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(state August 3, 2003)

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Accepted Contributed Papers by Section

Logic.
General Philosophy of Science.
1. Methodology.
2. Induction, probability and statistics.
Philosophical Issues of Particular Sciences.
Ethical, Social, and Historical Perspectives on Philosophy of Science.

A. Logic

A.1 Mathematical logic (proof theory, recursion theory, model theory, set theory)

J. Bentwich, "The Cognitive 'Duality Principle': A Resolution of the 'Liar Paradox' and 'Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem' Conundrums".
M. Borisavljević, “Normal Derivations of Sequent Systems”.
D. S. Bridges, “Apartness Spaces and Constructive Topology”.
V. Bulitko and V. Bulitko, "On Existence of Complete Sets for Access-bounded Reducibilities".
E. Casanovas, "Dividing and Chain Conditions".
A. A. Chubaryan, A. A. Chubaryan and S. R. Aleksanyan, “On the Proofs Complexity in Some Weak Systems of CPL”.
M. F. Colomar and L. C. Pereira "Gentzen's First (unpublished) Consistency Proof for Intuitionistic Arithmetic".
A. Cordón Franco, A. Fernández Margarit and F. F. Lara Martín, "Parameter Free Induction and True Sentences".
J. Derichs, “A Proposal for Restructuring Mathematical Logic”.
J. Joosten, "Iterations of Total Functions and Parsons' Theorem".
M. Krynicki, "Decidability and Definability in Finite Models for Arithmetics".
F. A. Muller, “Cantor-Von Neumann Set-Theory”.
V. Plisko, D. Viter and P. Byon Ha “Primitive Recursive Realizability and the Predicate Logic”.
J. Úbeda Rives, “Finite Models and Partial Recursive Functions”.
L. S. Víţă, “Set-Set Apartness and Uniform Spaces”.
G. Wu, “Embedding S8 into the d.c.e. Degrees with 0 and 1 Preserved”.
E. Zimmermann, "Intuitionistic Modal Propositional Logic".
E. Zimmermann, “Strong Normalization by Means of Natural Deduction".

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A.2 Philosophical logic (non-classical logics, logic and language, foundations of logic).

