 19:00 / Room 2
Keynote lecture:Tim Benton (60 min)
Models and Knowledge
(Chair: Paul Humphreys)
Uskali Mäki: Closing (5 min)
20:00 Conference dinner at Katsomo (Kasarmikatu 46-48)