Programme 

First day: June 11th (Thursday) 

8h45 - Welcome 

9h - Presentation of the symposium 

9h15 - 10h15 - Michela Massimi (Edinburgh): Way of world knowing

10h15 - 11h15 - Markus Schrenk (Düsseldorf): A Plurality of Laws of Nature?

Break (15 mins) 

11h30 - 12h30 - Adrien Avramoglou (Paris): Criteria and predicates in Best-System Accounts: a pluralist stance 

12h30 - 14h30 - Lunch 

14h30 - 15h30 - James Ladyman (Bristol): The Limits of Realism and Pluralism 

15h30 - 16h30 - Sélène Domino (Paris): Metaphysical naturalism as ontological pluralism? Insights from the tension between naturalisation and unification in Ladyman and Ross’ proposition.

Break (15 mins)

16h45 - 17h45 - Daian Bica (Düsseldorf): The Word for World is Scale: Levels, Scales, and Dependence

Second day: June 12th (Friday) 

9h - Welcome 

9h15 - 10h15 - Mauricio Suárez (Madrid): Chance Pluralism

10h15 - 11h15 - Stephanie Ruphy (Paris): Scientific metaphysics or scientific pluralism: must we choose? 

Break (15 mins) 

11h30 - 12h30 - Mathilde Escudero (Paris): A Manipulationist Theory of Chance

12h30 - 14h30 - Lunch 

14h30 - 15h30 - Sébastien Rivat (Munich): Effective metaphysics and the challenge of metaphysical approximation

15h30 - 16h30 - Andreas Hüttemann  (Cologne): Pluralism, Complementarity, and Reductive Explanation

Break (15 mins)

16h45 - 17h45 - Thomas Blanchard (Bordeaux): Dependence Pluralism and Its Consequences 

17h45 - 18h : Farewell