University of Cologne
Hauptgebäude, Alter Senatssaal
18-19 September 2015
The workshop “Hempel and Beyond” (Cologne; September 18-19, 2015), organized by the DFG-research group “Causation, Laws, Dispositions, Explanation” commemorates Carl Gustav Hempel’s 1965 collection of essays Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science.
Keynote speaker:
- Nancy Cartwright (Durham University)
- Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh)
- Marc Lange (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Oliver Scholz (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
- Michael Strevens (New York University)
- James Woodward (University of Pittsburgh)
| Friday 18th September | ||
| 9:30 – 10:35 | James Woodward | Flagpoles, Anyone? Independence, Invariance and the Direction of Causation |
| 10:35 – 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 – 11:55 | Beate Krickel | Grounding Constitutive Mechanistic Explanation |
| 11:55 – 12:05 | Coffee break | |
| 12:05 – 13:10 | Carsten Held | What is a Ceteris Paribus Law? |
| 13:10 – 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:30 – 15:35 | Michael Strevens | Physicalism and the Disunity of Science: From Monolith to Mandala |
| 15:35 – 15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 – 16:50 | Erica Shumener | Hempel, Explanation, and Circularity |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 – 18:05 | Nancy Cartwright | Causation in the material mode… or why empiricists can believe in causes |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Saturday 19th September | ||
| 9:30 – 10:35 | Oliver Scholz | Right, Almost – Hempel on Explanations and Laws in History and the Social Sciences |
| 10:35 – 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 – 11:55 | Lena Kästner | Patterns and Interlevel Explanations |
| 11:55 – 12:05 | Coffee break | |
| 12:05 – 13:10 | Peter Brössel | On the Role of Explanatory and Systematic Power in Scientific Reasoning |
| 13:10 – 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:30 – 15:35 | Sandra Mitchell | Perspectives, Representation and Integration |
| 15:35 – 15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 – 16:50 | Toby Friend | A neo-Hempelian model for causal analysis |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 – 18:05 | Marc Lange | Putting Explanation Back Into ‘Inference to the Best Explanation’ |
Call for Papers (Closed)
Everybody is kindly invited to participate. If you would like to come please send a short notice to f.fischer@uni-koeln.de.