[PhilPhys] ESF workshop Lausanne next week

[Michael-Andreas.Esfeld at unil.ch]

Workshop announcement

ESF programme The philosophy of science in a European
perspective
Workshop Causation, dispositions and probabilities in
physics and biology
University of Lausanne, 22 to 24 November 2012

Thursday 22 November 2012
 from 13h00 on informal lunch (Restaurant de Dorigny on the
University campus)
14h00 Welcome and opening of the conference
14h15 Andreas Bartels (Bonn): How fundamental physics
represents causal relations
commentator: Mario Hubert (Munich) 
15h45 coffee
16h15 Claus Beisbart (Bern): Humean chances and the
foundations of statistical mechanics
commentator: Karim Thebault (Munich)
17h45 Mark Colyvan (Sydney): The Ins and Outs of
Mathematical Explanation
commentator: Tim Räz (Lausanne) tim.raz at unil.ch
19h30 dinner

Friday 23 November 2012
9h15 Cristian Saborido (University of the Basque Country):
Causes and dispositions: functional explanations in biology
commentator: Christian Sachse (Lausanne) 
10h45 coffee
11h15 Isabelle Drouet (Sorbonne Paris) & Francesca Merlin
(IHPST Paris): The propensity interpretation of fitness
commentator: Marcel Weber (Geneva)
12h45 lunch

14h15 Max Urchs (European Business School Wiesbaden):
Causation in complex environments
commentator: Raphael Scholl (Bern)
15h45 coffee
16h15 Tomasz Placek (Kracov): Causal probabilities in
quantum mechanics
commentator: Dennis Dieks (Utrecht)
17h45 Gabor Hofer-Szabo (Budapest) & Miklos Redei (LSE):
Common cause explanations of Bell-type experiments
commentator: Dustin Lazarovici (Munich)
19h30 dinner

Saturday 24 November
9h15 Jan Faye (Copenhagen): What counts as causation in
physics and biology?
commentator: Jan Baedke (Bochum) 
10h45 coffee
11h15 Round table discussion on meeting points between the
philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology, chair
Michael Esfeld
12h30 lunch

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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