INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

T. S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
Impact, Relevance and Open Issues

    Thursday 21 August 2008

Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens
Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

University of Athens, Panepistemiou 30, Athens, Greece.
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Program:
Thursday 21 August 2008

Morning Session
10:00 - 11:15 Aristidis Baltas (National
Technical University of Athens): "The Logic of Paradigm Shift"
11:15 -- 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 -- 13:00 Hasok Chang (University College
London): "Incommensurability: Revisiting the Chemical Revolution".

Evening Session
18:00 -- 19:15 Rupert Read (University of East
Anglia, UK): "How far can science determine our
environmental values? An answer, courtesy of Kuhn and Winch".
19:15 -- 19:30 Coffee Break
19:30 -- 20:45 James Conant (University of Chicago): "Kuhn and Nonsense"
Friday 22 August 2008

Morning Session
10:00 - 11:15 Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (Durham
University, UK):: "Evolutionary development of
science and scientific progress. Can evolution lead to the truth?"
11:15 -- 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 -- 13:00 James A. Marcum (Baylor
University, USA): "Systems Biology: A Kuhnian Scientific Revolution?"

Evening Session
18:00 -- 19:15 Theodore Arabatzis (University of
Athens): "Truth and Historical Interpretation:
Kuhn versus the Analytic Philosophical Tradition"
19:15 -- 19:30 Coffee Break
19:30 -- 20:45 Alan Richardson (University of
British Columbia, Canada): "Thomas Kuhn in the
History of Philosophy of Science"
Saturday 23 August 2008
Morning Session
10:00 - 11:15 Vasso Kindi (University of Athens):
"Rules and Novelty. Kuhn's impact outside science"
11:15 -- 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 -- 13:00 Guröl Irzik (Bogasiçi University,
Turkey) & Sibel Irzik (Sabanci University,
Turkey): "Kuhn's impact on literary theory and criticism"

The conference is made possible by funding provided by: The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation Eugenides Foundation