UAH-MCMP Workshop "Multiple Realizability, Causation and Reductive Explanations in Science" (6-7 March 2018)
The Workshop is organized by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU Munich, and the Department of Philosophy, Alberto Hurtado University, Chile (UAH).
This workshop aims to promote an international forum to share knowledge, issues, and challenges related to multiple realizability, causation and reductive explanations in science. Some of the questions that we will address are: Is multiple realizability compatible with reduction? Should multiple realizability be understood as synonym of universality? Do we have reasons to believe in top-down causation in science? Is supervenience a causal relation? Does thermodynamics reduces to statistical mechanics? Are there examples of emergence in science? Does Quantum Statistical Mechanics provide reductive explanations? Are Causal explanations in the high-level Sciences Complete?
Speakers
- Sergio Daniel Barberis (University of Buenos Aires)
- Sebastian Fortin (University of Buenos Aires- CONICET)
- Samuel Fletcher (MCMP/LMU)
- Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU)
- Manuel Herrera Aros (University of Buenos Aires- CONICET)
- Olimpia Lombardi (University of Buenos Aires- CONICET)
- Francisco Pereira (UAH)
- Patricia Palacios (MCMP/LMU)
- Michael Strevens (NYU)
Organizers
- Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU)
- Patricia Palacios (MCMP/LMU)
- Francisco Pereira (UAH)
Program
Day 1 (Tuesday, 6 March 2018)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Olimpia Lombardi and Sebastian Fortin: Multiple Realizability: Comparing Classical Irreversibility and Decoherence |
| 11:15 - 11:35 | Coffee Break |
| 11:35 - 12:35 | Stephan Hartmann: Reductive Explanations in Quantum Statistical Mechanics |
| 12:35 - 14:15 | Lunch Break |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Manuel Herrera Aros: Physical Causation, Conserved Quantities and General Relativity |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Coffee Break |
| 15:35 - 16:35 | Samuel Fletcher: The Topology of Intertheoretic Reduction |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
Day 1 (Wednesday, 7 March 2018)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Patricia Palacios: On the Universality of Hawking Radiation |
| 11:15 - 11:35 | Coffee Break |
| 11:35 - 12:35 | Francisco Pereira: Multiple Realizabilty, Local Reduction and Psychological Eliminitavism |
| 12:35 - 14:15 | Lunch Break |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Sergio Daniel Barberis: Direct Evidence of Multiple Realization of Memory in Mollusks |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Coffee Break |
| 15:35 - 16:35 | Michael Strevens: The Whole Story: Explanatory Autonomy and Convergent Evolution |
Venue
Sala Balcones, DINAMARCA 399, Valparaíso, Chile