1st Biennial SPSP — Twente 2007

August 23–25, 2007

The Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice organized its first biennial congress at the campus of the University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Book of Abstracts (PDF)

Call for papers

Please send an abstract of 500 words, and full contact information to Katinka Waelbers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For further information on organisation and registration see our website

Deadline for submission: 1 March 2007.

The Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) aims to bring together a community of scholars that approach topics in the philosophy of science from the perspective of scientific practice. For further details on our objectives, see our mission statement at http://www.gw.utwente.nl/spsp/

The first SPSP biennial conference is intended as a broad agenda-setting forum for scholars who are committed to making detailed and systematic studies of scientific practice without dismissing concerns about truth and rationality, or ignoring contextual and pragmatic factors. We welcome contributions from not only philosophers, but also historians and sociologists of science, pure and applied scientists, and any others with an interest in philosophical questions regarding scientific practice.

In addition to keynote lectures by invited speakers, the conference will feature parallel sessions in which contributed papers will be presented. In this first biennial conference, we are aiming for a broad and diverse programme that will demonstrate the range of already existing work; subsequent conferences may be organised around more focused themes.

We particularly welcome contributions on the following list of interconnected topics; however, other topics are by no means excluded.

Problem-solving and scientific research
The role of models in scientific practice
Instruments in relation to theory and experiment
Computer experiments and simulations
Explanation and understanding in scientific practice
Epistemology, ethics, and theory of action
Values in science, technology and medicine
Methodology in various sciences: similarities and differences
Historical development of scientific practices

Keynotes: Full Papers

Introduction

Philosophy of science has traditionally focused on the relation between scientific theories and the world, at the risk of disregarding scientific practice. In social studies of science and technology, the predominant tendency has been to pay attention to scientific practice and its relation to theories, sometimes wilfully disregarding the world except as a product of social construction. Both approaches have their merits, but they each offer only a limited view, neglecting some essential aspects of science. We advocate a philosophy of scientific practice, based on an analytic framework that takes into consideration theory, practice and the world simultaneously.