A. Aliseda and A. Nepomuceno, "Tableaux to Solve Abductive Problems".
J. A. Amor, "A Refinement of the Concept of Axiomatic System".
M. Arndt, "A Strict Interpretation of Frege's Sense".
R. Arpaia, "On a Substructural Logic with Minimal Negation".
E. Badici, "Logical Truth and Extralogical Facts".
D. Batens, "Adaptive Logics of Non-probabilistic Induction".
J.-Y. Béziau, "The Stellar Dodecahedron of Oppositions".
B. Boričić, "Logical Inference and Reliability".
F. Bou, "Quasi-Bisimulation: A New Paradigm for the Strict Implication Language".
K. Britz, I. C. Burger and J. Heidema, "Propositions and Many-valued Worlds".
V. Bulitko, "Logic on Partial Orders".
C. Carretero Gómez, "The Modality of Belief".
C. Chakraborti, "An Alternative Model for Human Deductive Reasoning".
P. Cintula, "Two Notions of Compactness in Gödel's Logics".
P. Cobreros, "Pairs De Re. On a Problem Raised by Aristotle in Posterior Analytics (74a)".
M. A. Cuonzo, "The Usual Suspects: Indeterminacy, Incoherence, and Ignorance as Reasons for Sorites Paradox".
K. De Clercq, "Belief Change: An Inconsistency-adaptive Approach".
L. Dostalova, "Aristotle's Paralogisms".
M. Duzí, "De Dicto/De Re Temporalities vs. Modalities"
M. Duzí and P. Materna, "Attitudes: Intensionality vs. Hyperintensionality".
P. A. Ebert, "A Puzzle about Hume's Principle".
D. Faust, "Privatives and Negations: What Evidence Logic Has to Say about Them".
P. Garbacz, "Monadic Logics of Relative Identity".
A. García-Cerdaña and V. Verdú, "On a Logic without Contraction and without Implication".
L. Goldstein, "Discontent in the Liar Family".
J. Hintikka, "Realizing Hilbert's Project".
A. Karpenko "Characterization of Classes of Natural Numbers by Logical Matrices"
J. T. Kearns, "An Illocutionary Logical Explanation of Conditional Assertions".
S. Kovač, "Belief and Identity of Objects".
J.-L. Lee, "On Gödel's Completeness Theorem".
H. Linneweber-Lammerskitten, "Logical Puzzles -A Suitable Way to Introduce the Notion of Logical Inference?"
T. Litak, "Tense Logics which Are Maximal Consistent, Decidable and as Incomplete as You May Imagine".
L. Maksimova, "Restricted Interpolation and the Projective Beth Property in Equational Logic".
P. Materna, "Temporalized Modalities".
J. Meheus, "An Adaptive Logic for Abduction".
P. Mekis, "The Early Wittgenstein's Logical Notation: A Formal Reconstruction".
D. Miller, "The Fate of the Liar in a Quasi-classical Theory of Truth".
H. More, "Nyaya Treatment of Negation".
A. Nita, "Soundness and Presupposition".
S. P. Odintsov and H. Wansing, "Formal Duality versus Semantical Duality in Constructive Modal Logic".
L. O'Neil and J. Serembus, "Probability Logic: Recent Developments and Resulting Philosophical Considerations".
J. Palomäki, "The Intensional and the Conceptual Content of Concepts".
A.-V. Pietarinen and T. Tulenheimo, "On the Logical and Game-Theoretical Characterization of Dimension".
G. Primiero, "Some Remarks about the Analysis/Synthesis Problem: A New Context for the Notion of Information".
M. Rossberg, "Second-Order Logic as Logic".
V. V. Rybakov, "Temporal-Modal Logic Tomorrow".
J. M. Sagüillo, "What is a Category Mistake?".
Y. Saito, "Deciphering the Logic of Zen".
I. Scheau and I. Todor, "The Axiomatic Formal Logic System from 'Principia Mathematica'".
P. Schroeder-Heister, "Definitional Reflection and Circular Reasoning".
J. H. Serembus, "A New Perspective on Consistency and Validity of Propositional Logic".
Y. Shramko, "The Logic of Scientific Research".
J. Simon, "The Logic of Participation".
D. Skorstov, "An Extension of Quantified Dummett's Logic That Is Complete with Respect to Kripke Sheaves"
H. Slater, "A Short Lesson in Logic".
F. Soler-Toscano, "Representative Functions for Infinite Semantic Tableaux".
R. G. Taylor, "Zermelo's Analysis of Generality".
E. Tomaszewski, "If Distinct Intermediate Logics Share the Same Finite Models, then None of Them Is Locally Tabular".
G. Trela, "Roman Suszko's Metaphilosophy and Metalogics".
M. Urbanski, "Abduction via Synthetic Tableaux".
D. Vakarelov, "Extended Sahlqvist Formulas and Solving Equations in Modal Algebras".
H. van Ditmarsch and B. Kooi, "Unsuccessful Updates".
H. van Ditmarsch and W. Labuschagne, "A Multimodal Language for Revising Defeasible Beliefs".
L. Verhoeven, "The Relevance of a Relevant Disjunction".
J. Vilanova Arias, "Epistemic Circularity in the Knowledge of Logic".
S. Visokolskis, N. Boyallian and M. Camusso, "Normativity and Descriptivity: Where Does Logic Fit in?".
E. Vityaev and I. Khomicheva, "Goodman's Paradox Generalizations".
W.-F. Wang, "A Model-theoretic Argument against Meinongianism and Modal Realism".
A. Wiśniewski, "Socratic Proofs and Erotetic Logic".
J. Woleński, "The Status of T-Equivalences".
W. Xiaolong, "Reconsidering a Fundamental Conception of Many-valued Logic from the Enlightenment of Chinese Zen"

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A.3 Logic and computation (knowledge representation and AI, verification, semantics of programs, interactive proofs, computational linguistics.)

V. Bocharov, A. Bolotov, A. Gorchakov and V. Shangin, "Proof-searching Algorithm in First-Order Classical Natural Deduction Calculus".
J. Cheng, "Deontic Relevant Logic as the Logical Basis for Specifying and Reasoning about Information Security and Assurance".
D. Díaz-Pernil, M. J. Pérez Jiménez and A. J. Ramos Espina, "Molecular Programs as Formal Systems".
M. Sadrzadeh, "Reasoning about Knowledge in Modal Linear Logic".
C. Shushan, "Formal Systems for Illocutionary Force and Its Use in AI".
A. Zalewska, "Proof System of Algorithmic Properties of Programs with Procedures".

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B. General Philosophy of Science

B.1 Methodology: Explanation, causality, and laws; Models, experiment, and theory

