2026 Workshop: Philosophical and Technological Reflections on Contemporary Cosmology

Online Workshop: Philosophical and Technological Reflections on Contemporary Cosmology

2026 Workshop:
Philosophical and Technological Reflections on Contemporary Cosmology

January 28 - 30, 2026  (registration is required)

 

registration is required

 

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  •   Wednesday January 28th  
     
  • [15:30-17:00 UTC ∥ 09:30-11:00 MX]  Keynote Talk: “Breaking Paradigms: The ‘Cosmological Constant’ Is Not Constant” Axel de la Macorra (UNAM)


 

 

 

  • [17:00-17:50 UTC ∥ 11:00-11:50 MX]  The Use of Bohmian Mechanics in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology Contexts”  Víctor E. García-Barroso

 

 

 

  • [17:50-18:00 UTC ∥ 11:50-12:00 MX] MINI-BREAK

 

  • [18:00-18:50 UTC∥ 12:00-12:50 MX]  On the Viability of Primitive Ontology for Cosmological Theories” Aaron Collavini 



 

 

 

  • [18:50-19:40 UTC // 12:50 -13:40 MX]  Kinematic Space as a Candidate for a Non-Structuralist Notion of Time Emergence” Esteban Céspedes

 

 

 

 

 

  •   Thursday January 29th.  
  • [15:30-17:00 UTC ∥ 09:30-11:00 MX]  Keynote Talk: “Modeling the Milky Way" Siska de Baerdemaeker (Stockholm University, Sweden)
     


 

 

 

  • [17:00-17:50 UTC ∥ 11:00-11:50 MX]  “Ad hoc Modifications vs. Epistemic Reliability: The Dark Matter’s Case” Andrés E. Vázquez-Quijano 

  • [17:50-18:00 UTC ∥ 11:50-12:00 MX] MINI-BREAK

  • [18:00-18:50 UTC∥ 12:00-12:50 MX]  “Observation from Within” Konstantinos Voukydis 

 

 

  • [18:50-19:40 UTC // 12:50 -13:40 MX]  “Reanalysing Black Hole Images: Algorithmic Reconstruction, Human Judgement and Epistemic Critique” Paula Muhr 

 

 

  •   Friday January 30th  

  • [15:30-17:00 UTC ∥ 09:30-11:00 MX]  Keynote Talk: “Abandoning the Spacetime-Matter Dichotomy in Astronomy and Cosmology
    Niels Martens (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

  • [17:00-17:50 UTC ∥ 11:00-11:50 MX] “Rethinking Cosmology in a Digital Era Phenomenologies of Cosmology in a Big Data Era” Mariana Cerca 

 


 

  • [17:50-18:00 UTC ∥ 11:50-12:00 MX] MINI-BREAK

  •  [18:00-18:50 UTC∥ 12:00-12:50 MX]  “Quantifying Epistemic Distance: From Skepticism to a Conditional Structural Trust in Post-Empirical Physics via a Weighted Aggregate Model” Alessandro Spizzico 

  • [18:50-19:40 UTC // 12:50 -13:40 MX]  “Can Opaque Instruments Decide Between ΛCDM and MOND? Reflections on the Effects of Epistemic Opacity and Disruptive Technologies in Theory Choice” María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz 

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Scientific Committee:

Daniel Sudarsky Saionz (UNAM),
Abril Suárez-Ramírez (Arkansas State University, Campus Querétaro),
Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech),
René A. Ortega Minakata (IRyA UNAM, Campus Morelia),
Antonio E. Ferreiro de Aguiar (University of Utrecht),
Otávio Bueno (University of Miami),
Atocha Aliseda Llera (UNAM).

 

 

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Mesa 2

 


With the support of the PAPIIT project IN406225
Institute for Philosophical Research

 

Actualizado Ene 30 de 2026
    Mar 11 de 2026
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