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SUMMARY:Workshop "Possibility and Necessity in Science"
DESCRIPTION:Necessity and Possibility in Science is the theme of the 5th workshop of the OLOFOS group. It will take place on May 8-10 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) at the Institut supérieur de philosophie (ISP) of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). Note that any approach to this theme is potentially acceptable. However\, contributions about the articulation of necessity and possibility in a scientific discipline will have the preference of the selection committee. \n\nPlenary Speakers \nOtavio Bueno (University of Miami). \nAlastair Wilson (University of Leeds). \nProgramme (PDF) \n\nFull details and programme: https://neposcience.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en \n  \nRecordings \nConference Opening / Alastair Wilson\, « Puzzle of Non-Contingent Scientific Explanation » (partial) \n \nRoberto Fumagalli\, « Minimal Models\, Minimal Results » \n \nRobert Oliver\, « How can we access negative modality? » \nhttps://youtu.be/HyDERQGo9Bg \nLucas Escobar\, « Modalities and Counterfactuals in the Historical Sciences » \n \nFelipe Morales Carbonell\, « How-possible explanations of impossibilities » \n \nMaciej Sendłak\, « Metaontology of Dependence » \n \nRussell Enda\, « A New Defence of Humeanism about Laws » \n \nOtávio Bueno\, « Necessity and Contingency: Quantum Mechanics and Empiricist Modalism » \n \nCharlotte Zito\, « Quantum Gravity: no spacetime\, no laws? » (partial) \n \nUlrich Meyer\, « Infinitesimal Action » \n \nMargarida Hermida\, « The modal structure of biology »
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/workshop-possibility-and-necessity-in-science/
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Jade Fletcher\, "The Role of Values in Feminist Metaphysics"
DESCRIPTION:Series: Metametaphysics \nSpeaker: Jade Fletcher (University of St-Andrews) \nTitle: « The Role of Values in Feminist Metaphysics » \nAbstract \nThis paper concerns an apparent tension between the normative political commitments of feminism and the objective truth-seeking aims of metaphysics. Metaphysical theories are essentially descriptive – they are in the business of giving explanatory and descriptively adequate representations of what the world is like. This isn’t to say that metaphysics is a value neutral enterprise\, but the constitutive aim of descriptive accuracy constrains the sorts of values that are admissible: values are admissible to the extent that they increase proximity to truth. By contrast\, feminist metaphysics aims to build theories that are supportive of\, and conducive to\, feminist justice. When giving metaphysical theories about the nature of gender\, sexualities\, the self\, reason\, nature\, mind and body\, etc. feminists metaphysicians claim that traditional metaphysics has either ignored certain kinds of metaphysical questions or has constructed theories which have been influenced by androcentric and patriarchal values. Metaphysical theories can support or hinder emancipatory social projects and feminist metaphysics aims to furnish us with theories which support such efforts. It must therefore incorporate values which go beyond the abstract values which promote descriptive adequacy and truth. \nThis invites an important methodological question: doesn’t the incorporation of feminist values into the methodological toolkit of metaphysics compromise its status as a descriptive enterprise? We can articulate this worry running in both directions. For feminist metaphysicians\, the worry will be that there is a non-contingent hostility from traditional metaphysics to philosophical projects concerned with building theories about the nature of reality which are in the serve of justice. For traditional metaphysicians\, the worry will be that taking justice-conduciveness to be a constraint on the construction and acceptability of metaphysical theories mischaracterizes the explanatory\, truth-seeking\, descriptive nature of metaphysical inquiry. \nThe aim of this paper is threefold. First\, I motivate this apparent tension: we have reason to worry that the pursuit of truth and the pursuit of justice might pull metaphysical theories about the nature of social reality in different directions. Second\, I identify two desiderata for any acceptable reconciliation of this putative tension\, that are derived from the shortcomings of the pre-existing responses. Previous responses to this tension have either compromised the descriptive ambitions of metaphysics or they have ended up problematically curtailing the force of the relevant feminist commitments. Finally\, I articulate a way of dissolving the tension which doesn’t compromise the demands of truth or justice. I offer a methodology for social metaphysics which can explain why we should think that truth and justice do not pull theories in different directions.
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-may-16/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Giusepinna D'Oro\, “Presuppositional Analysis and the Goal of Metaphysical Inquiry”
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/N1EnkXz3I7Y \nSeries: Metametaphysics \nSpeaker: Giusepinna D’Oro (Keele University) \nTitle: “Presuppositional Analysis and the Goal of Metaphysical Inquiry” \n  \nYou can also watch the presentation on her book Why Collingwood Matters. A Defence of Humanistic Understanding (2023\, Bloomsbury): https://youtu.be/SfpQwlS-gok
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-may-23/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Ivan Kuzin\, “The Concept of Information and New Phenomena in Molecular Biology”
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/X1jFrayaRos \nSeries: MolDevBio \nSpeaker: Ivan Kuzin (University of Linz) \nTitle: “The Concept of Information and New Phenomena in Molecular Biology” \nAbstract \nThe concept of information is embedded in the discourse of molecular biology\, and is typically interpreted semantically (i.e.\, as the transmission of an instruction or description). However\, this interpretation is difficult to naturalize\, which has led to controversy in the philosophy of biology. New phenomena in molecular biology\, such as intrinsically disordered protein regions and biomolecular condensates\, raise questions about the properties of semantic information\, including non-ubiquity\, functionality\, and the arbitrariness of correspondence. Understanding these phenomena in the informational context may require turning to science (soft matter physics and complex systems theory)\, philosophy (causal emergency and causal specificity)\, and even the history of science (weak specificity).
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-may-30/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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