The Metaphysics of Dispositions

There will be a Summer School at Bonn University from18 till 20 August 2015 which adjoints a 
conference at Cologne University from 21 till 22 August 2015.

Summer School - „The Metaphysics of Dispositions“
18 - 20 August 2015
University of Bonn
Organisation: Magali Roques & Florian Fischer

The Summer School has a teaching bloc every morning and discussion groups every afternoon. 
Teaching blocs will be held by Dr. Kristina Engelhard (Cologne), PD Dr. Ludger Jansen (Münster) 
and Dr. Stephan Schmid (Berlin).

Dr. Kristina Engelhard (http://uk-online.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/show.pl/page?
uni=1&i_nr=26&f_nr=4&id=777) is writing her Habilitation on the metaphysics of dispositions. 
She is part of the DFG (German Research Foundation) funded project „Causation / Laws / 
Dispositions / Explanation“ and works on a sub-project on „Dispositions, Causation and 
Modality" (http://www.clde.uni-koeln.de/?page_id=164).

PD Dr. Ludger Jansen (http://www.uni-muenster.de/PhilSem/mitglieder/jansen/jansen.html) 
teaches Philosophy in Münster and Rostock. He has written a book on Aristotle's theory of 
dispositions ("Tun und Können", 2002; new editon forthcoming 2015) and works extensively on 
dispositions and other realisables in biomedical ontologies.

Dr. Stephan Schmid (https://www.philosophie.hu-
berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/theorie/mitarbeiter/schmid/stephan.schmid) is particularly interested in 
the history of potentialities and he writes his Habilitation on the metaphysics of modality of the 
late scholastic philosopher Francisco Suárez. He is the co-editor of 
„Dispositionen“ (http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/dispositionen-_29692.html) Suhrkamp, 
2013, which collects important essays in the debate about dispositions.

The afternoon discussion groups will cover the papers of the following conference. We are 
planing to give the participants of the summer school the opportunity to give a short comment 
on the talks during the conference.

There there are only limited spots available for the summer school.To apply please sent a letter 
of motivation (about 1 page) and a CV to [email protected].

Conference - „Dispositions & Manifestations“
21 / 22 August 2015
University of Cologne
Organisation: Andreas Hüttemann & Florian Fischer

The conference is part of the DFG (German Research Foundation) funded project „Causation / 
Laws / Dispositions / Explanation“.

Confirmed speakers:

Nancy Cartwright (Durham)
Kristina Engelhard (Cologne)
Florian Fischer (Bonn)
John Heil (St. Louis)
Ludger Jansen (Münster)
Anna Marmodoro (Oxford)
Stephen Mumford (Nottingham)
Markus Schrenk (Köln)
Matthew Tugby (Durham)