Explanation across
the disciplines
September 14-15, 2018
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
PROGRAM
Conference Home -- Program -- Abstracts
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
PROGRAM
Conference Home -- Program -- Abstracts
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Session I: Philosophy and Explanation
110 Storrs Avenue, Davis Family Library 201 – Watson Lecture Hall
3:30-4:30
Kareem Khalifa “Explanation: A Guide for the Perplexed”
4:40-5:30
Nina Emery “Explanatory Adequacy as a Constraint on Scientifically-Respectable Philosophical Theories”
5:30-6:45
Dinner
219 South Main Street, Kenyon Arena Lounge
Keynote I
7:00-8:30
Michael Strevens, "Grasp"
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Session II: The Impact of Explanations
110 Storrs Avenue, Davis Family Library 201 – Watson Lecture Hall
9:00-9:50
Jeffry Ramsey, “Explanation in the Wicked World of Environmental Problems”
10:00-10:50
Piper Sledge & Collin Rice “An Epistemic Case for Diversity in Science”
11:00-12:15
KEYNOTE: Tania Lombrozo
12:30-1:30
Lunch
Session III: Mathematical Explanations
1:40-2:30
Janet Folina “Explanation and Visual Information in Mathematics”
2:40-3:30
Sam Cowling, Seth Chin-Parker, & May Mei, “What Makes Platonists Tick? Explanatory Preferences in Mathematical Matters”
3:30-5:30
Group Discussion
6:00-closing time
Dinner and Continued Discussion