Conference Programme

Last updated: August 20, 2007

WEDNESDAY August 22
17.30-19.30			Informal get-together. (Drienerbrught Conference Hotel at the Campus, possibility for early registration)
	THURSDAY August 23
	09.00-10.30	REGISTRATION (Drienerburght Hotel)
	09.30-09.45	Opening by Mieke Boon (Amphi Theatre)
	09.45-10.00	Opening by Henk Zijm, Rector University of Twente (Amphi Theatre)
	10.00-11.00	Hasok Chang: The Philosophical Grammar of Scientific Practice (Amphi Theatre) Chair: Mieke Boon
	11.00-11.30	Coffee – tea (Drienerburght)
	11.30-13.00	Ethics (room A, Drienerburght) Chair: Adam Briggle		Theory choice (room B, Drienerb.) Chair: Isabelle Peschard	Symposium 1 (Amphi Theatre) Down to Earth, Philosophy of the Geosciences Organization: Maarten G. Kleinhans Speakers: Henk W. de Regt Maarten G. Kleinhans Derek Turner Robert Inkpen
	11.30	Clemens Driessen Participation or demarcation? Animal science and animal ethics in action.		Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Practices of mathematization
	12.00	Justus Lentsch Promoting Responsible Science for Advising Public Policy.		Shaul Katzir The choice between explanatory and descriptive theories in photoelectricity and piezoelectricity
	12.30	Hanne Andersen Demarcating misconduct from misinterpretations and mistakes		Frans Birrer "Acceptance" as a notion for understanding the practice of science”
	13.00-14.00	Lunch (Drienerburght) / Meeting Sc. Models Network (on invitation, room G)
	14.00-15.30	Evidence (room A) Chair: Marcel Boumans		Causality (room B) Chair: Tarja Knuuttilla	Symposium 2 (Amphi Theatre) Challenging the Hierarchy of Evidence Organization: Robyn Bluhm Speakers: Robyn Bluhm Kirstin Borgerson Maya Goldenberg<
	14.00	Jacqueline Sullivan Reliability, Validity and The Experimental Process: A Neurobiological Case Study		Damien Fennell Understanding Formal Methods as Models – The Case of Causal Inference
	14.30	Grant Fisher Total evidence and empirical indispensability.		Michael Joffe Causal understanding in biology and economics
	15.00	x		Caterina Marchionni, Jack Vromen Ultimate and proximate explanations of cooperative behaviour.
	15.30-16.00	Coffee – tea (Drienerburght)
	16.00-17.30	Discovery (room A) Chair: Stuart Gluck		Computer experiments (room B) Chair: Philip Brey	Symposium 3 (Amphi Theatre) The Role and Impact of the ‘Philosophy of Science in Practice’ on Designing Approaches to Higher Science Education Organization: Ismo Koponen Agustín Adúriz-Bravo Speakers: Ismo Koponen Agustín Adúriz-Bravo Ana Couló Veli-Matti Vesterinen Ciara Muldoon Maija Akela
	16.00	Sophia Efstathiou Found Science: Founding race categories in the context of biomedical science		Jeff Kochan Computer Simulation as Experimental Method
	16.30	Helen De Cruz Scientific creativity as structured imagination		Johannes Lenhard The Re-Configuration of Bayesianism in Recent Statistical Practice
	17.00	Jarmo Pulkkinen Metaphors and scientific discovery		Stéphanie Ruphy What do we actually learn from virtual worlds?
	17.30-17.45	Coffee – tea (Drienerburght)
	17.45-18.45	Nancy Cartwright: Evidence for Use (Amphi Theatre) Chair: Hasok Chang
	19.15 – 21.30	Visit to Enschede, dinner at own expenses. Bus leaves in front of Drienerburght

FRIDAY August 24
09.00-10.00	Joe Rouse: Articulating the World: Experimental Systems and Conceptual Understanding (Amphi Theatre) Chair: Rachel A. Ankeny
10.15-10.30	Coffee – tea (Drienerburght)
10.30-12.00	Epistemology (room A) Chair: Stuart Gluck	Measurement (room B) Chair: Marcel Boumans	Symposium 4 (Amphi Theatre) How Do Practices Move Knowledge Organization: Rachel A. Ankeny Martina Merz Speakers: Erika Mattila Ed Ramsden Sabina Leonelli
10.30	Sergio F. Martínez What is Cognition? A View From Scientific Practices	Victor Binzberger Practices of stabilizing the understanding of software code
11.00	Sang-Wook Yi Values in action	Peter Rodenburg The Construction of Instruments for Measuring Unemployment
11.30	Isabelle Peschard Ethical Values, Scientific Practice and Virtue Epistemology	Ulrich Krohs The influence of measuring technology on model building in molecular biology
12.00-13.30	Lunch (Drienerburght) / Meeting SPSP-London (Room B)
13.30-15.00	Normativity (room A) Chair: Rachel A. Ankeny	Observation (room B) Chair: Isabelle Peschard	Symposium 5 (Amphi Theatre) Hooking up Models to the World Organization: Aki Lehtinen Uskali Mäki Speakers: Uskali Mäki Till Grüne-Yanoff Tarja Knuuttila Jaakko Kuorikoski Aki Lehtinen
13.30	Erik Weber Procedures and criteria of the IARC Monogaphs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans	Stuart Gluck Data and Phenomena
14.00	Alison Wylie What Knowers Know Well: Standpoint Theory as a Rationale for Collaborative Research Practice in Archaeology	Uljana Feest Re-Reading Hanson: Observations and their Objects
14.30	Torsten Wilholt The Problem of Bias in Scientific Research	Matthew D. Lund What Implications Does Theory-Laden Observation Have For Scientific Practice?
15.00-15.30	Coffee – tea (Drienerburght)
15.30-17.00	Risk (room A) Chair: Katinka Waelbers	Representation (room B) Chair: Fokko-Jan Dijksterhuis	Symposium 6 (Amphi Theatre) Stabilizing Evidence Organization: Marcel Boumans Speakers: Hubertus Nederbragt Harro Maas Marcel Boumans
15.30	Birgitte Wandall How values influence the outcome of risk assesments – the case of trans fatty acids	Marion Vorms Understanding theories in practice: representational and computational aspects
16.00	Susan Hawthorne Embedding of Values in Science: The Case of ADHD Research	Demetris Portides Seeking Representations of Phenomena: Phenomenological Models
16.30	Priya Venkatesan Scientific Practice in the Context of Literary Paradigms	Andrea Woody Attention to Practice: Representation in Molecular Chemistry
17.00-17.30	Coffee – tea (Drienerburght)
17.30-18.30	Mieke Boon: Two Traditions in Scientific Practice (Amphi Theatre) Chair: Marcel Boumans
18.45-19.45	Architecture and art walk over the campus (starts at Drienerburght)
20.00 -	Conference Dinner (Faculty Club)

