Image: Bastiaan C. van Fraassen
Photographer: Isabelle Peschard
In his will, Dr. Rolf Schock, who died in 1986, specified that half of his estate should be used to fund four prizes in the fields of Logic and Philosophy, Mathematics, the Visual arts and Music. The prizes in Logic and Philosophy and in Mathematics is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and those in the Visual arts and Music by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music respectively.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy to Bastiaan C. van Fraassen, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, “for developing a compelling empiricist account of scientific reasoning that moved decisively beyond logical empiricism, profoundly influenced contemporary philosophy of science and shaped the scientific realism debate.”
Program
12:30 Welcome address by a representative of KVA
12:35 Introduction by the organising committee
12:40 Bas van Fraassen
Empiricism: Voices from the Past
13:50 Coffee break
14:10 Kyle Stanford
Turtles All The Way Down: Constructively Interpreting Bas van Fraassen’s The Scientific Image
15:05 Hans Halvorson
Er musste das Wissen aufheben: van Fraassen on the priority of the manifest image
16:00 Coffee break
16:20 Michela Massimi
Models as inferential blueprints and windows on reality. Variations on a Fraassen theme
17:15 James Ladyman
Science, Empiricism and Belief
18:10 End of symposium
The event is free of charge and open to the public, but registration is required for all participants.
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