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Emergence and Reduction in Science
giovedì 23 ottobre 2014 - sabato, 25 ottobre 2014
Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques
rue du Four, 13
75006 Paris
October 23

10:00
Alexandru MANAFU, From Multiple Realization to Emergence

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break

11:15
Robin Findlay HENDRY, Emergence vs. reduction: where is the evidence?

12:15 – 13:45
Lunch break

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

October 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

13:45
Alexander 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

October 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

13:45
Carl GILLETT, Mutualism versus Fundamentalism: Understanding our Ongoing Battles over Reduction and Emergence

14:45-15:00
Coffee break

15:00
Kenneth AIZAWA, Compositional Realization

16:00
Olivier SARTENAER, Emergent Evolutionism, Determinism and Unpredictability