Humeaninsm and its Critics
Workshop in Cologne
20/1 June 2014
DFG Research Group Causation | Laws | Dispositions | Explanation
Programm
Fr. 20 June:
9:00 – 10:10 Alastair Wilson (Birmingham): “Flexible Humeanism: the best of both worlds?”
10:20 – 11:30 Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Köln): “Humeanism and the Problem of Intrinsic Causation”.
11:50 – 13:00 Andreas Hüttemann (Köln): “What’s Wrong with Humeanism?”
14:30 – 15:40 Thomas Müller (Konstanz): “Possibility as uncertainty of self-location? On the limits of a neo-Humean idea”
15:50 – 17:00 Benjamin Smart (Johannesburg): “Hypertemporal Humeanism – How the Humean Can Accommodate an Open Future”
17:10 – 18:20 Matt Tugby (Durham, UK): “Governing versus Non-Governing Conceptions of Laws”.
Sat: 21 June
9:00- 10:10 Marius Backmann (Konstanz): „Tensed Laws, Non-eternalist Humanism and Justification of Induction“
10:20 – 11:30 Elisabeth Miller (Harvard/Birmingham): tba
11:50 – 13:00 Wolfgang Schwarz (ANU): “A Humean interpretation of the Everett interpretation”
Registration
Please send an email to ahuettem@uni-koeln.de by the end of May to express your interest to participate. We can unfortunately offer only a limited number of places.
Travel grants
We will be able to offer a restricted number of travel grants (up to 250 Euros each). PhD students and advanced M.A. students are encouraged to apply for these grants by submitting a short letter of motivation (200 words) and a short CV. The deadline is 10 May 2014. Please send the applications to ahuettem@uni-koeln.de.