Humeaninsm and its Critics

Humeanism and its Critics

Cologne: June 20/21
Conference-Venue:
Alter Senatssaal,
Hauptgebäude, Albertus Magnus Platz
Universität zu Köln

Fr. 20 June:

9:00 - 10:10             Alastair Wilson (Birmingham): "Flexible Humeanism: the best of both worlds?"

10:20 – 11:30          Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Köln): " Humeanism and the Problem of Intrinsic Causation ".

11:50 - 13:00           Andreas Hüttemann( Köln): “What’s Wrong with Humeanism?”

14:30 – 15:40           Thomas Müller (Konstanz): “Possibility as uncertainty of self-location? On the limits of a neo-Humean idea”

15:50 – 17:00           Benjamin Smart (Johannesburg): “Hypertemporal Humeanism - How the Humean Can Accommodate an Open Future”

17:10 – 18:20           Matt Tugby (Durham, UK): “Governing versus Non-Governing Conceptions of Laws”.

Sat: 21 June

9:00- 10:10              Marius Backmann (Konstanz): „Tensed Laws, Non-eternalist Humanism and Justification of Induction“

10:20 – 11:30          Elisabeth Miller (Harvard/Birmingham): tba

11:50 - 13:00           Wolfgang Schwarz (ANU): "A Humean interpretation of the Everett interpretation"

  Attendance is free. Please send an email to [email protected] for further information.