The manifest image and the scientific image: objects, properties and relations

Università di Firenze, November, 29-30, 2021

Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia (DILEF)

via Laura 48, Firenze


November 29, 2021 - Room 101

14.00-15.00 Riccardo BRUNI (Firenze) and Francesco ORILIA (Macerata), Adaptive Logic and the Logical Paradoxes

15.00-16.00 Mirko TAGLIAFERRI (Urbino), Two Images of Trust: Philosophical and Computational

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-17.30 Matti EKLUND (Uppsala), Possible Limits of Conceptual Engineering: Magnetism, Fixed Points and Inescapability

17.30-18.30 Achille VARZI (online) (Columbia), World Images and World Reference


November 30, 2021 - Aula Magna

9.00-10.00 Anna MARMODORO (Durham/Oxford), Relations without polyadic properties

10.00-11.00 Francesco ORILIA (Macerata) and Michele PAOLINI PAOLETTI (Macerata), In Defense of Irreducible Relations

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.30 Orly SHENKER (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), What is a physical explanation of experience?

12.30-13.30 Arianna BORRELLI (Lüneburg) and Elena Castellani (Firenze), Objects, Structures and Symmetries

13.30-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-15.30 Carl HOEFER (Barcelona), Physicalism and Fundamental Physics (a challenge for Hemmo & Shenker)

15.30-16.30 Mauro DORATO (Roma III), Bohr's holism and the relation between the manifest and the scientific image

16.30-17.30 Peter VICKERS (Durham), Is the Universe Dark?


Organized by the PRIN Florence Local Unit.

Contacts: elena.castellani@unifi.it; francesca.pero@unifi.it

To attend the conference in person, it will be necessary to hold a QR code released by the University of Florence. To request a QR code, please write by November 22, 2021 to: francesca.pero@unifi.it

It will be possible to attend the conference online through the following link: https://bit.ly/3nSV3dc

Locandina Conference PRIN Firenze november 2021.pdf