SATURDAY August 25
09.00-10.30	Techno-science (room A) Chair: Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis	Understanding (room B) Chair: Mieke Boon		Symposium 7 (room C) Social and Political Aspects of the Study of Disease Organization: Julian Reiss David Teira Speakers: David Teira Rachel A. Ankeny Trudy Dehue Julian Reiss
09.00	Christopher Bissell Engineering models: is there a difference?	Petri Ylikoski Social Mechanisms and the Illusion of Depth of Understanding
09.30	Juan B. Bengoetxea Do technoscientific experiments have their own life?	Steffen Ducheyne Stating the “hard problem” of scientific understanding
10.00	Joachim Schummer Evidence-based Philosophy of Science	Kai Eigner The role of analogies for scientific understanding: An example from cognitive science
10.30-10.45	Coffee – tea (Drienerburght)
10.45-11.45	Explanation (room B) Chair: Stuart Gluck		10.30-11.55	Symposium 8 (room C) Science, Social Constructivism and Psychoanalysis: Exploring the Options Organization: Filip Buekens Speakers: Andreas De Block Maarten Boudry Filip Buekens
10.45	Cyrille Imbert Explanation, understanding and opacity
11.15	Hauke Riesch Simple or simplistic? Scientists views on Occam’s razor
11.45-12.00	Break
12.00-13.00	John Dupre: The Abstract Individual in Nature and Society (Amphi Theatre) Chair: Hasok Chang
13.15-14.15	Closing Lunch (Drienerburght)

