Conference: FICTION and IMAGINATION

From Monday 17 June 2019 at 9:30am, to Tuesday 18 June 2019 at 6:30pm

 

 

FINO Graduate Conference (Mind, Language, and Science curriculum) / SIFA Midterm Conference

 

FICTION and IMAGINATION as Grounds for Counterfactual Reasoning, Scientific Modeling, and Thought Experiments

 

 

Sala Rossa

Campus Luigi Einaudi

Lungodora Siena 100

Torino

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

MONDAY 17 JUNE

 

 

9:30 | Gregory CURRIE (University of York) [INVITED TALK]

Fictions as thought experiments

 

 

11:00 | coffee break

 

 

11:30 | Alessandro CAVAZZANA (Università di Venezia, Ca’ Foscari)

The importance of imagination in picture perception: Mental imagery and visual metaphors

 

12:15 | Julien GUSTHIOT (University of Paris 1)

Fiction and non-fiction. Some comments on extreme intentionalism

 

 

13:00 | lunch break

 

 

15:00 | Michal HLADKY (University of Geneva) and Steve HUMBERT-DROZ (University of Fribourg)

Imaginary invalid! Deflating the model bubble

 

15:45 | Malvina ONGARO (Università del Piemonte Orientale)

Narratives and the normativity of the rational agent

 

 

16:30 | coffee break

 

 

17:00 | Deena WEISBERG (Villanova University, Philadelphia) [INVITED TALK]

From fiction to reality: Learning from stories and counterfactual scenarios

 

 

 

TUESDAY 18 JUNE

 

 

9:30 | Mauricio SUAREZ (Complutense University, Madrid) [INVITED TALK]

Scientific representations for thought experiments

 

 

11:00 | coffee break

 

 

11:30 | Rawad EL SKAF (University of Salzburg)

The structure of scientific thought experiments, or an inconsistency revealers and eliminators account

 

12:15 | Peter HAWKE and Tom SHOONEN (ILLC Amsterdam & Arché, St. Andrews)

Are Gettier cases disturbing?

 

 

13:00 | lunch break

 

 

15:00 | Aybüke ÖZGÜN and Tom SHOONEN (ILLC Amsterdam & Arché, St. Andrews)

Modelling the pretense-imagination over time

 

15:45 | Jacopo FRASCAROLI (University of York)

The unprejudiced reader: Fiction and cognitive flexibility

 

 

16:30 | coffee break

 

 

17:00 | Fred KROON (University of Auckland) [INVITED TALK]

Models, fiction, and the problem of the gap

 

 

 

For more info contact the organizers:

 

Carola Barbero (cabarber@unito.it)

Fabrizio Calzavarini (fabrizio.calzavarini@unito.it)

Vincenzo Crupi (vincenzo.crupi@unito.it)

Andrea Iacona (andrea.iacona@unito.it)

Matteo Plebani (matteo.plebani@unito.it)

Alberto Voltolini (alberto.voltolini@unito.it)