[Athena] Colloque Emergence and Reduction in Science - 23-25 Oct - IHPST Paris

[Virginie Bellot <Virginie.Bellot AT univ-paris1.fr>]

Emergence and Reduction in Science Workshop

23-25 Oct 2014

IHPST, 13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris, 2e étage, salle de conférences.
Métro Mabillon.

Tentative Schedule

Thursday, Oct. 23

10:00 Alex Manafu: From Multiple Realization to Emergence
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 Robin Hendry: Emergence vs. reduction: where is the evidence?
12:15-13:45 Lunch break at University Restaurant
13:45 Sandra Mitchell: Biological Robustness and Emergence
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00 Paul Humphreys: Transformational Emergence
16:00 Laura Franklin-Hall: Making Sense of Autonomous High-Level
Explanation via Causal Economy

Friday, Oct. 24

10:00 Sergio Chibbaro: Some considerations on Determinism, Chaos and
Reductionism: Probability as an emergent property
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 Barry Loewer: The Mentaculus Vision
12:15-13:45 Lunch break at University Restaurant
13:45 Alex Rosenberg: Making mechanism interesting
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00 Robert Batterman: The Mathematics of Autonomy and Minimal Modeling
16:00 Andreas Hüttemann: Reduction and Coherence
19:00 Conference Dinner at Bouillon Racine (3 rue Racine, Paris. map here).

Saturday, Oct. 25

10:00 Eric Scerri: The electronic configurations of atoms and what
they tell us about the epistemological reduction of chemistry
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 Jagdish Hattiangadi: Entities that Emerge by Chance, and in Time
12:15-13:45 Lunch break (everyone on their own)
13:45 Carl Gillett: Mutualism versus Fundamentalism: Understanding our
Ongoing Battles over Reduction and Emergence
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00 Ken Aizawa: Compositional Realization
16:00 Olivier Sartenaer: Emergent Evolutionism, Determinism and
Unpredictability

Registration

If you would like to attend the workshop please send an email with the
subject "workshop registration" stating your name, position and
institutional affiliation to alexmanafu*gmail.com (replace * by you
know what sign). Note that the number of seats is limited and we might
not be able to accommodate everyone.

Registration deadline: October 20, 2014, 4:00am CET

<http://metascience.hypotheses.org/emergence-and-reduction-in-science>


Organisateurs :

Alex Manafu
Max Kistler

IHPST
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne


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