Conference participants

	Lastname	Firstname	University
1.	Aduriz-Bravo	Agustin	University of Helsinki
2.	Andersen	Hanne	University of Aarhus
3.	Ankeny	Rachel	University of Adelaide
4.	Bengoetxea	Juan B	Spain
5.	Binzberger	Viktor	Technical University of Budapest
6.	Birrer	Frans	Leiden University
7.	Bissell	Christopher	Open University
8.	Bluhm	Robyn	The University of Western Ontario
9.	Boon	Mieke	Twente University
10.	Borgerson	Kirstin	University of Toronto
11.	Boumans	Marcel	University of Amsterdam
12.	Brey	Philip	University of Twente
13.	Briggle	Adam	University of Twente
14.	Cartwright	Nancy	London School of Economics and Political Science
15.	Chang	Hasok	University College London
16.	Coula	Ana	Universidad de Buenos Aires
17.	De Cruz	Helen	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
18.	De Regt	Henk	VU University
19.	Dijksterhuis	Fokko Jan	University of twente
20.	Douglas	Heather	University of Tennessee
21.	Driessen	Clemens	Wageningen UR
22.	Ducheyne	Steffen	Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
23.	Dupre	John	University of Exeter
24.	Efstathiou	Sophia	UCSD
25.	Eigner	Kai	VU Amsterdam
26.	Feest	Uljana	TU Berlin
27.	Fennell	Damien	Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study
28.	Fisher	Grant	University College London
29.	Gluck	Stuart	University of Twente
30.	Goldenberg	Maya	University of Guelph
31.	Hawthorne	Susan	University of Minnesota
32.	Imbert	Cyrille	IHPST
33.	Inkpen	Robert	University of Portsmouth
34.	Joffe	Michael	Imperial College
35.	Jones	Adam
36.	Jones	Bill
37.	Katzir	Shaul	Leo Baeck Institute, London
38.	Kleinhans	Maarten	Universiteit Utrecht
39.	Knuuttilla	Tarja	University of Helsinki
40.	Kochan	Jeff	University of Alberta
41.	Koponen	Ismo	University of Helsinki
42.	Krohs	Ulrich	University of Hamburg
43.	Kumar	Anil	Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
44.	Kuorikoski	Jaakko	University of Helsinki
45.	Lehtinen	Aki	University of Helsinki
46.	Lenhard	Johannes	Bielefeld University
47.	Lentsch	Justus	Institute for Science & Technology Studies (IWT)
48.	Leonelli	Sabina	LSE
49.	Lund	Matthew	Rowan University
50.	Maas	Harro	UVA
51.	Magill	John
52.	Mäki	Uskali	Academy of Finland
53.	Mansaray	Alhaji	Masinaday Foundation
54.	Marchionni	Caterina	Erasmus University of Rotterdam
55.	Mattila	Erika	London School of Economics and Political Science
56.	Merz	Martina	University of Lucerne
57.	Nederbragt	Bert	Department of Pathobiology
58.	Obi	Mark Ifeanyi	The Evangel Mission
59.	Onyenka	Paul
60.	Peschard	Isabelle	University of Twente
61.	Portides	Demetris	University of Cyprus
62.	Pulkkinen	Jarmo	University of Oulu
63.	Ramsden	Edmund	London School of Economics
64.	Reiss	Julian	Complutense University
65.	Riesch	Hauke	University College London
66.	Rodenburg	Peter	University of Amsterdam
67.	Rouse	Joseph	Wesleyan University
68.	Ruphy	Stephanie	Universitea de Provence
69.	Schummer	Joachim	University of Darmstadt
70.	Schwandt	Edgar	University of Twente
71.	Teira	David	UNED
72.	Turner	Derek	Connecticut College
73.	Venkatesan Hays	Priya	Dartmouth College
74.	Vesterinen	Veli-Matti	University of Helsinki
75.	Vorms	Marion	IHPST
76.	Vromen	Jack	Erasmus University
77.	Waelbers	Katinka	University of Twente
78.	Wandall	Birgitte	Royal Institute of Technology
79.	Weber	Erik	Ghent University (UGent)
80.	Wilholt	Torsten	Bielefeld University
81.	Woody	Andrea	University of Washington
82.	Wylie	Alison	University of Washington
83.	YI	Sang-Wook	Hanyang University
84.	Ylikoski	Petri	University of Helsinki

PRACTICAL MATTERS

CONTACT

If you have any questions or concerns during the conference, feel free to contact Johnny Søraker, either in person, by email <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> or mobile phone <+31 (0)618110704>.

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More information can be obtained at the reception of the Drienerburght hotel.

SESSIONS

Talks are 30 minutes, including discussion. We recommend that speakers present for 20 minutes, with 10 minutes remaining for discussion. Please notify Katinka Waelbers as soon as possible if you have any technological requirements beyond laptop (Windows), video projector and whiteboard. Do not sent your presentation files in advance: please use a USB memory stick. You are encouraged to copy your files to the PC during one of the breaks before your talk. It is possible to hook up your laptop, but (in order to save time) this should be reserved for cases in which important formatting might be lost or if the provided software is incompatible.

FOOD AND DRINKS

Please let us know as soon as possible if you have any dietary requirements.

