Metaphysics of Science Workshop On "Natural Kinds"

an AHRC funded workshop

Friday 16th March 2007

Common Room, Department of Philosophy, 9 Woodland Rd. Bristol

Conveners: Alexander Bird & Emma Tobin

Programme

Thursday 15th March 2007

• 19:30 - Late: - Conference Dinner – Browns Restaurant, 38 Queens Rd. Clifton.

Friday 16th March 2007

• 09:10 - 09:30: - Alexander Bird (Bristol)- ‘Introduction’
• 09:30 - 11:30: - Jonathan Lowe (Durham)- ‘Essentialism and Chemical Kinds’& Alexander Bird ’Reply‘
• 11:30 - 12:00: - Coffee Break
• 12:00 - 13:00: - Emma Tobin (Bristol)- ‘Natural Kinds & Natural Necessities’
• 13:00 - 14:30: - Lunch at the Hawthorns
• 14:30 - 15:30: - John Dupre (Exeter)- ‘Biological Kinds from the bottom up’
• 15:30 - 16:00: - Coffee Break
• 16:00 - 18:00: - Richard Boyd (Cornell)- ‘Natural kinds, natural things and natural events: lessons from (and for) the literature on the metaphysics of aggregate phenomena.’
• 18:00 – 19:00: - Drinks at the Highbury Vaults
• 19:00 - Late: - Dinner at Sands Restaurant, 95 Queens Rd. Clifton.

Accommodation

We cannot organise accommodation for non-speakers, but would recommend the following:

The Clifton Hotels (Berkeley, Rodney, Clifton, Washington)

The Westbourne Hotel

Alternatively, these sites might be useful:

http://visitbristol.co.uk/site/where_to_stay

Bed and Breakfast Bristol

The AA (put 'BS8 1TB' in the location box)

Registration

There is no registration fee. However, places are limited. Please contact Emma.Tobin@bristol.ac.uk to reserve a place. Guests will have to organize their own accommodation and lunch.

Arrival and Departure

The workshop will take place in the common room of the Department of Philosophy, 9 Woodland Road. Map of university precinct.

For information about how to get to the university precinct, please consult http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/maps/.