Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences, pitt-paris II

Friday-Sunday, 11-13 December 2009
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , PA USA

Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required. To register, please contact rubus.pitt.edu.

8:30

9:00

9:10

10:00

10:50

11:20

12:10

1:00

Coffee

Introduction:
TBA

Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
Evolution and the Emergence of Intelligence

Jacques Dubucs, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris
Downhill Synthesis?

Coffee

Jessica Wilson, University of Toronto
The Metaphysical Basis of Non-linear Emergence

Cyrille Imbert, Archives Poincaré, Université Nancy 2/CNRS
Emergence and Inherently Sequential Processes

Lunch

Friday Afternoon
Chair: Philippe Huneman, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris

   2:30

   3:20

   4:10

4:40

5:30

Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
Dynamic Emergence

Jonathan Davies, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Calculating and Constructing Emergence from the Bottom Up in Systems and Synthetic Biology

Coffee

Rafaela Hillerbrand, RWTH Aachen University
Two Problems with Nagelian Type Reductions. How Thermodynamics May Not Be Reduced to Statistical Mechanics

Doreen Fraser, University of Waterloo
Idealization and Renormalization Group Methods in Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory

Saturday Morning
Chair: Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh

   8:30

   9:10

10:00

  10:50

  11:20

  12:10

   1:00

Coffee

Philippe Huneman, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris
Computational Emergence, Robustness and Realism: Considering Ecology and Its Neutral Models

Alan Love, University of Minnesota
Aspects of Reductive Explanations in Biological Science: Intrinsicality, Fundamentality and Temporality

Coffee

Laura Franklin-Hall, New York University - CANCELLED
Emergent Dynamics in Developmental Systems

John Symons, University of Texas at El Paso
Network dynamics and computational models of emergence

Lunch

Saturday Afternoon
Chair: Kenneth Schaffner, University of Pittsburgh

   2:30

   3:20

   4:10

4:40

5:30

Peter Machamer, University of Pittsburgh
Misunderstandings of Reduction and Causality: Persons, Subpersonal States, and the Social

Kenneth Aizawa, Centenary College of Louisiana
The Autonomy of Psychology in the Age of Neuroscience

Coffee

Paul-Antoine Miquel, University of Nice
Slobodan Perovic, University of Pittsburgh
Neither Reduction Nor Emergence? The Gene's Actions And Reciprocal Causation

Matteo Mossio, University of the Basque Country/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Leonardo Bich, University of Bergamo
Alvaro Moreno, University of the Basque Country
Constraints and Biological Emergence

Sunday Morning
Chair: John Symons, University of Texas at El Paso

   8:30

   9:10

10:00

10:50

  11:20

12:10

Coffee

Carl Gillett, Northern Illinois University
A Whole Lot More from 'Nothing But': The Possibility of Strong Emergence and the Deeper Issues in the Sciences and Philosophy

Craig Callender, University of California, San Diego
Jonathan Cohen, University of California, San Diego
Special Sciences, Conspiracy and the Better Best System Account of Lawhood

Coffee

Michael Silberstein, Elizabethtown College
When Super-Theories Collide: A Brief History of the Emergence/Reduction Battles between Particle Physics and Condensed Matter Theory

Kenneth Schaffner, University of Pittsburgh
Reduction: Undead Again

Discussants

William Kallfelz, New Mexico State University
Michael Trestman, University of California, Davis
Anthony Peressini, Marquette University

Program Committee

Philippe Huneman, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh
Dennis Pozega, University of Pittsburgh