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Workshop on "The empirical and the formal", Wuppertal (Germany), May 30-June 1, 2007

Interdisziplinres Zentrum fr Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung an der
Universitt Wuppertal

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

The empirical and the formal: Tensions in scientific knowledge. State of
research and perspectives

May 30 - June 1, 2007

Organisers:

Moritz Epple (Frankfurt/ M.)
Helmut Pulte (Bochum)
Gregor Schiemann (Wuppertal)
Erhard Scholz (Wuppertal)
Friedrich Steinle (Wuppertal)

Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Campus Grifflenberg, Senatssaal, P.08.14

More information: http://www.izwt.uni-wuppertal.de,
Tel (IZWT Sekretariat). 0202/439 3604

Programm:

Wednesday, 30 May

9.15-10.00 h      Welcome, Introduction
Friedrich Steinle & Gregor Schiemann (Wuppertal): The empirical and the
formal: tensions in scientific knowledge

10:00-12:00 h    Hydraulics and hydrodynamics
Olivier Darrigol (Paris): Empirico-practical challenges and conceptual
innovation in nineteenth-century hydrodynamics
Michael Eckert (Munich): Theory from wind tunnels: empirical roots of 20th
century fluid dynamics

14:00-16:00 h    Geomagnetism
A.R.T. Jonkers (Liverpool): The pursuit of magnetic shadows: the
formal-empirical dipole field of early-modern geomagnetism
Gregory A. Good (West Virginia): Multiple Orientations: Studies of Earths
Magnetism in the Nineteenth Century

16:30-18:30 h    Experimentalism and unification
Chuang Liu (Florida, FL,): Laws and Models in a Theory of Idealization and
its impact to the recent unity/disunity debate
Stephan Hartmann (London/ Tilburg): Between Unity and Disunity - A Bayesian
Account of Intertheoretic Relations


Thursday, 31 May 2007

10:00-12:00      Cosmology
Helge Kragh (Aarhus): The Divorce between theory and measurement in
20th-Century cosmology
Hans Jrg Fahr (Bonn): Solid views of modern cosmology build on unsafe
concepts of cosmological nothingness

14:00-16:00 h    Underdetermination
Thomas Bonk (Munich): Basic issues in the current debate on
underdetermination.
Kyle Stanford (Irvine, CA): Formal and empirical approaches to the problem
of underdetermination

16:30-18:30 h    The concept of the symbol
Thomas Ryckman (San Francisco): Coordination and Constitution: On the
Intentionality of Formal Representation
Thomas Mormann (San Sebastian): Critical Idealism vs. Logical Empiricism:
How to draw the line between mathematical and empirical concepts


Friday, 1 June

10:00-12:00 h    General perspectives
Sophie Roux (Grenoble): A plea for a long-term history ofmathematization
Michael Heidelberger (Tbingen): General comment

12.15-13.00 h    Final discussion