Models and Fiction
Thursday 12 March - Friday 13 March 2009
Lakatos Building, LSE, Aldwych WC2
in conjunction with the LSE
Map of venue showing building 'T'
PROGRAMME
Thursday 12 March
9:30 – 10:00 Coffee
10:00 – 10:30
Welcome - Barry C Smith (Institute of Philosophy)
Overview of the Literature - Roman Frigg (LSE) and Michael Weisberg (Penn State)
10:30 – 11:40 Roman Frigg (LSE) 'Why We Need Fictions to Understand Models'
11:40 – 12:50 Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard) 'Models and Mongrels'
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:10 Adam Toon (Cambridge) 'Models, Fiction and Imagination'
15:10 – 16:20 Arnon Levy (Harvard) 'Idealization, Fiction and Causal Understanding'
16:20 – 16:50 Coffee
16:50 – 18:00 Comment and Discussion - Tim Crane (UCL)
Friday 13 March
9.30 – 10.00 Coffee
10:00 – 11:10 Deena Skolnick Weisberg (Rutgers) 'A Psychologically Realistic Account of Models as Fictions'
11:10 – 12:20 Chris Pincock (Purdue) 'Discerning the Truth in Fiction'
12:20 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:40 Martin Thomson-Jones (Oberlin College) 'Exploring the Little Fictions Approach to Descriptions of Missing Systems'
14:40 – 15:50 Michael Weisberg (Penn State) 'Maths and Fictions'
15:50 – 16:20 Coffee
16:20 – 17:30 Comment and Discussion - Stacie Friend (Heythrop)
17:30 – 18:00 Final Discussion
EMAIL REGISTRATION WITH FEES ON DAY
To register please send your full name in an email with 12-13 MARCH as the subject header, indicating your fees category (see below). Fees, which include teas, will be collected at the conference registration.
Individual IP members & UoL faculty/students* - no charge
Students - £10
Institutional members** & concession - £15
Standard - £25* UoL faculty/students are current staff and students of the departments of Philosophy at KCL, UCL, Bbk, LSE, Heythrop.
** INSTITUTE MEMBERS are Current staff and students of Philosophy at the following Universities.
