BSPS 2019 Annual Conference
17-19 July 2019, Durham University
About the Annual Conference
The BSPS holds a major annual conference every year in the summertime. The call for papers is typically in the fall, and deadlines for symposium and contributed paper proposals are typically between January and March. The 2019 annual conference at Durham University took place on 17-19 July 2019.
Attendance at the conference is restricted to members of the BSPS.
Attendance & Registration
Registration for the BSPS 2019 Annual Conference at Durham University is now closed.
The standard conference fee was £60 (£40 for students/unwaged), plus a £5 registration fee for non-Durham delegates. This included lunches on 18 and 19 July, a drinks reception on 17 July, and refreshments throughout. Single accommodation (£38.33/night) and the conference dinner (£20) could also be reserved during the registration process.
2019 Programme
All details of the BSPS2019 programme, including abstracts for all talks, can be found in the conference programme booklet.
Wednesday 17th July
14.00 – 15.00 Registration Desk opens – Chemistry Atrium
15.00 – 16.30 Parallel Sessions 1
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.30 Plenary 1: Jenann Ismael (Columbia) – “Rethinking Time and Determinism”
18.30 – 19.30 OUP Drinks reception – Calman Learning Centre, top floor
Thursday 18th July
09.30 – 11.00 Parallel Sessions 2
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00 Plenary 2: Robin Hendry (Durham) and Paul Needham (Stockholm) – “Chemical Substances”
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
13.25 – 13.55 BJPS Meet the Editors – Chemistry 218
14.00 – 15.30 Parallel Sessions 3
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 18.00 Parallel sessions 4
19.30 – 22.00 Conference dinner – Zizzi’s restaurant, 43-44 Saddler St, Durham DH1 3NU
Friday 19th July
09.30 – 11.00 Parallel Sessions 5
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30 Parallel Sessions 6
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break
13.40 – 14.25 BSPS Annual General Meeting – Calman Learning Centre 202
14.30 – 16.00 Plenary 3: Nicholas Shea (London) – “Syntactic and Semantic Inferences in the Representational Theory of Mind”
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All plenary sessions took place in the Rosemary Cramp lecture theatre in the Calman Learning Centre, Room 202.
For parallel sessions, see schedule below.
Coffee breaks and lunches were held in the Chemistry Atrium and Café.
The poster session was located in the Chemistry Atrium; a list of posters is below.
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Parallel Sessions
Wednesday 17th July
| Parallel sessions 1: 15.00 – 16.30 | |||
| Symposium Calman 202 | Symposium Chemistry 060 | Symposium Chemistry 218 | Symposium Archaeology 210 |
| Biases in the Sciences and Science-Based Policy Speakers: | Cosmology in Silico Speakers: | Multiple Realisability in the Sciences Speakers: | Moving Past the Naturalism-Normativism Dichotomy in Philosophy of Medicine Speakers: |
Thursday 18th July
| Parallel sessions 2: 09.30 – 11.00 | |||
| Symposium Calman 202 | Symposium Chemistry 060 | General Chemistry 218 Chair: Sophie Ritson | Life Archaeology 210 Chair: Elselijn Kingma |
| The New Reduction: Formal, Conceptual, and Physical Perspectives Speakers: | The impact of the replication crisis on philosophy: two case studies Speakers: | Enno Fischer Causation, Intervention, and Responsibility | Jonathan Grose Disease, Sex, Senescence and Pregnancy. Who’s normal? |
| Ulrich Stegmann Quantifying causal specificity comes up short | Sam Fellowes Why symptom based approaches are not enough: the value of psychiatric diagnoses | ||
| Margherita Harris Confidence: A New Dimension of Scientific Knowledge? | Michael Wilde Evidence in cancer epidemiology at IARC | ||
| Parallel sessions 3: 14.00 – 15.30 | |||
| General Calman 202 Chair: William Peden | Physical Chemistry 060 Chair: Alastair Wilson | Life Chemistry 218 Chair: Riana Betzler | Mixed Archaeology 210 Chair: Katie Robertson |
| Harry Lewendon-Evans Socially Extended Scientific Understanding | Henrique Gomes Gauge and boundary: a complicated relationship | Joe Dewhurst Perspectival realism about mechanistic functions
| Chloé de Canson Salience and the Sure-Thing Principle |
| Katherine Furman Going it Alone (Epistemically) | Caspar Jacobs Inequivalent Representations and the Coalesced Structures Approach: Non-Radically Unpristine | Geoff Keeling / Niall Paterson Proper Functions: Etiology Without Typehood | Jean Baccelli / Rush Stewart Support for Geometric Pooling |
| Franklin Jacoby What are we pluralist about? | John Dougherty Fields, loops, and the Strong CP problem | Martin Zach Revisiting abstraction and idealization in molecular biology | David Glass/Jonah Schupbach Conjunctive Explanations |
| Parallel sessions 4: 16.00 – 18.00 | |||
| General Calman 202 Chair: Katherine Furman | Physical Chemistry 060 Chair: Lina Jansson | Life Chemistry 218 Chair: Suilin Lavelle | Mixed Archaeology 210 Chair: Beth Hannon |
| Robert Northcott Prediction markets and extrapolation | Peter Evans / Sam Baron What’s So Spatial About Time Anyway? | Catherine Greene Predictable behaviour and intentional action: Disentangling the two | Ana-Maria Crețu Natural Kinds as Real Patterns |
