Workshop with Jessica Wilson: Emergence, Stability and Parthood in the Biological and Physical Sciences

Cologne
28 June 2013

Room 1.A13, Richard-Strauss-Strasse 2, Cologne

DFG Research Group Causation | Laws | Dispositions | Explanation

Program

10:00-11:00 Laura Franklin-Hall (New York): “The Possibility of Biology”

Coffee Break

11:20-12:20 Marie I. Kaiser (Geneva): “Parthood in Biology”

Lunch Break

14:00-15:00 Markus Schrenk (Cologne): “Troublesome Biological Properties for Better Best Systems”

15:15-16:15 Andreas Huettemann (Cologne): “The Stability of Physical Macro Behavior”

Coffee Break

16:45-17:45 Alexander Reutlinger (Cologne): “Explaining Universality?”

18:00-19:00 Jessica Wilson (Toronto): “Nonlinearity and Metaphysical Emergence”

Dinner