December 4th
Possibilities and Dispositions
10:30 – 11:40 Andreas Hüttemann (Universität zu Köln) – Dispositions and Conditional Metaphysical Necessity
11:55 – 13:05 Daniel Nolan (Australian National University) – Noncausal Dispositions
14:30 – 15:40 Antje Rumberg (Universität Konstanz) – Branching Time, Real Possibilities and Potentialities
Possibilities and Omissions
15:55 – 17:05 Carolina Sartorio (University of Arizona at Tuscon) – Omissions, Possibilities, and the Ability to Do Otherwise
17:20 – 18:30 Sara Bernstein (Duke University) – Omission Impossible
December 5th
Possibilities, Necessity and Laws
10:00 – 11:10 Richard Woodward (Universität Hamburg) – The Structure of Necessity
11:25 – 12:35 Siegfried Jaag (Université de Luxembourg) – Real Laws, Real Explanations and Natural Necessities
13:45 – 14:55 Steven French (University of Leeds) – Doing Away with Dispositions: Towards a Law-Based View of Modality in Science