J. F. Álvarez, "Bounded Rationality and Philosophy of Science".
S. Álvarez Toledo, " Fundamental Laws and Fundamentalism (About the Dappled World of N. Cartwright).
X. Barandiaran and R. Feltrero, "Conceptual and Methodological Blending in Cognitive Science: The Role of Simulated and Robotic Models in Scientific Explanation".
J. Bentwich, "From Cartesian Logical-empiricism to the 'Cognitive Reality': A Paradigmatic Shift".
R. Bod, "Particularism: A Maximalist View on Theories".
M. Boon, "Science in Technology: Towards a Philosophy of the Engineering Sciences".
F. Broncano and J. Vega, "Representational Media, Translation and Some Recent Forms of Constructivism".
G. Bugajak, "The Controversy over Realism and Methods of the Philosophy of Nature".
V. Butigan, "Methodological Problems of Studying the Post-socialist Transition".
J. Butterfield, "Catastrophe Theory: Some Philosophical Morals".
J. Cachro, "A Unifying Approach to Causal Relata".
D. Calvo, "How Do We Get a Dynamical Model from a Natural Phenomenon?".
B. Chendof, "Logic of Science. A Complex Approach to Foundations of Logic".
H. W. de Regt, "Wesley Salmon's Complementary Thesis: Causalism and Unificationism Reconciled?".
J. de Ridder, "Functional Explanation for Engineers".
K. de Werszowec Rey, "Principia Humanistica".
T. A. Debs, "Objectivity and Invariance: A New Appraisal".
A. Diéguez, "An Inconclusive Confutation: Laudan on Best-Explanation Argument".
J. A. Díez, "The Inductivism of Popper's Antiinductivism".
S. Ducheyne, "The Autonomy of Newton's Models in the 'Principia'".
A. Estany, "Progress in the Design Sciences: The relevance of Praxiology".
L. Fahrbach, "Brute Facts".
L. Flores, "Natural Sciences as Symbolic Systems".
M. Franssen, "Arrow's Theorem and two Prespectives on Multi-Criteria Decision Making".
S. Gayken, "Group Laws".
Y. H. Gunther, "The Phenomenology and Intentionality of Emotion".
B. Gyenis and M. Rédei, "On Causal Closedness od Statistical Theories".
J. Hermoso Durán, "Conceivability, Possiblity, and Pythagoreanism: The Limits of Evolutionary Accounts of Thought-Experiment".
C. Herrera Pérez, "Teleological Explanation in the Sciences of Behaviour".
C. Hitchcock, "Charged Shadows and Conserved Quantities".
H. Inoue, "Hume's Strategy for the Problem of Other Minds".
V. Iranzo, "Circularity, Externalism and Scientific Realism".
J. Jingsong, "Explanation and Interpretation".
G. Kampis, "Causal Depth and the Modal View of Causality".
Ž. Knap, "Popper's Notion of Falsification as a Criterion of Differentiating between Scientific and Other Texts".
T. Knuuttila, "Models as Epistemic Artefacts".
P. Koepke, "Galois Reductions as Basic Structures for Representations".
M. Kuhlmann, "Econophysics and the Possibility of Ontological Reduction".
J. Kuorikoski, "Equilibrium Explanations as Causal Explanations".
G. Küppers, J. Lenhard and H. Lücking, "Simulation: Modelling Models".
I. Kvart, "Probabilistic Cause and Causal Relevance".
J. Lentsch, "The Interaction of Biological and Regulatory Models in the Context of Policy-Making: Electromagnetic Fields Effects and Governance of Risk".
C. Liang, "Wide Cosmological Role".
M. Liz, "Causal Sufficiency".
E. I. Llinás and M. I. González Carella, "The Necessity and the Contingency in the View of Two Scientific Explanation Patterns".
P. Lorenzano, "The Semantic Conception and the Structuralist View of Theories: A critique of Suppe's Critiques".
P. Määttänen, "Experimental Practice and the Problem of Realism".
L. Magnani, "An Abductive Theory of Scientific Reasoning".
E. Mattila, "The Uneasy Relation of Models to Simulations: Case Study on Biometrical Modelling".
A. L. McLaughlin, "The Path of Greatest Resistance: Peirce on Scientific Inquiry"
N. Maxwell, “Does Scientific Method Make Metaphysical Assumptions? Towards a New Conception of Science".
P. Menzies, "Causation in the Void".
D. Mihram and G. A. Mihram, "The Scientific Method Mimes Isomorphically the Established Biological Process for Ensuring Survival".
J. C. Moreno Ortiz, "Some Critics to Kuhnian Position on Incommensurability and Constitution of Meanings in the Scientific Revolution Change".
F. A. Muller, "The Concept of Observability".
P. Müürsepp, "Causality in Postnonclassical Science - A Threat to Rationality?".
L. Näpinen, "The Need for Co-operation between the Human and Physical Understanding of the World".
P. Needham, "Causings: Modifying Davidson's Scheme".
M. Neuber, "Three Forms of 'Semirealism'".
R. Nola, "Ontological Continuity and Optimistic Meta-induction: The Case of the Electron".
S. Paavola, "Abductive Search for Explanations. Semmelweis Researches as an Example".
J. Paruelo and H. Miguel , "Complementarity and Theory Reduction in Scientific Explanation".
I. Perdomo, "The Realist-Empiricist Debate Revisited".
O. Pessoa Jr., "Causal Models Involving Units of Knowledge in the History of Science".
K. Pilorz, "Functional Definitions of Mental Terms and the Problem of Reduction of Psychology".
D. P. Portides, "A Study of Model Construction for the Representation of Nuclear Structure".
H. Pringe, "Kant and Cartwright on Schemata and Models".
W. Quezada Pulido, Determinism and Hidden Powers: The Case of Epidemiology".
H. Radder, "A Critique of the Constructive Empiricist Notion of Observability".
E. Ruttkamp, "Reviewing Reduction in a Preferential Model Theoretic Context".
M. Schabas, "Thought Experiments versus Models in Monetary Economics".
M. J. Shaffer, "Making Sense of the Correspondence Principle".
N. Smaniotto, "The Ontological Status of Experimental Phenomena".
S. G. Sterrett, "The Science of the Similar: How to Get Things out of Proportion".
K. Talmont-Kaminski, "A Naturalist Characterisation of Reasoning Beings".
E. Taseva, "Contexts and Contexts-Mediators".
A. Tucker, "Atomic Explanations of Descriptions of Events".
M. van Dyck, "Constructive Empiricism without Underdetermination".
J. Vega and F. Broncano, "Representation at Work".
P. Wasilewski, "Topological Characterisation of Supervenience".
A. Wayne, "Fundamentalism in Fundamental Physics".
M. J. Wreen, "A Second Form of Argument from Analogy".
J. P. Zamora Bonilla, "The Game Theoretic Logic of Scientific Discovery".

