Department of
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Eötvös University, Budapest
|
Pázmány P. sétány
1/A
Budapest, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924
Location?
The web site of the seminar:
http://hps.elte.hu/seminar |
Philosophy
of Science Seminar
Room 6.54 (6th
floor) Monday 4:00 PM
|
|
|
Program
|
June
|
|
|
|
3 June
4:00 PM
6th floor 6.54
|
László E.
Szabó |
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eötvös University, Budapest
|
|
A kauzalitás ontológiai felfogása
(Ontological theory of causality)
|
Az okság Hume-i analíziséből kiindulva kritikailag
áttekintjük a kauzalitás episztemikus, modális
és valószínűségi felfogását. Kicsit
bővebben időzünk Lewis kontrafaktuális analízisénél
és a "véletlen együttjárás" -ra vonatkozó
ismert Sober-példánál. Ezt követően argumentumokat
hangoztatunk az okság ontológiai felfogása mellett
(Salmon és Russell nyomdokain haladva). Vegül megbeszéljük
a kauzalitás és a korreláció viszonyát.
|
|
|
|
|
|
10 June
4:00 PM
6th floor 6.54
|
Friedrich
Steinle
|
Institute for Philosophy, Bern University
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
|
|
Discovering? Justifying?
Experiments in History and Philosophy of Science |
The philosophical 'standard view' on experiment - finding the only
epistemic function of experiment in the tests of well-formulated
hypotheses - is closely connected to an implicit or explicit
distinction of the contexts of discovery and justification. Recent
studies, however, have opened more differentiated perspectives. In
particular, there is a specific type of experiments discernible which I
call "exploratory." Typically, it occurs in situations in which there
is not only no theory available, but even the very concepts and
categories of a subject field are opened to revision. Periods of
exploratory experimentation often end up with a new
conceptualization of the field, providing new outlooks and, at the same
time, rendering other ones literally unspeakable. Exploratory experimentation can be contrasted to a more
theory-driven type in many respects epistemic, procedural,
instrumental, situative. Though it might be tempting to attribute
those two types again to a dichotomy between discovery and
justification, a closer look makes clear that such a view is
inappropriate. At the same time, fundamental shortcomings of that
distinction itself become visible. In my talk, I shall both explicate
those claims in general terms and substantiate them by cases of
experimental research in the history of electricity. Moreover, I
shall propose a more promising perspective onto research practice
and discuss where and why some type of discovery-justification
distinction might well be appropriate.
|
|
|
|
The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then
we hold a 30-60-minute discussion. The language of the presentation is indicated
in the following way:
English
English, except if all participants speak Hungarian
Hungarian
The participants
may comment on the talks and are encouraged to initiate discussion through the
Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation.
The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó
(email: leszabo@hps.elte.hu) |
|