Methodological Issues in the Metaphysics of Science
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Schedule
Monday 28th September
13:30 - 14:30 Michela Massimi, 'Nature, science and metaphysical posits'
14:30 - 14:45
14:45 - 15:30 Joe Dewhurst, 'Causal Emergence in Science and Metaphysics'
15:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:30 Sahana Rajan, 'Ontology Development in Scientific Metaphysics: An Eliminativist Stance'
16:30 - 17:15
17:15 - 18:00 Joaquim Giannotti, 'A Case Study in the Methodology of the Metaphysics of Science'
18:00 - 18:15
18:15 - 19:00 Peter Tan, 'Metaphysics and Modeling: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Too'
Tuesday 29th September
13:30 - 14:30 Barbara Vetter,'Explanatory Dispositionalism'
14:30 - 14:45
14:45 - 15:30 Niels Linnemann & Niels Martens, 'Sensible metaphysics without a final physical theory'
15:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:30 Al Wilson, 'Substantive Disagreement in Naturalistic Modal Metaphysics'
16:30 - 17:15
17:15 - 18:00 William Hannegen, 'Metaphysics-Laden Observation'
18:00 - 18:15
18:15 - 19:15 Anjan Chakravartty, 'Big ‘M’ vs. Small ‘m’ Metaphysics (of Science), and Confirmation'
Contact information
To register for the conference, please email: metascience-project@bristol.ac.uk