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B.2 Induction, probability and statistics
Induction, statistical inference, learning theory, decision theory.

N. Bostrom, "Anthropic Reasoning and Observation Selection Effects".
L. de Vreese and L. Haesaert, "Applications of the Adaptive Logics for Induction".
R. Festa and C. Buttasi, "Approaching the Statistical Truth by Falsified Generalizations".
M. Friend, "Some Philosophical Concerns about the 'Confidence' in Confident Learning".
N. B. Goethe, "Induction and (Un)computability: Is a 'Confident' Learner a 'Reasonably Good Inductive Judge'?".
P. J. Gutiérrez-Yurrita, "Use and Misuse of Multivariate Statistics to Resolve Ecological Problems in Aquatic Enviroments".
V. S. Harizanov, "Inductive Inference Machines for Mathematical Structures".
R. Holm, "Adjusting Inductive Methods".
L.-G. Johansson, "Naturalising Induction".
T. A. F. Kuipers, "Explicating 'Confimation', 'Induction', 'Empirical Progress', and 'Truth Approximation' by Idealization and Concretization".
L. Leonenko, "Analogies between Texts: How to Appreciate the Structures".
P. Maher, "Reasoning by Analogy in the Ravens and Grue Paradoxes".
A. L. McLaughlin and F. M. Kronz, "A Fast Track to Confirmation: C. S. Peirce on Evidence".
A. Mutanen, "Learning with Positive Information".
W. C. Myrvold, "A Bayesian Account of the Virtue of Unification".
W. C. Myrvold and W. Harper, "Can a Bayesian Account for Objective Resilency?".
M. Peterson, "Transformative Decision Rules and Rival Representations of Decision Problems".
G. Priest and G. Restall, "Envelopes and Indifference".
W. Rabinowicz, "Pragmatic Arguments".
V. Reznikov, The Metrological Conception of Statistics as an Alternative to Standard Frequency Conceptions".
J. W. Romey, "Analogy Reasoning".
J. H. Sobel, "Uncertain Evidence, Problable Modus Ponens, and Conditionalization Generalized".
K. W. Staley, "Robustness and Security".
F. Stephan and J. Case, "Decisive versus U-Shaped Learning".
J. Vallverdú, "Frequentist versus Bayesian: The False Dilemma".
P. Weirich, "Intrinsic Utility".
S. Zwart and M. Franssen, "Verosimilitude, Truthlikeness and Arrows Theorem".

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C. Philosophical Issues of Particular Sciences

