June 14, 2022 - Hiphis conference: "Models and realities, contributions from the philosophy and history of chemistry".
Tuesday, June 14, 2022from 5:30to7:30 pm,UM Polytech, amphi Peytavin, free admission
(Triolet campus, building 31) + hybrid Zoom(to receive the link)
Jean-Pierre Llored
Historian and philosopher of chemistry, Senior Lecturer in SHS at École Centrale Casablanca (Morocco) and CentraleSupélec Paris-Saclay | Associate Researcher Centre Gilles-Gaston Granger (Aix-Marseille) and IDHES ENS-Paris-Saclay
Abstract:
On the basis of examples illustrating the design and use of models in chemistry, I will show how this work involves a three-participant scenario (all-parts-medium) rather than a two-participant scenario (all and parts), while assuming the mutual dependence of transformations and chemical bodies. Insisting on the constitutive role of the modes of intervention and the environment in the definition, always open and provisional, of what chemists say they are dealing with, I will then show that modeling concerns not only the mathematical treatment of experimental results, but also their practical realization. To do this, I'll take the example of the manufacture of the reference matrix for the quantification of endocrine disruptors in analytical chemistry. Finally, the presentation will question the meaning of the clauseceteris paribusin a framework of scientific practices where relational properties prevail, thus making another link betweenmodelsandrealities.
Keywords:holism; reductionism; model; data; affordances; clauseceteris paribus; milieu.
Jean-Pierre Lloredisa lecturer in SHS at the École Centrale de Casablanca and is attached to the SHS Department at École CentraleSupélec (Paris-Saclay). Trained as a chemist and agrégé de chimie, he holds a master's degree and doctorate in philosophy (Université Libre de Bruxelles, dir. Isabelle Stengers) and a doctorate in epistemology and the history of science and technology (École Polytechnique, dir. Michel Bitbol). He is qualified to direct research in the history of science and technology and in philosophy (Aix-Marseille University). He is a visiting fellow at Linacre College, Oxford University, and associate editor of the journal Foundations of Chemistry.
Upcoming HiPhiS conferences(locations and details to be specified as soon as possible)
(see online:https://epistemologie.umontpellier.fr/hiphis/conferences.html)
- Tuesday5July 2022: Gilles Zémor, Prof. Univ. Bordeaux :Foundations of quantum computing
- Tuesday4October 2022: Luc Heuschling, Prof. Univ. Luxembourg :To what extent (and for what purposes) do legal scientists need "models" to reflect on the "reality" of law?
-TuesdayOctober25, 2022: Ana Palacios, Astronomer Univ. Montpellier (astrophysics / title not given)
- Tuesday,November15, 2022: Valeria Giardino, C.R. CNRS, ENS Paris Institut J.-Nicod (maths philosophy / title not given)
HiPhiS contacts: Delphine Bellis(delphine.bellis@univ-montp3.fr) / Laurent Boiteau(laurent.boiteau@umontpellier.fr)/ Viviane Durand-Guerrier(viviane.durand-guerrier@umontpellier.fr)
