The Inaugural Conference of the MA Program in Contemporary Philosophy/Philosophy of Science "Contemporary Philosophy meets Philosophy of Science: Trends and Perspectives" took place on 28-29 September 2023 at the Kostis Palamas building.
Speakers:
Theodore Arabatzis (Athens)
Mauro Dorato (Rome)
Pascal Engel (EHESS)
Vassilios Karakostas (Athens)
Vasso Kindi (Athens)
Eleni Manolakaki (Athens)
Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (Athens)
Emmanuel Picavet (Sorbonne)
Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt)
Claudine Tiercelin (College de France)
Torsten Wilholt (Hannover)
Julie Zahle (Bergen)
Thursday 28th September
09.30–10.30am Theodore Arabatzis (Athens) — Contingency and Counterfactuals in History and Philosophy of Science
10.40–11.40am Mauro Dorato (Rome) — The Oscillation of Metaphysical Necessity between the Scylla of Logical Necessity and the Charybdis of Physical Necessity
Coffee break until 12.10 pm
12.10–1.10pm Claudine Tiercelin (College de France) — Metaphysics and Science: Old and New Frontiers
1.20-2.20pm Pascal Engel (EHESS) — Idealisations in Science and Beyond
Lunch Break until 4.00 pm
4.00–5.00pm Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (Athens) — The Constitution of Science
Coffee break until 5.30 pm
5.30–6.30pm Vassilios Karakostas (Athens) — Contemporary Scientific Perspectivism
Friday 29th September
09.30–10.30am Eleni Manolakaki (Athens) — Contemporary Foundational Accounts of Propositions
10.40–11.40am Torsten Wilholt (Hannover) — Degrees of Value-ladenness
Coffee break until 12.10 pm
12.10–1.10pm Emmanuel Picavet (Sorbonne) — Philosophy and Inter-Normativities
1.20-2.20pm Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt) — Reasons and Ought: An Inquiry into the Structure of Practical Normativity
Lunch Break until 4.00 pm
4.00–5.00pm Julie Zahle (Bergen) — Reactivity and Bias in Qualitative Research
Coffee break until 5.30 pm
5.30–6.30pm Vasso Kindi (Athens) — Feyerabend and Wittgenstein
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The 2nd Annual Conference of the MA Program in Contemporary Philosophy/Philosophy of Science "Contemporary Philosophy meets Philosophy of Science: Trends and Perspectives: II" took place on 26-27 September 2024 at the Kostis Palamas building.
Speakers:
Helen Beebee (Leeds)
Alex Byrne (MIT)
Lilia Gurova (Sofia)
Anthony Hatzimoysis (Athens)
Stavros Ioannidis (Athens)
María Jiménez-Buedo (Madrid)
Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)
Stathis Psillos (Athens)
Thomas Sattig (Tübingen)
Conference programme:
Thursday 26th September
10.00–11.00am Helen Beebee (Leeds) — Does Causation Come in Degrees?
11.10–12.10am (online) Michela Massimi (Edinburgh) — Local Knowledge and Perspectival Realism
Coffee break until 12.40 pm
12.40–1.40pm Stathis Psillos (Athens) — Is There a Problem with Induction? Lessons from the long 17th century
Lunch Break until 3.30 pm
3.30-4.30pm Alex Byrne (MIT) — Natural Minds, Artificial Minds, Simulated Minds
Coffee break until 5.00 pm
5.00–6.00pm Anthony Hatzimoysis (Athens) — The Rationality of Moods
Friday 27th September
10.00–11.00am Stavros Ioannidis (Athens) — Reconsidering the Structure of Darwin’s ‘Long Argument’
11.10–12.10am Lilia Gurova (Sofia) — Understanding, Prediction, and Inference
Coffee break until 12.40 pm
12.40–1.40pm María Jiménez-Buedo (Madrid) — Social Mechanisms: a trilemma for scientific explanation
Lunch Break until 3.30 pm
3.30-4.30pm Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) — From Spacetime in Physics to Space and Time in Human Experience
Coffee break until 5.00 pm
5.00–6.30pm Book Symposium on Chrysostomos Mantzavinos’s The Constitution of Science (CUP, 2024)
(Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, Theodore Arabatzis, Helen Beebee, Alex Byrne)
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The 3rd Annual Conference of the MA Program in Contemporary Philosophy/Philosophy of Science "Contemporary Philosophy meets Philosophy of Science: Trends and Perspectives: III" took place on 25-26 September 2025 at the Danish Institute of Athens.
Speakers:
Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge)
Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Jens Harbecke (Witten/Herdecke University)
Anthony Hatzimoysis (University of Athens)
Andreas Hüttemann (University of Cologne)
Vasso Kindi (University of Athens)
Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (University of Athens)
Patricia Mindus (Uppsala University)
Conference programme:
Thursday 25th September
10.00–11.00am Jens Harbecke — Unveiling the nature of philosophical problems: Formal and conceptual aspects
Coffee break until 11.30 pm
11.30–12.30pm Andreas Hüttemann — The Laws, the Past and the Consequence Argument
Lunch Break until 2.30 pm
2.30–3.30pm Anna Alexandrova — Can social science do without human exceptionalism?”
Coffee break until 4.00 pm
4.00-5.00pm Vasso Kindi — Feyerabend on Incommensurability
Friday 26th September
10.00–11.00am Carla Bagnoli — Moral disorientation and the social authority of reason
Coffee break until 11.30 pm
11.30–12.30pm Patricia Mindus — Time, Law, Knowledge – A Gordian Knot?
Lunch Break until 2.30 pm
2.30–3.30pm Chrysostomos Mantzavinos — On Friendship
Coffee break until 4.00 pm
4.00-5.00pm Anthony Hatzimoysis — The Feeling Body
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