Convegno: EMERGENCE AND CAUSATION

23-25 SEPTEMBER 2015

SPEAKERS: Leon de Bruin / Mario De Caro / Timothy O’Connor / Victor Gijsbers / Carl Gillett / Simone Gozzano / John Heil / Robin F. Hendry / Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson / Stephan Leuenberger / Francesco Orilia / Michele Paolini Paoletti / Robert D. Rupert

PROGRAMME / THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH / MORNING SESSION
Chair: Simone Gozzano / Università degli Studi dell’Aquila

9.30 / Carl Gillett / Northern Illinois University
Scientific Emergentism and Its Move Beyond Downward Causation: Understanding Mutualism and Machresis

10.30 / Mario De Caro / Università degli Studi Roma III
Downward Causation and Naturalism

11.30 / Break

12.00 / Michele Paolini Paoletti / Università degli Studi di Macerata
Downward, Substance, Structural Causation

13.00 / Lunch

PROGRAMME / THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH / AFTERNOON SESSION
Chair: Francesco Orilia / Università degli Studi di Macerata

15.00 / John Heil / Washington University in St. Louis
Downward Causation

16.00 / Simone Gozzano / Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Mental Causation and the Compatibility of Downward Causation and Emergence

17.00 / Break

17.30 / Leon de Bruin / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen - Victor Gijsbers / Universiteit Leiden
Interventionism, Agency and Causal Exclusion

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The abstracts of the talks and more details about the project are available here: www.emergenceinmacerata.it