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Ernst Mach and Perspectival Realism

A new article by Pietro Gori has been published in the Journal for General Philosophy of Science.
The paper titled “The Perspectival Realist features of Ernst Mach’s Critical Epistemology“ has a twofold aim. On the one hand, it explores the extent to which Mach was inspired by Kant’s approach to philosophical inquiry and tried to further elaborate it through his historico-critical method for enlightening scientific knowledge claims. On the other hand, it argues that the focus on the situated character of these claims that is implied in Mach’s epistemology makes it possible to compare his view to recent attempts to defend a perspectival realist account of scientific knowledge, thus revealing the relevance of Mach’s own approach as a methodology in the philosophy of science.
Full-text access to a view-only version of the paper is available here, as part of the Springer Nature Content Sharing Initiative.
 
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Forces and Fields

On November 21, 2022, María De Paz will give a talk on one of the first works published by Mary Hesse, “Forces and Fields” (1961).
In that book, Hesse focuses on the question “How do bodies act on one another across space?”, elaborating a variety of answers that illustrates the function of fundamental analogies or models in physics, as well as the role of so-called unobservable entities. Hesse examines the use of analogies in primitive scientific explanation, particularly in the works of aristotle, and contrast them with latter-day theories such as those of gravitation and relativity. Her perspective sheds considerable light on the scientific thinking of antiquity, and it highlights the debt that the seventeenth-century natural philosophers owed to Greek ideas.
The session will take place at Colégio Almada Negreiros of the NOVA University of Lisbon , Room SE1, from 2:30 PM.

 

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Scientific Modelling Workshop

On November 4, 2022, our research project will host a workshop on “Scientific Modelling and the Classic Tradition”, with guests from the Inductive Metaphysics research group.
The meeting will take place at the NOVA University of Lisbon, FCSH (av. de Berna 26 C).

Programme

10AM-12AM – Session 1
FCSH Building B, Room 304
– Kristina Engelhard (Uni Trier), “Modeling natural kinds according to Kant”
– Lorenzo Spagnesi (Uni Trier), “Regulative Idealization: A Kantian Approach to Idealized Models”

2PM-4PM – Session 2
FCSH Building B, Room 304
– David Hommen (Uni Duesseldorf), “A Wittgensteinian View of Models”
– Giulia Terzian (IFILNOVA), “False models can be good models: the case of generative linguistics” 
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Iberian Network of Philosophy of Science

On September 8-9, 2022, the Center of Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon will host the first meeting of the newly created Iberian Network of Philosophy of Science.
This will surely be an important and exciting occasion for presenting the work of our research group and extend the network of collaboration with other important institutions in the field. 
For more informations, see here.