4th Workshop on Philosophy of Science: Models, Representations, and Modality

• Cristián Soto (Universidad de Chile, Chile) - Welcome and relevant information

• Juan Larraín Correa (PUC de Chile, Chile) - Exploration and perspectival modelling with model organisms: developmental biology as a case study

Coffee break

• Ignacio Rojas (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Structural realism, mathematics and modality

• Maribel Barroso (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile) - Inducción, Quo Vadis?

Lunch

• Alejandro Cassini, keynote address (Conicet-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - What are cosmological models?

Coffee break

• Roman Frigg, keynote address (London School of Economics, UK - Stabilising understanding

• Felipe Morales-Carbonell (Universidad de Chile, Chile) - How-possible explanations of impossibilities

Coffee break

• Diego Maltrana (PUC de Valparaíso, Chile) - Laws and dispositions

• Bruno Borge (Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET, Argentina) - Grounding Modal Modeling: Modalism and the Limits of Empiricism

Lunch

• Joaquim Giannotti, keynote address (Universidad Mayor, Chile) - Metaphysical Models and Aptness: A Plea for Methodological Moderation

Coffee break

• Otávio Bueno, keynote address (University of Miami, U.S.A.) - How Can Models Represent Possibilities?

• Juan Redmond, keynote address (Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile) - Hypothesis and Target System in the practice of modelling in science

• Guadalupe Mettini, keynote address (UNAM, México) - Thought Experiments, Modelling Attitude, and Styles of Reasoning

Coffee break

• Arezoo Islami, keynote address (San Francisco State University, U.S.A.) - Reversal of a Trend: Symmetry Principles and Laws of Nature

Lunch

Roundtable: Assessing the modal modelling strategy 

• Cristián Soto [15.00-15.15]
• Roman Frigg [15.15-15.30]
• Otávio Bueno [15.30-15.45]
• Q&A with Audience [15.45-16.30]