Plenary Lectures
and Invited Speakers

Plenary lectures

Rachel Ankeny (University of Adelaide
)
Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
Patricia Blanchette (University of Notre Dame, Indiana
)
Harold Kincaid (University of Cape Town)
Eleanor Knox (King's College, London)
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam & Stanford University)

Special session on CLMPS 2015 conference theme: Models and Modelling

Eleonora Cresto (University of Buenos Aires)
Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki)
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

Models and Empirical Philosophy: A Session in Honor of Patrick Suppes

Introduction by Maria Carla Galavotti (University of Bologna)
Colleen Crangle (Stanford University)
Anne Fagot-Largeault (Collège de France)

International Council for Science (ICSU) special session: Future Earth

Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney)
Gordon McBean (ICSU & University of Western Ontario)
Charlotte Werndl (London School of Economics)

International Council for Science (ICSU) special session: Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment

Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge)
Dov Jaron (ICSU & Drexel University)

International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) Joint Comission session: History of Science, Integrated History and Philosophy of Science

Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge)

 

Invited Sessions on Logic

A1. Mathematical Logic

Veronica Becher (University of Buenos Aires)
Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki)
Philip Welch (Bristol University)

A2. Philosophical Logic

Edwin Mares (Victoria University of Wellington)
Gillian Russell (Washinghton University St Louis)

A3. Computational Logic and Applications of Logic

Sergei Artemov (City University of New York)
Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University)

A4. Historical Aspects of Logic

Paul Thom (University of Sydney)

 

 

Invited Sessions on
General Philosophy of Science

B1. Methodology

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh)
Dean Rickles (University of Sydney)

B2. Formal Philosophy of Science and Formal Epistemology

Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich)
Kevin Zollman (Carnegie Mellon University)

B3. Metaphysical Issues in the Philosophy of Science

Barry Loewer (Rutgers University)
Kerry McKenzie (UC San Diego)

B4. Ethical and Political Issues in the Philosophy of Science

Sang Wook Yi (Hanyang University, Seoul)
Sven Ove Hansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

B5. Historical Aspects in the Philosophy of Science

William Demopoulos (University of Western Ontario)
Maria Carla Galavotti (University of Bologna)

 

 

Invited Sessions on Philosophical Issues of Particular Disciplines

C1. Philosophy of the Formal Sciences

Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney)
Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg)

C2. Philosophy of the Physical Sciences

David Wallace (University of Oxford)

C3. Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney)
Ana Barahona (UNAM, Mexico City)

C4. Philosophy of the Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences

Cameron Buckner (University of Houston)
Zoe Drayson (University of Stirling)

C5. Philosophy of the Humanities and the Social Sciences

Alison Wylie (University of Washington)

C6. Philosophy of the Applied Sciences and Technology

 Mieke Boon (University of Twente)

C7. Philosophy of Medicine

Giovanni Boniolo (University of Milan)

C8. Metaphilosophy

Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)