Events

We'll organize two workshops which will bring team-members and collaboration partners to the University of Lisbon.

First Workshop: Thursday 22 May 2025 - Friday 23 May 2025, University of Lisbon - more info below
Second Workshop: Monday 23 March - Tuesday 24 March 2026, University of Lisbon - more info below!

Bonus event: GAP.12 Satellite Workshop "New Work on Metaphysical Indeterminacy" 12 September 2025 in Düsseldorf - more info below

Second Workshop

Indeterminacy in Science - Second Workshop

Location: University of Lisbon, Room B112.B

Monday 23 March 2025

• 11:00–12:30 Bruno Jacinto & Robert Michels (LanCog): Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Modality: a Different Take

• 12:30–14:00 Lunch break – Brunch buffet at the Uni

• 14:00–15:30 Niels Linnemann (University of Geneva): Formulating Guesses (joint work with Feraz Azhar)

• 15:30–15:45 Coffee break

• 15:45–17:15 Andrea Oldofredi (LanCog): Unexpected Quantum Indeterminacy

• 17:30–18:30 INDIS meeting led by Lisa Vogt (University of Geneva)

• 20:00 Conference dinner

Tuesday 24 March 2025

• 11:00–12:30 Francisco Pipa (School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland): An Indeterminacy-based Ontology for Quantum Theory

• 12:30–14:00 Lunch break – Brunch buffet at the Uni

• 14:00–15:30 Mariana Seabra (LanCog): Knowledge transfer in computational science and its consequences to the opacity problem

• 15:30–15:45 Coffee break

Attendance is free, all are welcome!

Workshop on the LanCog website and on philevents.

Organization: Ana Escher (ana.escher.rieger@gmail.com) & Robert Michels (robert.michels@edu.ulisboa.pt)

Project Indeterminacy in Science

LanCog, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon

This event is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project 2023.15136.PEX

GAP.12 Satellite Workshop: New Work on Metaphysical Indeterminacy

12 September 2025, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf.

This satellite workshop associated with the GAP.12 conference in Düsseldorf is organized by Robert Michels and will involve project members and associates Claudio Calosi, Laurie Letertre, and Vera Hofmann-Kolss. The workshop is made possible through funding from the GAP, which we gratefully acknowledge!

Check back for updates. For the moment, see the description, abstracts for the talks and a preliminary programme in the embedded pdf below:

gap12_satellite_workshop_metaphysical_indeterminacy.pdf

First Workshop

Indeterminacy in Science – First Workshop

Location: University of Lisbon, Faculdade de Letras, Room B112.C (1st floor of the building of the Biblioteca da Faculdade de Letras)

**Schedule updated**

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 11:00–12:30 Andrea Oldofredi: A journey in indeterminacy: From classical mechanics to relativistic quantum physics

• 12:30–14:00 Lunch break – Brunch buffet at the Uni

• 14:00–15:30 Lisa Vogt: How Should Humeans Deal With Tied Best Systems?

• 15:30–15:45 Coffee break

• 15:45–17:15 Vera Hoffmann-Kolss: A Supervaluationist Theory of Causal Indeterminacy

• 17:30–18:30 INDIS project team meeting

• 20:00 Conference dinner

Friday 23 May 2025

• 11:00–12:30 Jonas Werner: Metaphysical Indeterminacy on the Cheap?

• 12:30–14:00 Lunch break – Brunch buffet at the Uni

• 14:00–15:30 Alessandro Torza: From Chance to Metaphysical Indeterminacy

• 15:30–15:45 Coffee break & End of conference

Attendance of the talks is free, all are welcome!

Please register by sending an e-mail with subject "First INDIS workshop registration" to:robert.michels@edu.ulisboa.pt

This is an in-person only event.

Philevents: https://philevents.org/event/show/135725

Organization:

Robert Michels (robert.michels@edu.ulisboa.pt)

Project Indeterminacy in Science

LanCog, Centre of Philosophy, Universidade de Lisboa: https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/lancog/

Sponsored by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Downloadable programme/mini-poster:

1st_INDIS_workshop_miniposter.pdf

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