Conjectures and Refutations Inaugural Workshop: Scientific Modelling

We are pleased to announce that the Conjectures and Refutations workshop series will hold its inaugural session on Scientific Modelling, organised by the PhD community in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE.

Models play a central role across the sciences and in philosophy itself, yet fundamental questions remain about how they represent, explain, and produce understanding. This workshop brings together four talks spanning the spectrum from the philosophy of modelling to concrete modelling practices.

Schedule

11:00am–12:00pm Keynote: Roman Frigg (LSE)

12:00pm-1.30pm Lunch

1:30pm–3:00pm Robert Northcott (Birkbeck, University of London), “Modelling, Fragility, and Cherry-Picking” / Response: Vita Kudryavtseva (LSE), followed by Q&A

3:15pm–4:45pm Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna), “The Abstractness of Network Motifs” / Response: Jonathan Coull (LSE), followed by Q&A

5:00pm–6:30pm Emily Sullivan (University of Edinburgh), “Decomposing Machine Learning Models” / Response: Franco Menares-Paredes (LSE), followed by Q&A

6:30pm–7:00pm Reception

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