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Emergence and Reduction in Science
giovedì 23 ottobre 2014 - sabato, 25 ottobre 2014
October 23
10:00
Alexandru MANAFU,
From Multiple Realization to Emergence11:00 – 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 Emergence14:45 – 15:00
Coffee break
15:00
Paul HUMPHREYS,
Transformational Emergence 16:00
Laura FRANKLIN-HALL,
Making Sense of Autonomous High-Level Explanation via Causal EconomyOctober 24
10:00
Sergio CHIBBARO,
Some considerations on Determinism, Chaos and Reductionism: Probability as an emergent property11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15
Barry LOEWER,
The Mentaculus Vision12:15 – 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 Modeling16:00
Andreas HÜTTEMANN,
Reduction and Coherence19:00
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 chemistry11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15
Jagdish HATTIANGADI,
Entities that Emerge by Chance, and in Time12:15 –13:45
Lunch break
13:45
Carl GILLETT,
Mutualism versus Fundamentalism: Understanding our Ongoing Battles over Reduction and Emergence14:45-15:00
Coffee break
15:00
Kenneth AIZAWA,
Compositional Realization16:00
Olivier SARTENAER,
Emergent Evolutionism, Determinism and Unpredictability