C.1 Philosophy of mathematics

J. Alcolea-Banegas, “Mathematical Knowledge and Reflective Equilibrium”.
S. Berkovski, “Mathematical Effectiveness”.
K. Bouzoubaâ Fennane, “Gödel: From a Platonistic to a Phenomenological Elucidation of the Nature of the Mathematical Concepts”.
O. Bueno, “Is Group Theory Indispensable to Quantum Mechanics ?”
S. Costreie, “Leibniz´s Constructivism”.
F. Csaba, “'Princess Margaret Premises' in the Philosophy of Mathematics”.
J. J. da Silva, “Husserl on Symbolic Mathematics”.
J. I. Friedman, “Modalism: An Easy Way to Avoid Ontological Commitmet to Abstract Entities”.
Y. Gauthier, “The Content of Logic: Arithmetic and Its Extensions”.
T. Hyttinen and G. Sandu, “Semantical Arguments and Deflationary Truth”.
I. Jané and G. Uzquiano, “Fregean Extensions and Set Theory”.
D. Jacquette, “Are Irrational Lengths Artifactual?”.
P. Joray, “Neologicism and Lesniewski's Ontology”.
K. F. Joergensen, “Ideal Elements in Mathematics”.
M. Leng, “Naturalism and Linguistics Frameworks: Mathematical Ontology in a post-Quinean Setting”.
Ø. Linnebo, “Frege´s Theorem and Impredicability”.
C. Martínez Vidal, “The View of Logic as Model and the Objectivity of Logic: Are They Compatible?”.
A. Máté, “Árpád Szabó as a Disciple Lakatos?”.
R. Muis, “On Extending Structuralism to Physical Theories”.
F. A. Muller, “The Implicit Definition of the Set-concept”.
Z. Novák, ”Philosophical Naturalism and the Truthmakers of Mathematics”.
M. Ortega de Mues, “On Concepts: K. Gödel Final Approach to E. Husserl Beginnings”.
I. Pallares Vega, "Mathematical Theories and Mathematical Objects".
S. Shapiro, "Unrestricted Quantification, the Burali-Forti Paradox, and the Iterative Hierarchy".
A. Simonyi, “Hilbert´s Program and the Completeness of the First-order Calculus”.

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C.2 Philosophy of the physical sciences

A. Afriat, "The Structure of Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and the Optico-Mechanical Analogy".
J. Bautista Bengoetxea, "On the Dignity of Similarity Concept in Chemistry".
R. C. Bishop, "Rigged Hilbert Space Quantum Mechanics: Time Arrows and Time-reversal".
J. Butterfield, "Mark his Words: Wilson's Philosophical Morals of Classical Physics".
M. Castagnino and O. Lombardi, "Self-induced Selection: Decoherence in Closed System".
J. Collier, "Dynamical Complexity Defeats Laplace's Demon".
R. Dawid, "Scientific Realism in the Age of String Theory".
I. D'Hanis, "Conceptual Change in 17^th and 18^th Century Aether Theories".
M. C. B. Díaz-Pintado, "Double-slit Experiments, Quantum Mechanics Formulations and Semantic Commitment".
D. Dieks, "Perspectivalism in the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics".
M. Dorato, "Relativism Becoming and Simultaneity".
T. Fox, "Heisenberg's Concept of Theory-Dependent Atomism and Recent Views of Effective Field Theories".
C. Garola, "Objectivity and Completeness in Quantum Physics".
S. Hacyan, "Energy-mass as a Form of Intuition".
M. Hemmo and O. Shenker, "The von Neumann Entropy in Collapse and No Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics".
R. F. Hendry, "What Chemical Kinds Have to Do".
G. Hofer-Szabó, "Reichenbachian Common Cause Systems".
A. Kamlah, "Two Explications of 'Operational Definition'".
V. Karakostas, "The Nature of Physical Reality in the Light of Quantum Nonseparability".
F. Kronz, "Continuous Quantities in Quantum Mechanics: Dirac versus von Newmann".
S. Le Bihan, "Against Experimental Metaphysics, toward Experimental Epistemology".
A. L. López Ramos, "The Meaning of Relativity Principle".
M. Lorente, "Causal Spin Networks and the Structure of Space and Time".
I. Ly, "Measurement and Continuity. A Poincareian Argument against Ontological Questions About Physical Theories".
M. Massimi, "Non-defensible Middle Ground for Experimental Realism: ...".
N. Maxwell, “The Problem of Unity of Theory in Physicis and its Solution".
F. A. Muller, "The Structural Landscape of Q.E.D.".
I. L. Muntean, "Time and Quantum Mechanics: The Case of Quantum Clocks".
J. B. Pitts, "Updating Reichenbach on Universal Forces".
L. P. Ponomarenko, "Construction of Magneto-optics Structural Scheme".
H. Price, "Collisions and Correlations - A Confusion Corrected".
A. Rodin, "Endurance, Perdurance, and Chronogeometry".
L. M. Rodríguez, O. Rojo Asenjo and G. Hernández, "Experimental Activity in the Construction of Objectivity: The Case of Electromagnetism".
C. Sánchez Ovcharov, The Redefinition of Planck's Constant".
M. P. Seevinck, "Physical Constraints and Realizability of Quantum Measurements".
S. Smets, "The Place of Quantum Logic in the Landscape of Non-classical Logics".
M. Stölzner, "What Can We Still Learn from the Principle of Least Action?".
M. Suárez, "Quantum Propensities: The Selections Approach".
P. E. Vermaas, "A Proper Description of Artefacts as a Criterion for Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics".
R. Vihalemm, "Is Chemistry a Physical Science, a Physics like Science or Its Own Type of Science?".
W. Wiszniewski, "A Composition of Open Time and Closed Time and Quantum Uncertainty Principle".
H. Zinkernagel, "Cosmology and the Meaning of Time".

