6th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg conference on
MODELS AND DECISIONS
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
10-12 April 2013
http://www.lmu.de/ModelsAndDec
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Mathematical and computational models are central to decision-making in a wide-variety of contexts in science and policy: They are used to assess the risk of large investments, to evaluate the merits of alternative medical therapies, and are often key in decisions on international policies – climate policy being one of the most prominent examples. In many of these cases, they assist in drawing conclusions
from complex assumptions. While the value of these models is undisputed, their increasingly widespread use raises several philosophical questions: What makes scientific models so important? In which way do they describe, or even explain their target systems? What makes models so reliable? And: What are the imports, and the limits, of using models in policy making? This conference will bring together philosophers of science, economists, statisticians and policy makers to discuss these
and related questions. Experts from a variety of field will exchange first-hand experience and insights in order to identify the assets and the pitfalls of model-based decision-making. The conference will also address and evaluate the increasing role of model-based research in scientific practice, both from a practical and from a philosophical point of view.
We invite submissions of extended abstracts of 1000 words by 15 December 2012. Decisions will be made by 15 January 2013.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Luc Bovens (LSE), Itzhak Gilboa (Paris and Tel Aviv),
Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck), Michael Strevens (NYU), and Claudia Tebaldi (UBC)
ORGANIZERS: Mark Colyvan, Paul Griffiths, Stephan Hartmann, Kaerin
Nickelsen, Roland Poellinger, Olivier Roy, and Jan Sprenger
PUBLICATION: We plan to publish selected papers presented at the
conference in a special issue of a journal or with a major a book
publisher (subject to the usual refereeing process). The submission
deadline is 1 July 2013. The maximal paper length is 7000 words.
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS: A few travel bursaries for graduate students are
available (up to 500 Euro). See the website for details.
MODELS AND DECISIONS
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
10-12 April 2013
http://www.lmu.de/ModelsAndDec
******************************
Mathematical and computational models are central to decision-making in a wide-variety of contexts in science and policy: They are used to assess the risk of large investments, to evaluate the merits of alternative medical therapies, and are often key in decisions on international policies – climate policy being one of the most prominent examples. In many of these cases, they assist in drawing conclusions
from complex assumptions. While the value of these models is undisputed, their increasingly widespread use raises several philosophical questions: What makes scientific models so important? In which way do they describe, or even explain their target systems? What makes models so reliable? And: What are the imports, and the limits, of using models in policy making? This conference will bring together philosophers of science, economists, statisticians and policy makers to discuss these
and related questions. Experts from a variety of field will exchange first-hand experience and insights in order to identify the assets and the pitfalls of model-based decision-making. The conference will also address and evaluate the increasing role of model-based research in scientific practice, both from a practical and from a philosophical point of view.
We invite submissions of extended abstracts of 1000 words by 15 December 2012. Decisions will be made by 15 January 2013.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Luc Bovens (LSE), Itzhak Gilboa (Paris and Tel Aviv),
Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck), Michael Strevens (NYU), and Claudia Tebaldi (UBC)
ORGANIZERS: Mark Colyvan, Paul Griffiths, Stephan Hartmann, Kaerin
Nickelsen, Roland Poellinger, Olivier Roy, and Jan Sprenger
PUBLICATION: We plan to publish selected papers presented at the
conference in a special issue of a journal or with a major a book
publisher (subject to the usual refereeing process). The submission
deadline is 1 July 2013. The maximal paper length is 7000 words.
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS: A few travel bursaries for graduate students are
available (up to 500 Euro). See the website for details.
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