[PHILOS-L] [Call for registration] Workshop: Philosophical and Technological Reflections on Contemporary Cosmology

[Andrés E. Vázquez-Quijano]

Online Workshop: Philosophical and Technological Reflections on Contemporary Cosmology

January 28, 29 & 30, 2025

Via Zoom

Previous registration required: https://forms.gle/u7qDtzba6AMUe7gn8

This workshop aims to open interdisciplinary dialogue on: the role and status of different kinds of evidence, the evaluativeness of cosmological theories, the status of cosmological entities, formal approaches to reasoning in cosmology and the status of cosmology as a science.

>>> Schedule:

January 28, 2025

• [15:30-17:00 UTC ∥ 09:30-11:00 MX]  Keynote Talk: “Breaking Paradigms: The ‘Cosmological Constant’ Is Not Constant”
  Axel de la Macorra (UNAM)
• [17:00-17:50 UTC ∥ 11:00-11:50 MX]  “The Use of Bohmian Mechanics in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology Contexts”
  Víctor García (UNAM)
  
  
• [17:50-18:00 UTC ∥ 11:50-12:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
  
  
• [18:00-18:50 UTC∥ 12:00-12:50 MX]  “On the Viability of Primitive Ontology for Cosmological Theories”
  Aaron Collavini (University of Udine, Italy)
• [18:50-19:40 UTC // 12:50 -13:40 MX]  “Kinematic Space as a Candidate for a Non-Structuralist Notion of Time Emergence”
  Esteban Céspedes (Catholic University of Maule, Chile)
  

January 29, 2025

• [15:30-17:00 UTC ∥ 09:30-11:00 MX]  Keynote Talk: “Modeling the Milky Way”
  Siska de Baerdemaeker (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• [17:00-17:50 UTC ∥ 11:00-11:50 MX]  “Ad hoc Modifications vs. Epistemic Reliability: The Dark Matter’s Case”
  Andrés E. Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
  
  
• [17:50-18:00 UTC ∥ 11:50-12:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
  
  
• [18:00-18:50 UTC∥ 12:00-12:50 MX]  “Observation from Within”
  Konstantinos Voukydis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
• [18:50-19:40 UTC // 12:50 -13:40 MX]  “Reanalysing Black Hole Images: Algorithmic Reconstruction, Human Judgement and Epistemic Critique”
  Paula Muhr (Brand University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
  

January 30, 2025

• [15:30-17:00 UTC ∥ 09:30-11:00 MX]  Keynote Talk: “Abandoning the Spacetime-Matter Dichotomy in Astronomy and Cosmology”
  Niels Martens (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
• [17:00-17:50 UTC ∥ 11:00-11:50 MX]  “Quantifying Epistemic Distance: From Skepticism to a Conditional Structural Trust in Post-Empirical Physics via a Weighted Aggregate Model”
  Alessandro Spizzico (University of Italian Switzerland, Switzerland)
  
  
• [17:50-18:00 UTC ∥ 11:50-12:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
  
  
• [18:00-18:50 UTC∥ 12:00-12:50 MX]  “Rethinking Cosmology in a Digital Era Phenomenologies of Cosmology in a Big Data Era”
  Mariana Cerca (Sorbonne University, France)
• [18:50-19:40 UTC // 12:50 -13:40 MX]  “Can Opaque Instruments Decide Between ΛCDM and MOND? Reflections on the Effects of Epistemic Opacity and Disruptive Technologies in Theory Choice”
  María Martínez-Ordaz (Institute of Philosophy -Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia)

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