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Methodological Issues in the Metaphysics of Science

Methodological Issues in the Metaphysics of Science

September 28-29, 2020

Online Zoom event

Keynote Speakers: Anjan Chakravartty, Michela Massimi and Barbara Vetter

Keynote talks will be 30 minutes followed by 30 minute Q&A.

Speaker talks will be 30 minutes followed by 15 minute Q&A.

There will be 15 minute breaks between speakers, with an extended 45 minutes at 16:30.

The Zoom room will open at 13.00.

The meeting will start when the host joins at 13.25.


Please note that the workshop timezone is BST.  


Monday 28th September

             13.25 Introduction from Tuomas Tahko, PI of the MetaScience Project                   

13:30 - 14:30 Michela Massimi, 'Scientific pluralism and the problem of inconsistent models'

14:30 - 14:45 

14:45 - 15:30 Joe Dewhurst, 'Causal Emergence in Science and Metaphysics'

15:30 - 15:45 

15:45 - 16:30 Sahana Rajan, 'Ontology Development in Scientific Metaphysics: An Eliminativist Stance'

16:30 - 17:15 

17:15 - 18:00 Joaquim Giannotti, 'The Powers Ontology: Methodology and Metaphysics'

18:00 - 18:15  

18:15 - 19:00 Peter Tan, 'Metaphysics and Modeling: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Too'  


Tuesday 29th September

             13.25 Introduction from Tuomas Tahko, PI of the MetaScience Project 

13:30 - 14:30 Barbara Vetter,'Explanatory Dispositionalism'

14:30 - 14:45 

14:45 - 15:30 Niels Linnemann & Niels Martens, 'Sensible metaphysics without a final physical theory'

15:30 - 15:45 

15:45 - 16:30 Al Wilson, 'Substantive Discovery in Naturalistic Modal Metaphysics'

16:30 - 17:15 

17:15 - 18:00 William Hannegen, 'Metaphysics-Laden Observation'

18:00 - 18:15 

18:15 - 19:15 Anjan Chakravartty, 'Big ‘M’ vs. Small ‘m’ Metaphysics (of Science), and Confirmation'


We look forward to meeting you!


- The MetaScience Team

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No 771509.  All project outputs are published Open Access.  Website photo credit: Matt Lincoln Photography

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