[PhilPhys] Workshop Lausanne 12-13 October

[Michael-Andreas.Esfeld at unil.ch]

Workshop announcement

Metaphysics of science: objects, relations and structures
University of Lausanne, 12-13 October 2012

Friday 12 October UNIL ANTH 2098
8h45 Holger Lyre (Magdeburg): Why structure ontology isn't a
bundle ontology - a plea for structures as global entities
9h45 Carsten Held (Erfurt): Theory success and structural
realism
10h45 Coffee break
11h15 Meinard Kuhlmann (Bremen): Does Quantum Field Theory
Support Ontic Structural Realism?
12h15 Philipp Keller (Geneva): Bundle theory made
relational? A Critique of Ontic Structural Realism
13h15 Lunch
14h30 Michael Esfeld (Lausanne): The limits of ontic
structural realism
15h30 Kevin Mulligan (Geneva): Beyond Objects, Properties
and Relations
16h30 Coffee break
17h15 Matthias Egg (Lausanne): Causal Explanations and
Scientific Realism in Particle Physics
20h00 Dinner

Saturday 13 October UNIL ANTH 2098
9h00 Ingvar Johansson (Umea): On the Distinction between
Naturally Discrete and Naturally Continuous Quantities
10h00 Anjan Chakravartty (Notre Dame): Dispositions and
Relations as Causes and Structures
11h00 Coffee break
11h30 Mauricio Suarez (Madrid): Propensities and Pragmatism
12h30 Lunch
13h45 Tim Räz (Lausanne): The Applicability of Mathematics
14h45 Marcel Weber (Geneva): The Structuralist Challenge and
Biology
16h00 Apéro

For further information, please contact Michael Esfeld
(Michael-Andreas.Esfeld at unil.ch)



Michael Esfeld
Full professor of philosophy of science
University of Lausanne, Switzerland,
http://www.unil.ch/philo/page43600.html
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