Emergence and Laws
26-27 June 2015 Centre for HPS, University of Leeds
Speakers:
Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)
Roman Frigg (LSE)
Ned Hall (Harvard)
Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Cologne)
Barry Loewer (Rutgers)
Alex Reutlinger (Munich LMU / MCMP)
Juha Saatsi (Leeds)
Markus Schrenk (Duesseldorf)
Venue: Room G36, Baines Wing, School of PRHS, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT
** Registration by Friday 19th of June. There is no fee. **
Programme
Friday 26th
10:30 – Coffee and Welcome
11:00 – 12:15 Ned Hall (Harvard)
‘Ink on paper’
Lunch
13:15 – 14:30 Markus Schrenk (Duesseldorf)
‘Special Science Laws: Their Exceptions and their Emergence’
Coffee
15:00 – 16:15 Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)
‘On spontaneous symmetry-breaking in finite systems’
16:15 – 17:30 Juha Saatsi (Leeds)
‘Emergence and Explanation’
Pub and workshop dinner
Saturday 27th
10:00 –11:15 Barry Loewer (Rutgers)
‘The Reduction of (almost) Everything to Statistical Mechanics’
Coffee
11:45 – 13:00 Roman Frigg (LSE)
‘The anatomy of reduction in statistical mechanics’
Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Cologne)
‘Causal Modelling, Higher-Level Causation and the Problem of Epiphenomenal Relationships’
Coffee
15:45 – 16:15 Alex Reutlinger (LMU Munich)
‘On Scientific and Metaphysical Explanations of Laws’
16:30 Workshop ends.
Post-workshop drinks and dinner to those who wish to stick around.
Emergence in Physics
Friday 27 February 2015 Centre for HPS, University of Leeds
There has been a surge of interest in recent years in emergence in the physical sciences. This workshop examines the case for a robust metaphysical notion of emergence in physics.
Schedule
11:00 – 12:10 James Fraser (University of Leeds)
‘Essential Idealisations and Varieties of Emergence’
12:15 – 13:25 Tom Lancaster (Durham University)
‘The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: A Case for Strong Emergence’
Lunch
14:30 – 15:40 Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds)
‘Emergence and Laws: The Case of ‘Weak Metaphysical’ Emergence’
15:50 – 17:00 Alexander Reutlinger (LMU Munich)
‘Renormalization Group Explanation – Reduction or Emergence?’
Dinner and drinks
Venue: CETL University of Leeds, 8-12 Fenton Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT
Juha Saatsi 