September 23, 2015, h. 15.00 - September 25, 2015, h. 13.00
Università degli Studi di Macerata, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, sezione di Filosofia
aula A (room A) - via Garibaldi 20, Macerata (Italy)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD
Chair: Michele Paolini Paoletti / Università degli Studi di Macerata
15.00
Robin F. Hendry / University of Durham
Prospects for Strong Emergence in Chemistry (abstract)
16.00
Stephan Leuenberger / University of Glasgow
The Possibility of Emergence (abstract)
17.00
Break
17.30
Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson / Lunds Universitet
A Unified Account of Causation, Constitution, Persistence, and Emergence (abstract)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH
Morning Session
Chair: Simone Gozzano / Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
9.30
Carl Gillett / Northern Illinois University
Scientific Emergentism and Its Move Beyond Downward Causation: Understanding Mutualism and Machresis (abstract)
10.30
Stefano Catelan / University of Durham
Strong Emergence and Quinean Existence: An Attempt to Understand
11.30
Break
12.00
Michele Paolini Paoletti / Università degli Studi di Macerata
Downward, Substance, Structural Causation (abstract)
13.00
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Francesco Orilia / Università degli Studi di Macerata
15.00
John Heil / Washington University in St. Louis
Downward Causation (abstract)
16.00
Simone Gozzano / Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Mental Causation and the Compatibility of Downward Causation and Emergence (abstract)
17.00
Break
17.30
Leon de Bruin / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Victor Gijsbers / Universiteit Leiden
Interventionism, Agency and Causal Exclusion (abstract)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH
Chair: Mario De Caro / Università degli Studi Roma III
9.30
Timothy O’Connor / Indiana University
Emergent Persons (abstract)
10.30
Robert D. Rupert / University of Colorado Boulder – University of Edinburgh
Mental causation and the primacy of subpersonal content (abstract)
11.30
Break
12.00
Francesco Orilia / Università degli Studi di Macerata
Emergence, Downward Causation and the Metaphysics of Causation (abstract)