CFP: 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop
Daniel Kostic
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Annual Workshop
We are pleased to announce that the program of the upcoming 8th annual Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) workshop is now available:
https://sure-workshop.weebly.com/current-workshop.html
The workshop is in-person only, and it will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, The Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN) in Warsaw.
Keynote speakers
Magdalena Małecka (University of Copenhagen)
On representing decision-making in economics and behavioral science.
Iconoclastic lessons from integrated history and philosophy of science & philosophy of science in practice
Igor Douven (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Discovering Sources of Crowd Wisdom via Symbolic Search
(joint work with Nikolaus Kriegeskorte)
Panelists:
Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland & Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)
Alfredo Vernazzani (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Workshop description
Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Despite the fact that how a phenomenon is represented has far-reaching ramifications for how it is understood, the literatures on scientific understanding and scientific representation are largely independent of each other. The time is ripe to foster greater synergy between these two areas in the philosophy of science, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions. For more information about the workshop series, please visit: https://sure-workshop.weebly.com/about.html
Local Organizing Committee
Daniel Kostić, Anna Martin, and Marcin Miłkowski
Dr Daniel Kostic
Associate Professor
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology | Polish Academy of Sciences
Donders Centre for Neuroscience | Radboud University
Faculty of Philosophy | Theoretical Philosophy | University of Groningen
Web: daniel-kostic(dot)weebly(dot)com
E-mail: daniel (dot) kostic (at) gmail (dot) com
Tel.: +33 (0) 7 68 89 02 95
+31 (0) 6 25 08 70 01
Recent articles:
Kostic, D. and Khalifa, K. (2025). “Does Functional Connectivity Explain?” Synthese, 206:207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05296-w
Barman, K. G., Caron, S., Sullivan, E., de Regt, H. W., de Austri, R. R., Boon, M., Färber, M., Fröse, S., Golling, T., Lopez, L. G., Hasibi, F., Heinrich, L., Ipp, A., Kapoor, R., Kasieczka, G., Kostic, D., Krämer, M., Marco, J., Otten, S., Pawlowski, P., Vischia, P., Weber, E., Weniger, C. (2025). “Large physics models: towards a collaborative approach with large language models and foundation models”. European Physical Journal C, 85:1066. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14707-8
Kostic, D. (2024). “On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Non-causal Explanations”. Philosophy of Science, 91(5), 1078–1088. doi:10.1017/psa.2023.114
Kostic, D., Halffman, W. (2023). “Mapping Explanatory Language in Neuroscience”. Synthese, 202, 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04329-6