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National Chung Cheng University
Université Catholique de Louvain
Taiwan-Belgium
Philosophy of Science
Online Workshop 2022
About the Workshop
To promote the interaction between Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium and Universities in Taiwan in the philosophy of science studies, we will hold the Taiwan-Belgium Philosophy of Science Workshop on 12-13 September. The workshop gathers the philosophy of science scholars from UCL and some universities in Taiwan (including National Chung Cheng University, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, National Tsing Hua University, etc.) to present their recent works in the philosophy of science. The topics of the presentations include three major categories: causation in biology, models in science, and the scientific realism debate.
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Program
Day 1: 12th September (Taiwan Time)
14:20 – 14:30 Opening
14:30 – 15:20 Speaker: Chen, Ruey-Lin
Among observable, unobservable, and real: Revising the concepts of observable and unobservable
15:30 – 16:50 Keynote speech; Speaker: Guay, Alexandre
Challenges involved in the development of an ontic conception of causality in biology
17:00 – 17:50 Speaker: Pence, Charles
Natural selection and the metaphysics of causation
18:00 – 18:50 Speaker: Hou, Richard Wei -Tzu
The causal structure of historical inevitability and variability
19:00 – 19:50 Speaker: Au, Yin Chung
Is the interventionist account useful for understanding diverse activities in microbiota-gut-brain axis research?
Day2: 13th September (Taiwan Time)
14:00 – 14:50 Speaker: Chao, Hsiang-Ke
Three kinds of the Lotka-Volterra model transfer from biology to economics
15:00 – 15:50 Speaker: Cheng, Min-Jung
Idealized patient models in patient-centered care
16:00 – 16:50 Speaker: Kuo, Yun-Ying
Epistemic injustice in shared decision-making
17:00 – 17:50 Speaker: Hricko, Jonathan
Theories that are more successful than their rivals are not more likely to contain approximately true parts if the evidence is misleading
18:00 – 18:50 Speaker: Tsang, Nga Wing
A response to the post-Kuhnian scientific realism debate
19:00 – 19:50 Speaker: Hung, Sung
Is Kepler’s “solar rotation” prediction a counterexample of selective realism?
19:00 – 20:00 Ending
The Speakers
Alexandre Guay
Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain
Areas of specilization: philosophy of natural sceinces (physics and biology) and analytic philosophy
Current research domains:
- Metaphyiscs of science: process individual, time, causality, laws of nature
- Science and society: valuation and scientific experts
Chen Ruey-Lin
Professor, National Chung Cheng University
Areas of specilization: philosophy of science, natural philosophy, history of western science, science, technology and society
Current research domains:
- Philosophy of biology: biological individuals
- Scientific Realism Debate: experimental realism and localism
Charles Pence
Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain
Areas of specilization: philosophy and history of biology, general philosophy of science, digitial humanities, ethics of science and technology
New books: