Rome, Villa Mirafiori – Via Carlo Fea, 2
11-13 September 2014, Room XII

    Thursday 11 September 2014

• 10:00-10:10 Opening: Stefano Petrucciani – head Department of Philosophy
• 10:10-11:10 James Ladyman (University of Bristol), Revisiting the Semantic Approach
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• 11:30-12:30 Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia), Scientific Models Are Distributed and Never Abstract
  Chairman: Thomas Nickles
• 15:00-16:00 Thomas Nickles
• 16:00-17:00 Carlo Cellucci (Sapienza University of Rome), Models of Science and Models in Science
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• 17:20-18:20 Thomas Nickles (University of Nevada – Reno), Toward a Frontier Theory of Inquiry
  Chairman: Emily Grosholz
  
  20:30 Social Dinner
  
  Friday 12 September
• 10:30-11:30 Fabio Sterpetti (Sapienza University of Rome), Scientific Realism, the Semantic View of Theories and Evolutionary Biology
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• 11:50-12:50 Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds), Models, Idealisations, and Realist Commitments
  Chairman: Lorenzo Magnani
• 15:30-16:30 Raffaella Campaner (University of Bologne), Representing, Explaining and Intervening: On Modeling Disorders
• 16:30-17:30 Emily Grosholz (Penn State University), Solar System, Galaxy, Cosmos: How Models Work in Astronomy
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• 17:50-18:50 Richard Dawid (University of Vienna), Modelling Scientific Confirmation
  Chairman: Dag Prawitz 
  
  Saturday 13 September 2014
• 09:40-10:40 Sorin Bangu (University of Bergen), Wigner’s Puzzle: Unreasonably Effective?
• 10:40-11:40 Cesare Cozzo (Sapienza University of Rome), Dummett on Inference
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• 12:00-13:00 Dag Prawitz (Stockholm University), Deductive Inference and Models in Sciences
• Chairman: Carlo Cellucci