Colloquium in honour of Rosemarie Rheinwald

Colloquium in honour of Rosemarie Rheinwald
University of Münster, 9-10 May, 2014

May 9: Senatssaal, Schlossplatz 2 15:00-18:30.
May 10: Festsaal, Schlossplatz 5, 9:00-18:30.

Convenors:
Nancy Cartwright, Brigite Falkenburg, Ulrich Krohs and Wolfgang Spohn

Supported by:
Department of Philosophy, University of Münster
Center for Philosophy of Science, University Münster
DFG Research Group Causation | Laws | Dispositions | Explanation


Speakers

Nancy Cartwright: Singular causation

Wolfgang Spohn: Conjunctive and interactive forks revisited
Sebastian Schmoranzer: Is causation a local affair?
Andreas Hüttemann: Dispositions
Oliver Scholz: Hypothetico-deductive method and inference to the best
explanation - a comparison
Brigitte Falkenburg: tba (intensionality)
Niko Strobach: The stork and the unicorn - thisness and singular terms for
natural kinds

Jan Michel: How not to Kripke Rheinwald's Russell
Ulrike Kleemeier: tba (paradoxes)
Martin Pleitz: Reification and paradox


The Colloquium:
Rosemarie Rheinwald died, all too early, five years ago at the age of 60.
She was a professor at the philosophy department of the Universtity of
Münster and worked mainly in the fields of philosophy of science, philosophy
of language, and logics. Her publications were not large in number, but deep
in thought. Her very original and excellent work does not yet seem to have
the repercussions it deserves.The convenors wish to help changing this a
little bit and honour Rosemarie Rheinwald by discussing some of the main
topics she worked on, and relating their own philosophical work to her
thoughts and results.


Registration
Please send an email at your earliest convenience, preferably before April
30, to [email protected]


Travel grants
We will be able to offer a restricted number of travel grants (up to 250
Euros each). PhD students and advanced M.A. students are encouraged to apply
for these grants by submitting a short letter of motivation (200 words) and
a short CV. The deadline is April 28. Please send your application to
[email protected].

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the local organizer:
[email protected]