| Donal Khosrowi What is (successful) extrapolation? | Lucy James Time, Cauchy Problems and Physical Modality | Domi Dessaix What does it take to be a psychological primitive? Separating innateness from foundationalism | Riana Betzler Stability and the Looping Effects of Human Kinds |
| Olav Vassend Justifying the Norms of Inductive Inference | Matt Farr Indeterminism and the C theory | Manolo Martinez Direct Perception and Computation | Tiziano Ferrando The ontology of patterns |
| William Peden Direct Inference in the Material Theory of Induction | Baptiste Le Bihan Spacetime Emergence and Functional Realization | Mihnea Capraru Drawing the semantics–pragmatics distinction in animal communication | [Talk cancelled] |
Friday 19th July
| Parallel sessions 5: 09.30 – 11.00 | |||
| Symposium Calman 202 | Symposium Chemistry 060 | General Chemistry 218 Chair: Harry Lewendon-Evans | Modelling Archaeology 210 Chair: Wendy Parker |
| Effective Field Theories: Top-down and bottom-up Speakers: | Structure and Composition in Chemistry Speakers: | Arthur Harris Quinean Realism and a New Defence of Antirealism | Karen Crowther / Niels Linnemann / Christian Wüthrich What we cannot learn from analogue experiments |
| Rune Nyrup Explanatory Pragmatism as a Philosophy for the Science of Explainable Artificial Intelligence | Alexander Gebharter / Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla Confirmation Based on Analogical Inference: Bayes meets Jeffrey | ||
| Chris Dorst Predictive Infelicities and the Neo-Humean Conception of Laws | Philippos Papayannopoulos Computing and Modelling: Analog vs. Analogue | ||
| Parallel sessions 6: 11.30 – 13.30 | |||
| Physical Calman 202 Chair: Karen Crowther | Mixed Chemistry 060 Chair: Ana-Maria Crețu | General Chemistry 218 Chair: Peter Vickers | Modelling Archaeology 210 Chair: Juha Saatsi |
| Javier Anta Is physically significant the analogy between Shannon’s information and mechanical statistical entropies? | Alice Murphy The Literary Form of Scientific Thought Experiments | Joseph D. Martin / Agnes Bolinska Negotiating History: Contingency, Canonicity, and Case Studies | Atoosa Kasirzadeh Levels and a new role for mathematics in empirical sciences |
| James Wills Gibbs’ Solution of Gibbs’ paradox | Sophie Ritson Probing Novelty at the Large Hadron Collider: Heuristic appraisal of disruptive experimentation | Luca Tambolo Multiple discoveries, multiple errors, and the inevitability of science | Michele Lubrano Difference-making and explanation in mathematics |
| Niels Linneman Quantisation as a method of discovery | Roberto Fumagalli On the Individuation of Choice Options | Hannah Tomczyk Descriptions don’t always close the gap in the mapping account | |
| Ronnie Hermens Sufficiently Real? A Critical Review of the Theorems by Colbeck and Renner | Colin McCullough-Benner Heaviside’s Operational Calculus and the Application of Unrigorous Mathematics | ||
Poster Session
Antonis Antoniou
A pragmatic approach on the ontology of models
Niels Linnemann and Kian Salimkhani
The constructivist’s programme and the problem of pregeometry
Call for Abstracts
Submissions of abstracts and symposia have now closed and decisions have been notified. For more information, contact: assistant@thebsps.org
Local Information
A map of the conference talk venues can be found in the conference programme booklet.
Information on local cafes, bars, restaurants and taxi firms can be found at the Joint Session page. Further information on and reviews for food and drink establishments can be searched at This Is Durham.
Accessibility
BSPS 2019 took place in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University and surrounding buildings. All areas of the conference venue were disabled accessible, and accessible options were available for the accommodation and conference dinner.
Organization and Programme Committee
Local Organizer:
Wendy Parker (Durham)
Programme Committee:
Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge)
Valia Allori (Northern Illinois)
Sorin Bangu (Bergen)
Harjit Bhogal (Maryland)
Baptiste Le Bihan (Geneva)
Jonathan Birch (LSE)
Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)
Harvey Brown (Oxford)
Ellen Clarke (Leeds)
Karen Crowther (Geneva)
Erik Curiel (Munich)
Adrian Currie (Exeter)
Richard Dawid (Stockholm)
Natalja Deng (Yonsei)
Zoe Drayson (UC Davis)
Peter Evans (Queensland)
Matt Farr (Cambridge)
Luke Fenton-Glynn (UCL)
Samuel Fletcher (Minnesota)
Laura Franklin-Hall (NYU)
Henrique Gomes (Cambridge)
Carl Hoefer (Barcelona)
Vera Hofmann-Kolss (Cologne)
Nick Huggett (Chicago)
Andreas Hütteman (Cologne)
Alastair Isaac (Edinburgh)
Milena Ivanova (Cambridge)
Molly Kao (Montreal)
Elselijn Kingma (Southampton)
Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn)
Peter Lewis (Vermont)
Christian List (LSE)
Conor Mayo-Wilson (Washington)
Fred Muller (Erasmus)
James Nguyen (UCL)
Patricia Palacios (Salzburg)
James Read (Oxford)
Juha Saatsi (Leeds)
Simon Saunders (Oxford)
Samuel Schindler (Aarhus)
Elay Shech (Alabama)
Tuomas Tahko (Bristol)
Karim Thébault (Bristol)
Johanna Thoma (LSE)
Emily Thomas (Durham)
Kirsten Walsh (Exeter)
Charlotte Werndl (Salzburg)
Jon Williamson (Kent)
Alastair Wilson (Birmingham)
David Yates (Lisbon)
Lena Zuchowski (Bristol)