Filosofia
- Reduction And Emergence In The Sciences
LMU Munich14-16 November 2013 http://www.lmu.de/reductionandemergence/ Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. For instance, a reducible theory is in some sense replaceable but also...
- Plato And Xenophon
Call for Papers Plato and Xenophon: Comparative Studies June 9-12, 2014 -- Bar Ilan University (Israel) Despite the prime importance of Plato, and the historical value and intrinsic interest of Xenophon, relations between these two students of Socrates...
- Minds Without Magic: The Natural Basis Of Intentionality
Bielefeld, 18th to 19th September 2013 Organized by Peter Schulte and Christian Nimtz Talk about intentional states and mental content is deeply entrenched in folk psychology, scientific psychology and cognitive ethology. Nevertheless, intentionality...
- Galen Strawson On Panpsychism
Could everything that exists have experiences? Is there something that it is like to be an electron? This sounds unlikey on first hearing, but in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Galen Strawson argues in conversation with Nigel...
- The Metaphysics Of Free Will: Empowerment, Agency And Freedom
UMB, 21-22 February 2013 Does our freedom consist in us being causes of our own action? Would such freedom be threatened if we were bound by laws of nature? And do such laws constrain only our bodies but not our thoughts? The ancient problem of free...
Filosofia
Panpsychism, Russellian monism and the nature of the physical
August 23rd-24th 2013,
University of Oslo,
Georg Morgenstiernes hus, room 652
Call for registration
It seems that physics can only tell us about the relational or dispositional structure of the physical. Fundamental physical properties such as spin, mass and charge can be exhaustively characterized in terms of their relations to other fundamental properties. But there is reason to think that relations need relata with intrinsic properties, and dispositions need categorical grounds. What can we say about this aspect of the physical, if physics is silent about it? Some hope that a scientific revolution could eventually give us access to physical intrinsic properties; others think we will always remain ignorant about them. But some suggest that we should consider the fact that mental properties are intrinsic and categorical, and are in fact the only such properties we know with certainty to exist. Could mental properties be the intrinsic ground of everything physical? This is what Russellian monist panpsychism affirms. This conference will explore the details and motivations of this radical metaphysical view.
Confirmed speakers:
David Chalmers
Sam Coleman
Philip Goff
Hedda Hassel
John Heil
William Seager
Galen Strawson
Attendance is free and all are welcome, but please register by email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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- Reduction And Emergence In The Sciences
LMU Munich14-16 November 2013 http://www.lmu.de/reductionandemergence/ Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. For instance, a reducible theory is in some sense replaceable but also...
- Plato And Xenophon
Call for Papers Plato and Xenophon: Comparative Studies June 9-12, 2014 -- Bar Ilan University (Israel) Despite the prime importance of Plato, and the historical value and intrinsic interest of Xenophon, relations between these two students of Socrates...
- Minds Without Magic: The Natural Basis Of Intentionality
Bielefeld, 18th to 19th September 2013 Organized by Peter Schulte and Christian Nimtz Talk about intentional states and mental content is deeply entrenched in folk psychology, scientific psychology and cognitive ethology. Nevertheless, intentionality...
- Galen Strawson On Panpsychism
Could everything that exists have experiences? Is there something that it is like to be an electron? This sounds unlikey on first hearing, but in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Galen Strawson argues in conversation with Nigel...
- The Metaphysics Of Free Will: Empowerment, Agency And Freedom
UMB, 21-22 February 2013 Does our freedom consist in us being causes of our own action? Would such freedom be threatened if we were bound by laws of nature? And do such laws constrain only our bodies but not our thoughts? The ancient problem of free...