International Workshop on
Interdisciplinarity and Philosophy of Science
Science has always been an interdisciplinary pursuit, but a number of (sometimes unrelated) factors seem to be increasing the pace at which interdisciplinarity is required in science. These factors can be endogenous, like the increasing complexity of experiments, or exogenous, like advances in the potential of digital technologies. Interdisciplinarity presents interesting challenges and opportunities for scientists, and many philosophers of science are now helping scientists to explore these. To do this, philosophers of science are finding it increasingly necessary to become more interdisciplinary themselves. In the process, they are presented with some of the same challenges and opportunities faced by scientists. This workshop will reflect on the increasing interdisciplinarity of both science and its study.
Workshop Information
DAY 1
Speaker: Nancy Nersessian
Regents’ Professor of Cognitive Science (Emerita), Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Associate in Psychology, Harvard University
Date: December 6th, Monday, 8:00-11:00
Schedule:
8:00-9:40 Talk
9:40-9:50 Break Time
9:50-11:00 Conversation
Discussants (in alphabetical order):
Yin Chung Au
Assistant Professor, Department of History, National Cheng Kung University
Ruey-Lin Chen
Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University
Sharon Ku
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering & Society, University of Virginia
Ying-Tung Lin
Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Min-Jung Cheng
Graduate Student, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, NYCU
Yun-Ying Kuo
Graduate Student, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, NYCU
Meng-Yun Hsu
Graduate Student, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, NYCU
Ming-Guan Lai
Graduate Student, Graduate Program of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, NYCU
Wei-Ting Hung
Undergraduate Student, Department of Computer Science, NYCU
DAY 2
Speaker: Catherine Herfeld
Assistant Professor of Social Theory and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Zurich
Date: December 7th, Tuesday, 17:00-20:00
Schedule:
17:00-18:20 Talk
18:20-18:30 Break Time
18:30-20:00 Conversation
Discussants (in alphabetical order):
Yin Chung Au
Assistant Professor, Department of History, National Cheng Kung University
Hsiang-Ke Chao
Professor & Associate Chairman, Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University
Ruey-Lin Chen
Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University
Sharon Ku
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering & Society, University of Virginia
Ying-Tung Lin
Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
DAY 3
Roundtable Discussion: The Future of Interdisciplinary Philosophy
Hosts:
Karen Yan
Associate Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Mike Stuart
Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Panelists:
Sabina Leonelli
Professor of Philosophy and History of Science, Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter
Miles MacLeod
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente
Sophie Ritson
Casual Academic, University of Melbourn
Date: December 8th, Wednesday, 17:00-20:00
Schedule:
17:10-17:30 Sabina Leonelli
17:30-17:50 Miles MacLeod
17:50-18:10 Sophie Ritson
18:10-18:30 Break
18:30-20:00 Discussion
Discussants (in alphabetical order):
Yin Chung Au
Assistant Professor, Department of History, National Cheng Kung University
Hsiang-Ke Chao
Professor & Associate Chairman, Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University
Ruey-Lin Chen
Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University
Lynn Chiu
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Vienna
Catherine Herfeld
Assistant professor of Social Theory and Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the University of Zurich
Jonathon Hricko
Associate Professor, Education Center of Humanities and Social Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Sharon Ku
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering & Society, University of Virginia
Chia-Hua Lin
Post-Doc, Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University
Ying-Tung Lin
Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Workshop Reading List:
Nersessian, N. J. (2019). Interdisciplinarities in action: Cognitive ethnography of bioengineering sciences research laboratories. Perspectives on Science, 27(4), 553–581. https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00316
Osbeck, L. M., & Nersessian, N. J. (2017). Epistemic identities in interdisciplinary science. Perspectives on Science, 25(2), 226–260. https://doi.org/10.1162/POSC_a_00242
Herfeld, C., & Doehne, M. (2019). The diffusion of scientific innovations: A role typology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 77, 64–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.12.001
MacLeod, M. (2018). What makes interdisciplinarity difficult? Some consequences of domain specificity in interdisciplinary practice. Synthese, 195(2), 697–720. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1236-4
MacLeod, M., & van der Veen, J. T. (2020). Scaffolding interdisciplinary project-based learning: A case study. European Journal of Engineering Education, 45(3), 363–377. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2019.1646210
Nersessian, Nancy and MacLeod, Miles (2021) Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science.
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/19798/
Speakers’ Websites:
Nancy Nersessian
https://mbb.harvard.edu/people/nancy-nersessian
www.cc.gatech.edu/~nersessian
Catherine Herfeld
https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/suz/en/institute/aboutus/professors/herfeld.html
Sabina Leonelli
https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/leonelli/
Miles MacLeod
https://people.utwente.nl/m.a.j.macleod?tab=research
Sophie Ritson
https://www.sophieritson.com/
Sponsored by
Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, NYCU