New Trends in Metaphysics of Science

Provisional Program – workshop New Trends in the Metaphysics of Science

bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, salle de formation

 

Keynote Speakers : 45' talk, 15' Q&A

Selected Speakers : 20' talk, 10' Q&A

 

Wednesday, 16 december 2015

 

9:00 : Accueil/Ouverture

9:15-10:15 : Stéphanie Ruphy (Grenoble) Pluralist challenges to a science-based metaphysics

10:15-10:45 : Amanda Bryant (City University New York) Keep the Chickens Cooped: The Methodological Inadequacy of ‘Free Range' Metaphysics

BREAK

11:00-12:00 : Max Kistler (IHPST, Paris) How Physics Informs us about Causation

LUNCH

13:45-14:45 : James Woodward (Pittsburgh) Physical Modality, Grounds, and Invariance

14:45-15:15 : Donnchadh O’Conaill (Helsinki) Ontic Structural Realism and the Ontology of Relations

15:15-15:45 : Thomas Blanchard (Berkeley) Soft Interventionism

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16:00-17:00 : Alexandre Guay (Louvain-la-Neuve) and Thomas Pradeu (Bordeaux) Situating Metaphysics of Science

17:00-18:00 : Markus Schrenk (Düsseldorf) A History of Production and Modality

 

 

Thursday, 17 december 2015

 

9:00-10:00 : Steven French (Leeds) Between Humeanism and Dispositionalism; or, How to Construct a Modal Framework for Modern Science by Appropriating Metaphysical Devices

10:00-10:30 : Joshua Norton (American University Beirut) Lessons in Metaphysics from Quantum Theories of Gravity

BREAK

10:45-11:45 : Alyssa Ney (University of California Davis) Finding the World in the Wave Function: Some Strategies for Solving the Macro-Object Problem

11:45-12:15 : Olivier Sartenaer (Louvain-la-Neuve) Bringing Physics and Metaphysics Together in the Light of the Emergence/Reduction Debate

LUNCH

14:00-15:00 : Laura Ruetsche (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Effective Theories, Ineffective Interpretations, and Naturalistic Metaphysics

15:00-15:30 : Christina Conroy (Morehead State University, Kentucky) Everett Without Realism

15:30-16:00 : Matthias Egg (Bern) Primitive Ontology and Ontological Reduction in Quantum Mechanics

BREAK

16:15-17:15 : Michael Esfeld (Lausanne) Reanimating natural philosophy

17:15-17:45 : Pascal Ströing (Munich) New Insights on the Metaphysics of Phenomena and Patterns in Data

 

Friday, 18 december 2015

 

9:00-10:00 : Matteo Morganti (Rome 3) Science and the Metaphysics of Grounding

10:00-10:30 : Manolo Martinez (Barcelona) Synergy and Redundancy in Natural Kinds

BREAK

10:45-11:45 : William Wimsatt (Chicago) Biological Design Elements in the Architecture of Nature

11:45-12:15 : Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York University, Toronto) Crosscutting Psycho-Neural Kinds

LUNCH

14:00-15:00 : Anja Plutinsky (Washington University, St. Louis) Cancer Causation, Explanation and the Metaphysical Commitments of Theory

15:00-16:00 : Philippe Huneman (IHPST, Paris) Kinds of metaphysics: individuality as a case study

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16:15-16:45 : Marie Kaiser (Cologne) A Case Study in the Metaphysics of Biological Practice: ENCODE and the Parthood Question

16:45-17:15 : Paula Atencia (Complutense University, Madrid) A Defense of Ontological Pluralism based on Chakravartty's Taxonomic Pluralism and Kuhn's Taxonomic Incommensurability