[PhilPhys] CFP: Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, NL, 10-12 April 2008)

[Stephan Hartmann]

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Sydney-Tilburg conference on

REDUCTION AND THE SPECIAL SCIENCES

Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
10-12 April 2008

http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/tilps/RSS2008/

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: William Bechtel (UCSD), Craig Callender (UCSD), 
Paul Griffiths (Sydney), Kevin Hoover (Duke), Philip Pettit 
(Princeton)

ORGANISERS: Mark Colyvan (Sydney), Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg), 
Maurice Schouten (Tilburg) and Katie Steele (Sydney)


Science presents us with a variety of accounts of the world. While 
some of these accounts posit a deeper theoretical structure and 
fundamental entities, others do not. But which of these accounts is 
the right one? How should science conceptualize the world? And what 
is the relation between the various accounts? Opinions on these 
issues diverge wildly in philosophy of science. At one extreme are 
reductionists who argue that higher-level theories should, in 
principle, be incorporated in or eliminated by the basic level 
theory. Higher-level theories do not ultimately exhibit conceptual 
integrity or provide genuine explanations. At the other extreme are 
pluralists who take higher levels of description and explanation 
seriously and argue for their independence and indispensability. Our 
goal in this conference is to bring together representatives from as 
many viewpoints as possible in order to advance our understanding of 
this problem. We invite case studies from the natural, social and 
behavioural sciences as well as discussions of philosophical models 
of intertheoretic relations.


We invite submissions of papers of up to 3000 words by 15 November 
2007. Decisions will be made by 15 January 2008.

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS: A few travel bursaries for graduate students 
are available; if you wish to be considered please submit a short 
(tentative) travel budget and a CV together with your paper by 15 
November 2007. Decisions will be made by 15 January 2008.

BEST GRADUATE PAPER AWARD: We offer an award of 500 Euro for the best 
submitted paper by a graduate student. The winner will be announced 
on 15 January 2008.

PUBLICATION: Revised versions of selected papers will be published in 
a special issue of Erkenntnis. The deadline for submission of the 
final version of the paper is 1 June 2008.

The conference language is English.


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