June 14, 2022 – Hiphis Conference: "Models and Realities, Contributions from Philosophy and the History of Chemistry"
Tuesday, June 14,2022, from5:30 p.m. to7:30 p.m.,UM Polytech, Peytavin lecture hall, free admission
(Triolet campus, building 31) + hybrid Zoom (to receive the link)
Jean-Pierre Llored
Historian and philosopher of chemistry, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Humanities at École Centrale Casablanca (Morocco) and CentraleSupélec Paris-Saclay | Associate Researcher at the Gilles-Gaston Granger Center (Aix-Marseille) and IDHES ENS-Paris-Saclay
Abstract:
Using examples illustrating the design and use of models in chemistry, I will show how this work involves a scenario with three participants (whole-parts-environment) rather than two (whole and parts), while assuming the mutual dependence of transformations and chemical bodies. By emphasizing the constitutive role of modes of intervention and the environment in the definition, which is always open and provisional, of what chemists say they are dealing with, I will then show that modeling does not only concern the mathematical treatment of experimental results, but also its practical implementation. To do this, I will 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 paribus in a framework of scientific practices where relational properties prevail, which will allow us to make another link between models and realities.
Keywords:holism; reductionism; model; data; affordances; ceteris paribus; environment.
Jean-Pierre Lloreda isa lecturer in social sciences and humanities at the École Centrale de Casablanca and is affiliated with the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the École CentraleSupélec (Paris-Saclay). A chemist by training, with an agrégation in chemistry, he holds a master's degree and a doctorate in philosophy (Université Libre de Bruxelles, supervised by Isabelle Stengers) and a doctorate in epistemology and the history of science and technology (École Polytechnique, supervised by Michel Bitbol). He is qualified to supervise research in the history of science and technology and in philosophy (Aix-Marseille University). He is a visiting scholar at Linacre College, Oxford University, and is deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Foundations of Chemistry.
Upcoming HiPhiS conferences(locations and details to be confirmed as soon as possible)
(see online:https://epistemologie.umontpellier.fr/hiphis/conferences.html)
–Tuesday, July 5, 2022: Gilles Zémor, Prof. Bordeaux University: Foundations of quantum computing
–Tuesday, October 4, 2022: Luc Heuschling, Prof. Luxembourg University: To what extent (and for what purposes) do legal scholars need "models" to reflect on the "reality" of law?
–Tuesday, October 25, 2022: Ana Palacios, Astronomer, University of Montpellier (astrophysics / title not yet announced)
–Tuesday, November 15, 2022: Valeria Giardino, C.R. CNRS, ENS Paris Institut J.-Nicod (philosophy of mathematics / title not yet announced)
HiPhiS contacts: Delphine Bellis (delphine.bellis@univ-montp3.fr) / Laurent Boiteau (laurent.boiteau@umontpellier.fr) / Viviane Durand-Guerrier (viviane.durand-guerrier@umontpellier.fr)
