Graduate Workshop in Philosophy of Nature

GRADUATE WORKSHOP IN PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

Texas A&M University March 22 2025

Venue: YMCA 401, top floor of the YMCA building, College Station, TX 77840, off Academic Plaza.

Contact: [email protected], [email protected]

9:30-10:00 informal greetings, coffee and bagels available.

Session One: moderator: Lewis Rosenberg (Texas A&M).

10:00-10:50 Chloe White (Texas A&M). “Crisis as Commodity: How the Culture Industry Fuels Climate Inaction.”

11:00-11:50 Cory Turner (St Thomas Houston). “Equivocal Causality and Chance in Nature.”

12-12:50 Sam Politz (St Thomas Houston). "Is 'consciousness' used univocally or analogically in human and animal minds?"

1-2 lunch

Session Two: moderator: Moriah Poliakoff (Texas A&M).

2:00-2:50 Michael Potts (University of Dallas) "The Interweaving of Science and Physics: Vicious and Virtuous Circles."

3:00-3:50 Miguel Brand (St Thomas Houston). TBA

4:00-4:50 Weian Ding (Texas A&M). TBA

4:50-5:00 Lewis Rosenberg (Texas A&M) closing remarks.