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last update: November 28, 2015

 

SATURDAY 5
Chair Paisley Livingston
2:00 Greetings:
Hans-Georg Moeller (Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme, FAH)
2:10 Frederick Kroon: Fictionalism and the Lure of Surrogacy
3:10 Alberto Voltolini: How to Vindicate (Fictional) Creationism
4:10-4:30 Coffee Break
Chair Teresa Marques
4:30 Daniel Dohrn: Can Imagination Provide Evidence for Possibility?
5:05 Nevia Dolcini: Knowledge and the Imagination of (Actualized) Possibilities
5:40 Marion Renauld: Could imagining make possible the impossible?
6:15 Daniel Hutto: Overly enactive imagination? Imagining the unimaginable
SUNDAY 6
Chair Marco J. Nathan
9:00 Manuel García-Carpintero:  Norms of Fiction-Making: the Fictionality of Films
10:00 Enrico Terrone: Imagination, Film Experience, and Three Meanings of ‘Seeing’
10:35-10:50 Coffee Break
Chair Nevia Dolcini
10:50 Mikael Pettersson: Doing Aesthetics with Eyes Shut: On Thought Experiments in Aesthetics, Acquaintance, and Quasi-observation
11:50 Sören Häggqvist: Thought Experiments, Fiction, and Free Logic
00:25-2:30 Lunch Break
Chair Daniel Hutto
2:30 Lorenzo Magnani: Fictionalism as an Epistemological Epidemic: Epistemology, Cognitive Niche Construction, and Scientific Warfare
3:05 Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira: Scientific Models: Against Fictionalism and Representationalism
3:40 Marco J. Nathan: ‘Fiction Science’
4:15-4:30 Coffee Break
Chair Frederik Kroon
4:30 Teresa Marques: Pejoratives: How the Analogy with Fiction Breaks Down
5:05 Hans-Georg Moeller: On the Philosophical Function of Humorous Fiction in the Zhuangzi
5:40 Anika Fiebich: How We Make the Social World: Cultural Niche Construction and the Example of Fictional Bedtime Stories
6:15 Paisley Livingston: Fiction Fiction