Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:30 - 09:50 | Opening of the Workshop (Salle Jean Ladrière) | |
09:50 - 11:10 | Plenary talk (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
09:50 - 11:10 | › The Puzzle of Non-Contingent Scientific Explanation - Alastair Wilson, University of Leeds | |
11:10 - 11:25 | Coffee break (Salle Jean Ladrière) | |
11:25 - 12:50 | Reviewed submission (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
11:25 - 12:05 | › Minimal Models, Minimal Results - Roberto Fumagalli, King's College London, London School of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | |
12:10 - 12:50 | › How can we access negative modality? - Robert Oliver, University of Barcelona | |
12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch (Salle Jean Ladrière) | |
14:00 - 15:25 | Reviewed submission (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
14:00 - 14:40 | › Modalities and Counterfactuals in the Historical Sciences - Lucas Escobar, République des Savoirs - ENS - PSL | |
14:45 - 15:25 | › How-possible explanations of impossibilities - Felipe Morales Carbonell, Universidad de Chile | |
15:25 - 15:40 | Coffee break | |
15:40 - 17:05 | Reviewed submission (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
15:40 - 16:20 | › Metaontology of Dependence - Maciej Sendłak, University of Warsaw | |
16:25 - 17:05 | › A New Defence of Humeanism about Laws - Russell Enda, Trinity College Dublin |
Friday, May 9, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 09:40 | Reviewed submission (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
09:00 - 09:40 | › The Reduction of Essence to Dispositions - Jonas Amar, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris | |
09:45 - 11:05 | Plenary talk (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
09:45 - 11:05 | › Necessity and Contingency: Quantum Mechanics and Empiricist Modalism - Otávio Bueno, University of Miami | |
11:05 - 11:25 | Coffee break | |
11:25 - 12:50 | Reviewed submission (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
11:25 - 12:05 | › Humean laws do not supervene on their instances - Jack Casey, TU Delft | |
12:10 - 12:50 | › Beyond Causality: Mathematical Explanations as Constraints in Science - Chen Zhibin, Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | |
12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:25 | Reviewed submission (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
14:00 - 14:40 | › Quantum Gravity: no spacetime, no laws? - Charlotte Zito, Université de Genève = University of Geneva | |
14:45 - 15:25 | › Infinitesimal Action - Ulrich Meyer, Colgate University | |
15:25 - 15:40 | Break | |
15:40 - 17:05 | Reviewed submission (Salle Jean Ladrière) | (+) |
15:40 - 16:20 | › The modal structure of biology - Margarida Hermida, King's College London |
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 12:50 | Student session (Salle Jean Ladrière) |