The final program for our workshop on “Surrogate Reasoning in Philosophy and Science” at the Australian National University is now set:
Monday, 16 August
9:30-9:45 Coffee, Introduction and Welcome
9:45-11:15
Daniel Nolan: “Epistemological Advantages and Disadvantages for Fictionalism”
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:45
John Matthewson: “Why the Dispute Over Model Ontology is Largely Verbal, and how We Ought to Resolve It”
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30
Magdalena Balcerak Jackson: “Thought Experiments and Models”
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00-17:30
Mark Colyvan: “Idealisations in Normative Models”
17:30-18:30 General Discussion; Daniel Stoljar and Brendan Balcerak Jackson discussants
Tuesday, 17 August
9:45-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:30
Chris Pincock: “Representation via Concrete and Abstract Models”
11:30-11:45 Coffee
11:45-13:15
Michael Weisberg: “Getting Serious About Similarity”
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00
Kit Fine: “Models for Collective Intention”
16:00-16:30 Afternoon Tea
16:30-18:00 General Discussion; Peter Godfrey-Smith and David J. Chalmers, discussants
No advance registration is required. All talks will take place at the Centre for European Studies, 1 Liversidge Street in Canberra.

