MetaScience Final Event: Where is unity?

In this final 3-day conference, the entire MetaScience team past and present will discuss the results of their work on the 5 year research project funded by the European Research Council (No 771509).

The event will start with an overview of the project by our PI Tuomas Tahko and then talks from the project members and the project advisory board on the unity and metaphysics of science.

It will then feature talks from Tuomas Tahko, Toby Friend, Sam Kimpton-Nye, Will Morgan, Francesca Bellazzi, Vanessa Seifert, Alexander Franklin, Jessica Wilson, Alyssa Ney, Robin Hendry, Alexander Bird.

Catering will be provided and there will be the chance to join the conference dinner for a pre-set menu on *Friday evening*, price around £30 at Cozy Club Bristol (vegan/GF options available).

We have a *zoom link* for those who would like to join remotely:

bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95227521161 Meeting ID: 989 9941 2203

Topic: MetaScience Final Conference

SCHEDULE

Day 1:

10.30- 11.00 Welcome coffee

11.00 – 11.30 Tuomas Tahko "A unified overview of MetaScience"

12.00 – 13.00 Jessica Wilson "Does spacetime emerge?"

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Alexander Franklin "Against Bridge Laws: Reduction in the Structuralist Mode"

15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 – 16.15 Francesca Bellazzi "Possible unities in biochemistry"

16.15 – 16.30 Coffee

16.30 – 17.30 Toby Friend "Rule by Power or Rule of Law?"

Conference dinner at Cozy Club – fixed menu around £30, please confirm when you register if you want to attend. Vegan, veggie and gluten free options available!

Day 2:

10.00 – 10.30 Welcome coffee

10.30 – 11.30 Sam Kimpton-Nye "On some objections to powers-BSA"

11.30- 11.45 Short break

11.45 – 12.45 Alexander Bird "Individuals and kinds: restricted composition is information compression"

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Will Morgan "How to be a pluralist about biological individuality"

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 – 16.30 Robin Hendry & Thomas Rossetter "On the completeness of physics"

Day 3:

10.00 – 10.30 Welcome coffee

10.30 – 11.30 Alyssa Ney “The Meaning of Physicalism”

11.30 - 11.45 Coffee

11.45 – 12.45 Vanessa Seifert "Where is unity in chemistry?"

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Conclusive remarks and end of conference