Simulation and thought experiment
8-9 June 2017, University of Geneva
Uni Bastions – room B214
Rue de Candolle 5, 1205 Genève
Thursday, 8 June 2017
12h30 Pre-conference lunch – Uni Dufour
14h00 Margherita Arcangeli, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Mental simulation as the hidden link between real, thought and numerical experiments
15h00 Coffee
15h15 Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Mental Representation, Simulation, and Thought Experiments
16h15 Coffee
16h30 Claus Beisbart, Universität Bern
19h00 Conference dinner – L’Echalotte (Rue des Rois 17, Genève)
Friday, 9 June 2017
09h30 Stephan Hartmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, MCMP
Confirmation via Analogue Simulation: A Bayesian Analysis
10h30 Coffee
10h45 Anouk Barberousse, Sorbonne Université – Sciences, Normes, Décision
On the respective powers of computer simulations and imagination
11h45 Coffee
12h00 Michael Stuart, London School of Economics, CPNSS
Thought Experiments and Computer Simulations are Metaphorical Experiments
13h00 Lunch – Uni Dufour
14h30 Daniel Dohrn, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Schlick on Simulating Experience as a Sinnkriterium for Thought Experiments
15h30 Coffee
15h45 Nenad Miscevic, Central European University, Budapest
Simulation in political thought experiments
16h45 Rawad El Skaf, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHPST
17h45 Wrap up
18h00 End of conference
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