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C.3 Philosophy of the biological sciences

M. Adam, "Scientific Models in the Pharmaceutical Industry".
A. Almér, "Are There Natural Functions?"
A. Ambrogi, "Philosophy of Biology: Some Missing Issues".
J. Bentwich, "The 'Duality Principle's' Resolution of the Evolutionary Natural Selection Process".
I. Brigandt, "The Role a Concept Plays in Science -The Case of Homology".
M. Cadevall, "Developmental Genetics: Explanation of Design and Diversity".
W. Callebaut, "Toward a Philosophy of Evo-Devo".
L. Charland, "Is Emotion a Natural Kind?".
Y. Chukova, "New Philosophical Aspect of Thermodynamic Irreversibility of Bioprocesses".
M. Colyvan and L. Ginzburg, "A Second-Order Model of Population Growth".
J. Corcó, "What is Life? From E. Schrödinger to L. Margulis".
A. Etxeberria and T. García-Azkonobieta, "Developmental Constraints and Evo-Devo".
J. Justus, "Scientific Explication and Ecological Stability".
T. Kokkonen, "The Kinds of Altruism".
U. Krohs, "Is Natural Design a Kind of Design?".
A. Latawiec, "Life in the Perspective of Biological Information".
S. Leonelli, "Understanding the Usefulness of Biological Models".
G. E. Martínez and S. La Rocca, "Extent and Boundaries of the Darwinians Evolutionary Paradigm".
B. Nanay, "Is Replication a Philosophically Interesting Concept?".
I. Nyberg, "Model Organisms in Developmental Biology: Problems Revealed in the Case of the South African Clawed Frog Xenopus Laevis".
J. Pykacz, "Computer Viruses and Artifacts -Two Touchstones for Various Definitions of Life".
T. A. C. Reydon, "Some Explorations on the Various Meanings of 'Species'".
R. Sansom, "Evolvability and the Connectionist Theory of Gene Control Networks"
P. Šustar, "A Kantian Strategy for Biological Laws".
J. Umerez, "Semantic Closure. Pattee's Early Contribution to the Debate on the Concept of Genetic Information".
C. S. Varma, "Reductionists Explanations, Hierarchies, and the Unity of the Biological Sciences".

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C.4 Philosophy of the cognitive science and artificial intelligence (including computational perspectives in psychology)

N. Bostrom, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?".
F. Cueto, "Fodor's Nomological Locking Semantics: An Internalist Version".
J. A. De la Rubia Guijarro, "Beyond the Representation: A Critic to Connectionism".
E. Diaz-Leon, "The Property Dualism Argument".
W.-C. Fang, "Embedded Cognition and John Searle's Background".
L. Gurova, "Concepts: False Dilemmas, Neglected Dilemmas".
C. Herrera Pérez, "A Situated Model of Emotion and Its Implementation in Evolutionary Neuro-Robotics".
A. Y. Houng, "A Defense of the Dual Aspect Theory of the Mind".
F. Keijzer, "A Duality or a Multiplicity of Mind?".
E. Machery, "Concepts Are Not a Natural Kind".
O. Markič, "Explanatory Strategies in Cognitive Science".
P. F. Martínez-Freire, "Being Inside: Putting Representation, Body and World Together Again".
F. Martínez-Manrique, "Modularity in Evolutionary Psychology".
D. Mayhew, "Denying the Eliminative Materialist Project".
A.-V. Muresan, "A Program to Draw Up the Concept of Logical Information".
L. Ropolyi, "Theory of Information or Philosophy of Information?"
G. Rotolo, "Action without Representation: Enaction and Embodied Cognition".
L. Schneider, "Computational Metaphysics -Towards a Top-level Ontology for Intelligent Artificial Agents".
P. Schweizer, "Computation Versus Intentional Explanation".
K. Soyhun and J. Seligman, "Rationality and Justification".
M. Sprevak, "In What Sense Could Running an Algorithm Be Constitutive of Mentality?".
M. Tria, "A Note on Sensory: Motor Loops in Intelligent Agents".
A. Wallin, "Strong and Practical Domain-Specificity".
M. Wolski, "A Uniform Approach to Reason About Beliefs in Cognitive Science".
A. Wykowska, "Mental Imagery Debate - The Philosophical Perspective".
K. Zbiec, "The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Game of Life".

