Department of Philosophy, University of York
Friday, 31st May, 2019
Wentworth College: W/N/202
10-11.15: Michael T. Stuart (University of Geneva): ‘The Turn of the Key: Imagination and Scientific Models‘
11.15-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.45: Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna): ‘Synthetic Models: Concrete and Fictional?‘
12.45-2pm: Lunch
2-3.15: Mary Leng and Fiora Salis (University of York): ‘Dynamic Imagining in Economic Modelling: Some Case Studies’
3.15-3.30: Coffee Break
3.30-4.45: Manuel García-Carpintero (Logos, University of Barcelona): ‘Models as hypostatizations: the case of supervaluationism in semantics‘
4.45-5.15: Reflections and Future Developments (panel)
5.15: Close.
The workshop is free for academics and students to attend. If you plan to attend, please contact us so that we can keep track of numbers.
Imagination and Fiction in Scientific Modelling 