HISTORICAL EPISTEMOLOGY

Thursday 10 December - Saturday 12 December 2009 Interdisciplinary conference




HISTORICAL EPISTEMOLOGY



Institute of Philosophy, Leuven University Kard. Mercierplein 2, BE-3000 Leuven, BELGIUM



Participation is free and open to all, but please rsvp to historicalepistemology@gmail.com





Thursday 10 December 14.00-19.00:



14.00 – 14.30:

- Koen Vermeir: ‘Introduction: reflections on historical epistemology’



14.30 – 16.30:

- Ursula Klein ‘Historical Ontology’

- Daniela Monaldi 'Making, probing, and understanding' in the laboratory: the

case of Bose-Einstein Condensation"



16.30 – 17.00: coffee break



17.00 – 19.00:

- Karine Chemla ‘Contextualizing and Historicizing Generality as an

Epistemological Value’

- Emily Grosholz ‘Abstract and Concrete: The Importance of Method in

Population Genetics’



Friday 11 December 10.00-18.30:



10.00 – 13.30:

- Martin Kusch ‘Genealogy, Metrology, Historical Epistemology’

- David Hyder ‘What Are Scientific Norms? Thoughts on the Presuppositions of

Historical Epistemology’

- Theodore Arabatzis ‘The memory of concepts: a subject for historical

epistemology’



13.30 – 15.00: lunch break



15.00 – 18.30:

- Maarten Van Dyck ‘Writing the history of the concept of inertia’

- Cristina Chimisso ‘The life of concepts: Canguilhem’s historical epistemology’

- Friedrich Steinle ‘Concepts and the historicity of epistemology and science’



Saturday 12 December 10.00-13.30:



10.00 – 13.30:

- David Bloor ‘Some observations on the history of experimental psychology at

the University of Cambridge’

- Paul Cortois 'Looking for a Logic of Kinds'

- Jutta Schickore ‘Historical Epistemology and the Recent History of Integrated

HPS’





Abstracts will soon be posted at: http://lipss.wordpress.com/