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C.5 Philosophy of linguistics

A. M. Andrei, "A Pragmatic Account of Donkey Sentences".
A. Blanco Salgueiro, "Strong Illocutionary Externalism and the Rationality of Speech Acts".
R. Bod, J. Hay and S. Jannedy, "Is There Evidence for a Probabilistic Language Faculty?".
G. N. Carlson, "Linguistics and Behavior".
K. Y. Cheng, "A Dispositional Account of First-person Knowledge in Rule-following".
S. C. Goldberg, "An Anti-individualistic Semantics for 'Empty' Natural Kind Terms".
L. Fernández Moreno, "The Reference of Proper Names and the Notion of Expert".
O. Matal, "Institutional Facts - Speech Acts Theory Approach".
B. C. Scholz, "The Long Shadow of Linguistic Nativism"
L. M. Valdés Villanueva, "On Perry's Relative Truth-Conditions".
J. Vidal, "Eliminativism, Deflationism and Linguistic Competence".
C.-M. Yang, "Williamson on Assertion".

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C.6 Philosophy of the social sciences (including non-computational psychology)

A. Álvarez Rodríguez, "Three Mimetic Theories of Technology".
P. Baert, "Neo-pragmatism as a Philosophy of the Social Sciences".
G. Betz, "Where Are the Limits of Economic Forecasting? A Philosophical Issue of Political Relevance".
W. Christensen, "Self-Directeness, Integration and the Foundations of High Order Cognition"
K. E. Dodson, "On Marxist Narratives and Marx's Metanarrative".
A. García Rodríguez, "Nonconceptual Content, Concept Acquisition and Developmental Psychology".
A Gómez Rodríguez, "The Inexact Laws of Economics and the Rational Choice Theory".
M. R. Hernández Borges, "Principle of Charity, Relativism and Social Sciences".
C. Hidalgo, "The notion of 'Epistemic Cultures'".
F. A. Hindriks, "Rule-Following, Anti-Realism and the Social".
S. Jallais, P.-C. Pradier and D. Teira Serrano, "Experimental Rationality and the Theorizing of Risky Decision Making: Bernoulli, Condorcet, Allais".
T. Knuuttila, "Causality in Economics: The Supply of Money and the Phenomenon of Inflation".
A. Lehtinen, "Interpersonal Comparison Do not Solve Arrow's Impossibility Theorem".
U. Mäki, "Ceteris Paribus: Interpretations and Implications".
A. Malec, "A Formal System of Legal Reasoning".
C. Marchionni, "'Firms Agglomerate because Agglomeration Economics'. Looking for the Missing Mechanism".
A. Marras, "Consciousness and Reduction".
H. Miguel and A. M. Talak, "Laudan and Progress of Psychology".
T. R. Mikhajlova and B. S. Chendov, "On Applications of Logic to Psychology".
B. Mukherjee and A. Mukherjee, "Methodology of Economics: Sen and Cartwight".
T. Ojeda Arceo, "Simulationism and Relativism".
F. Peter, "Towards a Behavioral Economics of Science?".
L. Polos and M. T. Hannan "A Model-Theoretic Approach to Theories in Flux".
M. Rol, "Abstraction by Idealization in Economics".
J. L. Romero Cuadra, "The Political and Epistemological Implications of Instrumentalism in Social Sciences".
D. Ross, "Economics Agents as Sub-personal Entities".
H. B. Schmid, "Explaining the 'Principle of Coordination'. Towards a Non-individualistic Account of Rationality in Action".
M. Steuer, "Valid and Invalid Alternatives to Social Science".
D. Teira Serrano, "Milton Friedman, the Statistical Methodologist".
A. A. van Niekerk, "Democracy, Science and the University".
M. Vázquez and M. Liz, "The 'El Farol Bar' Decision Problem. Some Methodological Consequences".
W. Wei, "Scientific Explanation and Historical Interpretation".
P. Ylikoski, "How Do Social Practices Explain?".
J. P. Zamora Bonilla, "Individualism with Non Individualist Individuals".

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D. Ethical, Social, and Historical Perspectives on Philosophy of Science

D.1 History of logic, methodology, and philosophy of science.
History of the topics covered by the Program of the Congress.

