ll Dipartimento di Filosofia “Piero Martinetti” presenta:
Normative Kinds Seminar
Modalities in Modeling: A Separate Scientific Practice?
Speaker: Till Grüne-Yanoff – Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
Abstract
I defend the claim that modal modeling (MM) practices should be treated as a separate kind due to their distinct conceptual, epistemic and methodological features. I first describe examples of MM from different scientific disciplines, and point out the unifying features within the diversity of MM. I then sketch standard accounts of scientific modeling, contrasting MM with these accounts in three dimensions. Some of these arguments will draw on earlier work together with Ylwa Sjölin-Wirling; but I also present a new argument against recent claims by Nguyen (2020), Tan (2022) and Verreault-Julien (2022) that modal models have the actual world as their target.
Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
The meeting will be held in English.
It will be possible to access the meeting until all places are filled.
Participation is strongly recommended to students of the Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences and to students of the Doctoral School “The Human Mind and its Explanations: Language, Brain, and Reasoning”.
L’evento è parte del ciclo seminariale Normative Kinds Seminars ed è finanziato dal progetto PRIN 2022 Normative Kinds (Responsabile Prof. Francesco Guala).
Dove: Sala Piero Martinetti, Cortile Ghiacciaia, I piano, Via Festa del Perdono, 7, Milano.
Quando: 09/06/2025 – Ore 16:30-18:00 CET
Contatti
Davide Serpico: davide.serpico1@unimi.it