Coffee/Tea/Snacks:

Coffee/Tea will be served free of charge in most breaks. In some breaks, pastries and/or fruit will also be served.

Lunches

Lunch buffets are served in the main hall of Drienerburght hotel. All costs have been covered by your conference fee.

Dinners

Thursday, August 23: There will be a special conference bus to Enschede Thursday evening. The bus will leave the campus at exactly 19.30 hours. At 22.00 hours the bus will be leaving from Enschede (…) to the campus.

Friday, August 24: The main conference dinner will be served in the Faculty club on Friday evening, 19:45. The Faculty Club is a 2 min. walk from the Drienerburght (see map on next page). The cost of the conference dinner has been covered by your fee as well.

Closing lunch

After the closing plenary on Saturday, lunch will be served in the Drienerburght hotel bar.

RECEIPT

If you need a receipt for your registration fee, please notify one of the local organizers, and we will send it to you by mail/email/fax (whichever you prefer) immediately after the conference.

Accomodation

Accomodation has been reserved in the three-star conference hotel the Drienerburght, which is located in the conference centre the Drienerburght, in which the conference takes place. The Drienerburght is centrally located on the campus of the University of Twente. For more information, see Drienerburght.

We recommend that you reserve a room in the Drienerburght through form on the following website: Book room Drienerburght.

You can also book a room in Logica. These rooms are more basic then the rooms in Drienerburght: Book room Logica.

You can indicate on the form for which nights you wish to reserve. If you mention the SPSP conference, you will get a discount.

Please reserve early, so that we can guarantee you a room.

In case you wish to make reservations in another hotel, please visit this link.

Please be advised that the only other hotels within walking distance of the campus are the Best Western Country Hotel De Broeierd and the Parkhotel Enschede. Other hotels are located downtown in the city of Enschede (5-10 min. by car or bus) or in the nearby city of Hengelo (also 5-10 min. by car or bus).

For further questions on accommodation, including special room requests or diet requests for the conference dinner, please mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Our secretary, Petra Bruulsema, will answer your questions.

Travel information

The campus of the University of Twente is located between the cities of Hengelo (pop. 75,000) and Enschede (pop. 150,000). Enschede is considered the cultural capital of the area. From Drienerburght, the downtown area of Enschede is only 10 min. by bus (€1) or taxi (appr. €15). Frequent buses go to both cities, until about 11 PM. Please ask the hotel reception for bus information. They can also order a taxi for you. Travel information can also be found online at www.ns.nl (trains) or www.9292ov.nl (busses and other means of transportation).

If you come to the University of Twente by car or public transportation, please check directions.

If you come to the University of Twente by air:

Take a plane to Schiphol Airport (= Amsterdam Airport), then take a direct train from Schiphol to the city of Hengelo.

Train departures (final destination Enschede) are seven minutes to the hour (there is another train seven minutes to the half hour; you then have to switch in Amersfoort , the train to Hengelo/Enschede is waiting at the other side of the platform). Note that this train does not pass through Amsterdam Central Station and takes a little more than two hours to arrive in Hengelo.

In Hengelo you can take a taxi, a train taxi or a local bus to the University (approx. 10 minutes).
Your final stop is conference centre and conference hotel "Drienerburght" on the campus of the University.

Links:

For your hotel, follow the link to a campus map. The “Drienerburght” is no. 15 on the map.

Information on the University of Twente can be found at http://www.utwente.nl/uk/

To plan your journey by train you can use The Dutch Railway planner.

Invited speakers

Nancy Cartwright (Professor of Philosophy, Chair of CPNSS; London School of Economic, UK)
Hasok Chang (Professor History and Philosophy of the Physical Sciences; University College London, UK)
John Dupré (Director of Egenis/Professor of Philosophy of Science Exeter University, UK)
Joseph Rouse (Hedding Professor of Moral Science, Chair Science in Society; Wesleyan University, USA)