T. Aho, "The Birth of General Modal Logic".
N. Bar-am, "Boole Contra Aristotle".
S. M. Bhave, "Methodology of Indian Mathematics".
A. Blank, "Between Eclecticism and Empiricism: Walter Charleton's Theory of the Generation of Living Beings".
L. Decock, "The Role of Variables in Quine's Logistics".
A. Doninelli, "'Sozein ta Phainomena'. Dialectic Methodology and Science in Aristotle's Natural Works".
C. Dutilh Novaes, "Medieval Modalities Revisited".
A. Facchini, "What Is the Model-Theoretical Problem with Hilbert's Programme?".
S. Gattei, "Karl Popper's Early Inductivist Years".
L. Haaparanta, "Intuitionism and the Phenomenological Concept Intuition".
S. Hutin, "Epistemological Holism and Protocol Sentences: Neurath and Quine".
E. Karavaev, "Rationality of the Normative System and Deontic Logic".
B. Kilinç, "What Were Boole´s Laws of Thought?".
H. König, "The Reception of the Theory of Relativity, as Reflected in Moritz Schlick's Early Correspondence".
T. Korte, "Who Invented the Quantifier?".
H. J. Koskinen, “Quinean Naturalism and the Metaphysical Turn”.
A. Koterski, "How to Be a Critical Rationalist".
A. Marcos, "Towards a Science of the Individual".
J. Marcos, "On the Simple Pleasures of Logic: The Humbug of Many Logical Values".
R. Mirek, "Logic and the Empty Domain"
Z. Monroy-Nasr, "Medieval Semantics and Cartesian Sign Doctrine".
A. Moretti, "How to Extend to n-ary Relations a Non-Standard Graphic Decision Procedure for a Vasil'Evian (Monadic) Conceptualist Logic".
L. Parisoli, "Some Scotist Reasons to Prefer a Non-Classical Logic. On John Duns Scotus' Practical Philosophy".
V. Peckhaus, "The Unknown Zermelo: A Tribute to the 50th Anniversary of his Death".
A. Richardson, "Epistemic Freedom and Rational Control: The Contexts of Reichenbach's Contexts".
A. Siitonen, "Determined by Reason - Determined by Experience. On Reichenbach's Relation to Kantianism and the Trascendental Method".
D. Surowik, "Tense Logics and the Aristotelian Argument on Determinism".
H. Xiang, "Modelling Scientific Debates by Dignaga's Theory of Reasoning".

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D.2 Ethics of science and technology
Ethical problems of scientific research, applied science, and technology.

A. Aberdein, "Definition and Persuasion".
N. Bostrom, "Enhancing Human Capacities: A Transhumanist Ethics of Technology".
A. Casado da Rocha, "Towards an Ethics of Genomic Research: Distinctions on the Nature, Provision, and Ownership of Genetic Information".
J. Crosthwaite, "The Precautionary Principle: Ethical Innovation or Derivation?".
W. Czajkowski, "Democracy in the Information Age: A Case for Meta-theory and Political Epistemology".
J. Echevarria Ezponda and A. Menéndez Viso, "Prudence and Technosciences".
J. Forge, "Group Research and Group Responsibility".
P. P. Kirschenmann, "Ethical Issues of Risky Technologies: Normative Uncertainty".
H. Lacey, "Transgenic Crops: The Structure of the Ethical Controversies".
C. Luetge, "The Internet as a New Challenge for the Implementation of Ethical Norms".
N. Maxwell, “From Knowledge to Wisdom: The Need for a Revolution in the Aims and Methods of Science and the Humanities".
H. Rodríguez, "Risk and the Ethics of Precaution".
L. Riupeng, "Is the Use of Animal Organs for Transplants Morally Acceptable? Debate over the Use of Animals in Xenotrasplantation".

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D.3 Philosophical questions raised by the history and sociology of science

A. Ali Albedah, "Gadamer Visits Kuhn: Kuhn's Linguistic Turn and the Thesis of Incommensurability".
F. Allhoff, "The History of Evolutionary Ethics".
D. Alvargonzález, "Classifying Ideas and Revolutions".
A. Bokulich, "The Dirac-Heisenberg Debate: Is Quantum Theory Open or Closed?".
A. C. Corrêa, C. Cunha and V. Sutilli, "The New Paradigms of the Science and Its Implications in the Evolution and Revolution of the Knowledge".
T. De Mey, "Harvey's Quantitative Argument as a 'Platonic' Thought Experiment".
M. C. Espiñeira Dias and L. Pinguelli Rosa, "A New Policy and Scientific Analysis Paradigm of the Global Warming".
J. M. Esteban Cloquell, "Pragmatism and Logical Positivism in the Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science".
R. Fjelland, "The Importance of Distinguishing Between the 'Contingent' and the 'Necessary' in Science Studies".
A.-S. Godfroy-Genin, "1654-1713: Fifty Years of Stagnation in the History of Modern Probability?"
G. Kutrovátz, "Does Sokal Knock Down Latour? The Legitimacy of Science Studies".
D. L. Lima Filho, "About of the Social Genesis of the Relation Science, Technology and Society".
M. S. Muylaert, M. C. Espiñeira Dias and L. Pinguelli Rosa, "Enviroment and Nature in XXI Century".
S. Richmond, "The Impact of the Debate about the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics on the Problem of Science as Revolutionary or Evolutionary".
R. M. Rodríguez Lareda, "The Growth of Theories, an Organicist View about the History of Science".
K. Rolin, "Why Susan Haack's Criticism of Feminist Epistemology Fails?".
W. Strawiński, "Types of Scientism".
A. Sorreluz Aguinaga, "Representations: Between Science as Knowledge and as Practice".
A. Tucker, "The Epistemic Significance of Consensus".
I. Votsis, "What the History of Science Cannot Teach Us".
K. B. Wray, "Scientific Specialization: A Philosophical Account".

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