CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submissions of abstracts \;of maximum 1000 words\, suitable for one-hour presentation (including +/- 20 \;minutes Q&\;A). Abstracts \;should be fully \;anonymized and sent via email to Mrs. Ursula Heister (uheister@uni-koeln.de)\, with\, in \;the body of the email\, the \;author&rsquo\;s \;name\, affiliation and contact \;information. \;We especially \;encourage submissions from women researchers and junior scholars.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
April 1st\, 2018
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE
May 1st\, 2018
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Travel and/or accommodation expenses of untenured selected speakers will \;be covered up to 250&euro\;.
REGISTRATION
Free
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Andreas Hü\;ttemann \;(University of Cologne)
Olivier Sartenaer \;(University of Cologne)
Martin Voggenauer \;(University of Cologne)
SPONSOR
University of Cologne
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
CONTACT
Olivier Sartenaer: \;osartena@uni-koeln.de
CONFERENCE RATIONALE
The main motivation for the present conference is that \;most theories of emergence\, though potentially fruitful in their own way\, are \;not comprehensive\, in \;that they share a common bias that make them blind to \;some conceptual space available to emergence and\, accordingly\, to some \;clear-cut empirical \;cases of such an emergence. The hypothesized bias is \;twofold: it consists in considering whatever emerges to be both systematically \;simultaneous with\, \;as well as belonging to a higher level with respect to\, what \;it emerges from. In other words\, it is about postulating that the emergence \;relation essentially \;is both \;synchronic \;and \;hierarchical. The main objective \;of this conference is to explore alternative perspectives on emergence that one \;can devise as \;soon as one is ready to put aside such a synchronic and/or \;hierarchical bias\, to the effect that emergence is considered in a diachronic \;and/or a non-holistic fashion (on the model of\, \;e.g.\, \;Humphreys&rsquo\; (2016) \;&ldquo\;transformational emergence&rdquo\;).
All philosophical approaches to diachronic and/or \;non-holistic emergence are welcome\, ranging from the history of philosophy\, \;contemporary \;metaphysics or epistemology\, or the philosophy of particular \;sciences\, where ascriptions of diachronic and/or non-holistic emergence can be \;made.
SELECTIVE RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Anjum\, R. L.\, &\; \;Mumford\, S. (2017). Emergence and Demergence. In M. P. Paoletti &\; F. Orilia \;(Eds.)\, \;Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on \;Downward Causation \;(pp. 92-109). New York: Routledge.
- Ganeri\, J. (2011). \;Emergentisms\, Ancient and Modern. \;Mind\, 120\, 671-703.
- Guay\, A.\, &\; \;Sartenaer\, O. (2016). A New Look at Emergence. Or When After is Different. \;European \;Journal for Philosophy of Science\, 6(2)\, 297-322.
- Humphreys\, P. W. (1997). How Properties \;Emerge. \;Philosophy of Science\, 64(1)\, 1-17.
- Humphreys\, P. W. \;(2016). \;Emergence. A Philosophical Account. New York: Oxford University \;Press.
- Rueger\, A. (2000). Physical Emergence\, Diachronic \;and Synchronic. \;Synthese\, 124(3)\, 297-322.
- Santos\, G. C. (2015). \;Ontological Emergence: How is That Possible? Towards a New Relational Ontology. \;Foundations of Science\, 20(4)\, 429-446.
- Sartenaer\, O. \;(forthcoming). Flat Emergence. \;Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
- Stephan\, A. (1999). Varieties of Emergentism. \;Evolution and Cognition\, 5(1)\, 49-59.