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Inconsistency in Factual Science (Creativity 2019)

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Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre (UNMSM, Perú)

Creativity 2019 (8-13 December), First World Congress of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy, in honour of Newton C. A. da Costa’s 90th Birthday.
  • Francisco Doria (UFRJ, BR)
  • Paul Femenia (UNSJ, AR)
  • Ingolf Max (AML, DE)
  • Daniele Mundici (UniFI, IT)

Submissions deadline: Saturday 21 August 2019

Notification of acceptance/rejection: Saturday 14 September 2019

Event: Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

English

The costs for participating of the event Creativity 2019 and for certificates can be consulted in its official website.

Introduction

Traditional philosophy has always rejected inconsistency on the grounds of the ex contradictione quodlibet (ECQ) logical principle. Since any proposition would follow from a contradiction by ECQ, an inconsistent science would be uninformative and useless. Paraconsistent logics, by restricting ECQ, make it possible that at least some inconsistent science be not useless in this sense. Moreover, authors like da Costa and Priest have even defended the possibility of corroborating contradictory propositions about the world. In the workshop Inconsistency in Factual Science (IiFS) we will discuss the problem that inconsistency poses to factual/empirical science, and what would it mean to accept inconsistent science. This includes the three types of inconsistency outlined by Gotesky, Bartelborth and Priest: i.e. inconsistencies (i) between a theory and data, (ii) between two different theories, and (iii) internal to a theory.

Call for abstracts

We invite contributed talks on any topic relevant to the study inconsistency in factual science, including, but not limited to:

  • Historical or logical studies of (allegedly) inconsistent factual theories
  • Historical or logical studies of (allegedly) inconsistent technical or formal theories with applications to factual science
  • The logical possibility of inconsistent factual theories
  • The problem of testing inconsistent factual theories
  • Acceptance and rejection of inconsistent factual theories
  • Types of inconsistency in factual science

Send a one page abstract to luis.bartolo@unmsm.edu.pe by 31 August 2019
with subject creativity:abstract. Indicate your name, title of the contribution and affiliation in the email body.

IiFS in Creativity
IiFS in PhilEvents

Programme

List
Introduction
Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre (UNMSM)
09:30-09:45

A Map of the Research on Inconsistency in Factual Science

Video
Paper
Keynote Talk
María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz (UNAM/UFRJ)
09:45-10:30

The Ignorance Behind Inconsistency Toleration

Contributed Talks
Francisco Doria (UFRJ)
10:30-11:00

Incompleteness in Empirical Sciences

Ingolf Max (AML)

11:30-12:00

Types of Inconsistencies in Multi-Dimensional Logics and a Linguistic Application

Paul Femenia (UNSJ)

12:00-12:30

Determination of Inconsistency of a Search Engine through the Amount of Entries

Daniele Mundici (UniFI)

12:30-13:00

Consistent and Inconsistent Probability

Keynote Talk

Andrés Bobenrieth (UV, Chile)

14:30-15:15

Talking about whether the world is contradictory or not is, at least, a categorical mistake: Bases for an antirealistic stand about inconsistencies

Poster

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