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Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice
| Location: | Germany |
| Workshop Date: | 2009-08-13 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-05-07 |
| Announcement ID: |
168565 |
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In the philosophy of science, concepts have traditionally been treated from the perspective of the rationality of conceptual change. Recently, however, there has been a surge of interest in the issue of how concepts themselves function in the research that gives rise to new scientific insights.
The workshop seeks to bring together scholars interested in the role of concepts in investigative practice in order to identify some key questions and issues, and to map out some directions for current and future research. We have asked participants to prepare a brief statement (10-15 minutes) in which they outline their own research interest, preferably by relating it to a scientific example.
Workshop Organizers: Uljana Feest (TU Berlin) & Friedrich Steinle (Bergische UniversitätWuppertal)
Place: Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, H3005
Date: May 22/23, 2009
May 22
1. Concept Formation and Knowledge Generation
Mieke Boon (Universiteit Twente): “Circumventing the realism-debate -- How concepts are made and shape the thinkable world”
Hanne Andersen (Aarhus University): “Concepts, knowledge, and groups”
2. Models and Modeling in Conceptual Innovation
Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology): “Modeling practices in conceptual innovation”
Dirk Schlimm (McGill University): “New approaches to the creation of mathematical concepts in the nineteenth century”
3. Definitions in Scientific Practice
Uljana Feest (Technische Universität Berlin): “Concept formation and theory-construction: The role of operational definitions”
Corinne Bloch (Tel Aviv University/University of Pittsburgh):
“Definitions as tools in investigative practice”
May 23
4. Concepts, Meaning, and Experiments
Theodore Arabatzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): “Experimentation and the meaning of scientific concepts”
Friedrich Steinle (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): “Concepts and experiments”
5. Philosophical Appraisals
Allan Gotthelf (University of Pittsburgh): “Concepts and their Formation: philosophical support for the Steinle thesis”
Andreas Bartels (Universität Bonn): “Skepticism about Concepts. What is its point and what does it mean for historians of science?”
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