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Schedule Sci|Phi|Han 2025

FRIDAY (25.07)

09:45 Coffee and Registration
10:15 Introduction
10:30 Keynote Speaker: Edoardo Peruzzi
Scientific Methods in the History and Philosophy of Economics
11:30 Coffee Break
Meta-Reflection
(Chair: tba)
Meta-Reflection
(Chair: tba)
11:45 Filippos Georgios Sarakis
Reflections on the Scientific Enterprise
Gabriel Bickerstaff
Principle of Non-Contradiction as a Modality Governing Natural Science
12:15 Nike Frings
The Demarcation Problem in Philosophy: Is Philosophy a Pseudoscience?
Luka Marinković
Empirical Localization and the Shape of Scientific Progress
12:45 Alireza Sadeghi
The Impacts of Socio-Political Structures on Public Trust in Science: Rethinking Science Communication Outside the Box
Adriano Aguado Nocilla
Kuhn’s Exemplars as a Bridge Between Scientific and Philosophical Communities: A Defense of Methodological Naturalism
13:15 Lunch Break
14:45 Keynote Speaker: Dana Mahr
Epistemic Authority, Digital Health Platforms, and Participatory Knowledge
15:45 Coffee Break
Philosophy of Physics
(Chair: tba)
Philosophy of Biology
(Chair: tba)
16:00 Iñaki Eguia Elejabarrieta
Time, Entropy, and Intelligence: The Cognitive Construction of a Functional Universe
Piet Fritz Pankratz
Beyond Critique: Philosophers as Epistemic Co-Creators in Biology
16:30 Adomas Šulcas
Divergence of Time: Philosophy and Science
Sean Quägwer
Biohacking and the Demarcation Problem
17:00 Finn Thwaite
What Happens to Physicalism When Physics Shifts?
Omid Latifi
Reciprocity as the Foundation of Human Morality
18:00 Dinner

Saturday (26.07)

09:00 Coffee and Registration
9:30 Keynote Speaker: Doohyun Sung
Evidential Pluralism in Pharmaceutical Regulation
10:30 Coffee Break
Meta-Reflection
(Chair: tba)
Historical Analysis
(Chair: tba)
10:45 Fred Collings
Naturalistic Philosophy and Necessity
Donatas Getneris
Spinoza vs. Boyle: The Early Rift Between Rationalist Metaphysics and Experimental Science
11:15 Sabrina Conforti
Metaphysics as Guide: Completing the Holistic Package in Modal Naturalism
Dominik Müller
Making Problems Disappear: Hertz’s Scientific Method and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Enterprise
11:45 Amir Latifi
Should Science Enjoy a Monopoly of Knowledge?
Abdullah Amjad
Peirce’s Scientific Philosophy: A Case Study of Symbiosis between Philosophy and Science
12:15 Lunch Break
Philosophy of Medicine
(Chair: tba)
Meta-Reflection
(Chair: tba)
13:45 Aphrodite Simalas
When Patients Speak and Medicine Doesn’t Listen – Testimonial Injustice and the Hidden Root of Reductionism
Sahand Mortazavi
On Essence, A Critical Review of the Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
14:15 Léo Portelance
Considering the Epistemic Contribution of Patients in the Development of a Diagnostic Category: The Case of Long Covid
Myriam Henry
Can Direct Social Perception Be Predictive? Articulating Phenomenology and Neuroscience
14:45 Coffee and Networking
15:45 Closing Marks