EMERGENCE : ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, CNRS)
Organized by Anouk Barberousse, Jacques Dubucs and Philippe Huneman.
Thursday April 29th, Friday April 30 th
Location : salle Dussane, ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris.
Schedule
April 29
Morning 10h - John Symons (University of Texas, El Paso) Logically possible mechanisms and the metaphysics of emergence
11h - Jacques Dubucs (IHPST-UMR 8590 CNRS/PARIS I/ENS) Emergence : towards an absolute definition
12h – Lunch
Afternoon 14h - Jennan Ismael (University of Arizona, Tucson) Emergent order; the limits of self-organization
Discussion
April 30th
Morning 10h - Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) Pattern Emergence
11h - Philippe Huneman (IHPST-UMR 8590 CNRS/PARIS I/ENS) Emergence and Adaptation
12h – lunch
Afternoon 14h - Mark Bedau (Reed College, Oregon) The ontological autonomy of robust weak emergence in complex systems
15h - Stephan Hartmann (Konstanz Universität, Germany & LSE - London) Reduction and Emergence in Particle Physics
Roundtable
For further details, you can look at the website : http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/p7.htm (and go to "opérations")
IHPST-UMR 8590 (CNRS/Paris 1/ENS)
(Institut d'Histoire et de philosophie
des Sciences et des Techniques)
13, rue du Four 75006 Paris
Tel (33) 01 43 54 60 36
Fax (33) 01 44 07 16 49
http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr