Salzburg-Vienna Workshop:
Analogies, external validity and the future of experimental modeling across sciences
December 4 – December 5, 2025
Place: Marietta-Blau-Saal
University of Vienna – Main Building
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna
https://event.univie.ac.at/en/venue-management/locations-and-rooms/main-building-of-the-university-of-vienna/event-rooms/marietta-blau-saal-hall/
The Website can be found here: https://viennaanalogiesworkshop.wordpress.com/about/
Registration: If you would like to attend the workshop either in person or online, please send an email an Florian Kolowrat at florian.kolowrat@univie.ac.at. In the email, explain in one or two sentences your motivation for attending the workshop and your affiliation. There are limited places and students and researches working on relevant topics will be given priority.
Thursday 4th
9:30-10:00: Reception and coffee
Analogies and experimental modeling across sciences
10:00-11:00 Francesco Nappo: Analogy and the problem of justification
11:00-12:00 Giovanni Valente: Analogy at Work
12:00-14:00 Lunch
Analogies and surrogate reasoning in biomedical sciences
14:00-15:00 Luca Ferraro: Beyond the Animal Model: Rethinking Analogy and Simulation in Biomedical Research
15:00-16:00 Jon Williamson: Evidential Pluralism as a framework for considering modelling studies in systematic reviews
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
The role of analogies in social and biological sciences
16:30-17:30 Margarida Hermida: Analogy, homology, and universality in biology
17:30-18:30 Mirta Galesic/Henrik Olsson: Analogies for belief dynamics
19:00 Conference dinner
Friday 5th
Universality and experimental modelling in physical and social sciences
9:00-10:00 Antonio Ferreiro . Unifying Quantum Theory and Gravity Through Experiments
10:00-11:00 Karim Thébault. Universality, Autonomy, and Closed System Models in the Physical and Social Sciences
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Mike Stuart. There’s no baby in that bathwater: Rejecting veritism for philosophy of science
12:30-14:30 Lunch
Analogies and model transfer
14:30-15:30 Mauricio Suarez “Modelling Science: James Clerk Maxwell on Analogy’’
15:30-16:30 Andrea Loettgers/Tarja Knuuttila: Magnetic Memories: Analogies and Templates in Model Transfer.
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Panel discussion: The present and future of experimental modeling across sciences (all participants, moderated by Patricia Palacios)
