{"id":1373,"date":"2021-11-15T00:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2021-22-session-11-2\/"},"modified":"2021-11-15T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:58:20","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2021-22-session-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2021-22-session-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2021-22, Session 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientific Fictional Properties and Their Explanatory Power<\/strong><br \/>\nVera Matarese (University of Bern)<\/p>\n<p>19 November 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 GMT) | Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> According to what I call the \u201corthodox view\u201d, we should grant the existence of scientific properties like mass, charge, spin, because they have explanatory power. Without them, indeed, we would be unable to explain particle trajectories. In this talk, I will articulate a \u201cfictionalist view\u201d that regards these properties to be mere scientific fictions. Fictionalists have two options. The first is to deny, like Super-Humeans, that scientific properties have explanatory power. The second is to admit that they have explanatory power, but deny that, in virtue of this, we should grant them existence. I will take this second route. The challenge will then be to clarify how fictional properties can be explanatorily powerful without being part of our ontology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The room has a limited number of seats. Pre-registration is required at &lt;c.filosofia@letras.ulisboa.pt&gt; until a day before the event. Note that this is an in-person event and everyone should wear a mask.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Fictional Properties and Their Explanatory Power Vera Matarese (University of Bern) 19 November 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 GMT) | Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: According to what I call the \u201corthodox view\u201d, we should grant the existence of scientific properties like mass, charge, spin, because they have explanatory power. Without them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}