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SUMMARY:Causation and Laws in the Special Sciences. 
Metaphysical Foundations
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LOCATION:universitätsstrasse\, Konstanz\, Germany\, 78457
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Workshop Abstract</strong></p>\n<p>In recent debates in metaphysics of science\, a considerable amount of work has been dedicated to causation and (ceteris paribus) laws in the higher-level or special sciences including the life sciences and the social sciences. Assuming some kind of minimal physicalist attitude (such as\, at least\, non-reductive physicalism)\, a question arises for accounts of causation and laws in those sciences: how can one explain that there are causal and nomic facts on the higher-level in a world that is ultimately described by fundamental physics? To put it in even more tendentious words: how do these causal and nomic facts emerge from the physical world?</p>\n<p>The goal of this workshop is to&nbsp\;explore the metaphysics of causation and laws in the special sciences that is able to answer the above-mentioned challenges.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Program </strong>(For Abstracts please see our website)</p>\n\n<p><strong>Friday\, 21st September&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>09.15 - 09.30 Arrival</p>\n<p>09.30 - 10.45 <strong>Benedikt Kahmen</strong> (University of Aachen)<br> Causal Explanations of Action</p>\n<p>10.45 - 11.15 Coffee</p>\n<p>11.15 - 12.30 <strong>Alyssa Ney</strong> (University of Rochester)<br> Fundamental and Derivative Causation</p>\n<p>12.30 - 14.00 Lunch</p>\n<p>14.00 - 15.15 <strong>Gerhard M&uuml\;ller-Strahl</strong> (University of M&uuml\;nster)<br> Explaining Organismic Phenomena in Scientifically Based Medicine</p>\n<p>15.15 - 15.45 Coffee</p>\n<p>15.45 - 17.00 <strong>Markus Schrenk</strong> (University of Cologne)<br> Better Best Systems and the Issue of cp-Laws in the Special Sciences</p>\n<p>17.00 - 17.30 Coffee</p>\n<p>17.30 - 18.45 <strong>Huw Price</strong> (University of Cambridge)<br> Retrocausality - what would it take?</p>\n\n<p><strong>Saturday\, 22nd September</strong></p>\n<p>09.30 - 10.45 <strong>Andreas H&uuml\;ttemann</strong> (University of Cologne)<br> Why Laws (or Dispositions) are More Basic than Causal Structure</p>\n<p>10.45 - 11.15 Coffee</p>\n<p>11.15 - 12.30 <strong>Jenann Ismael</strong> (University of Arizona)<br> Why Causal Structure is More Basic than Global Laws</p>\n<p>12.30 - 14.00 Lunch</p>\n<p>14.00 - 15.15 <strong>Sandra Mitchell</strong> (University of Pittsburgh)<br> Biological laws: contingency and stability</p>\n<br>
ORGANIZER;CN=Markus Schrenk;CN=Alexander Reutlinger:
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