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The conference “Real Possibilities, Indeterminism and Free Will” will take place at the University of Konstanz, Germany on 18-21 March 2015.
The conference will mark the final phases of two ongoing projects at the University of Konstanz:
What is really possible? Philosophical explorations in branching-history based real modality
funded by a VIDI grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO),
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Indeterminism Ltd. An intervention on the free will debate
funded by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).
The first project centers on formal and metaphysical aspects of real possibilities for the future. The second project centers on the role that the open future can play for understanding agency in our indeterministic world. The goal of this conference is to provide a forum for discussing those two lines of research and their intersection.
Organization
The workshop is organized by Thomas Müller and his group:
Marius Backmann
Michael De
Jesse Mulder
Dawa Ometto
Tim Räz
Antje Rumberg
Niels van Miltenburg
Verena Wagner
Contact
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via RPIFW2015@uni-konstanz.de.
Sponsors
This event is made possible by funding from:
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
European Research Council (ERC)
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Registration
In order to register for the conference, please send an email to RPIFW2015@uni-konstanz.de by 1 March 2015.
We ask for a conference fee of € 30 to be paid on arrival. For students there is a reduced fee of € 15 .
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Programme
The conference will start on Wednesday, March 18 in the late afternoon and end on Saturday, March 21 around noon. The programme consists of a mix of invited and contributed talks.
Invited speakers
Rani Lill Anjum
Jan Broersen
Ruth Groff
Jeff Horty
Geert Keil
Erasmus Mayr
Stephen Mumford
Tim O’Connor
Peter Øhrstrøm
John Pemberton
Tomasz Placek
Gottfried Seebaß
Helen Steward
Barbara Vetter
Schedule
The full programme including abstracts can be downloaded here.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 (room A 701)
| 16:00 | Registration (Level A7) |
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| 17:00-18:30 | Keynote Lecture |
| Ruth Groff: Powers, Agency and the Free Will Problematic |
Thursday, March 19, 2015 (room A 701)
| 09:00-10:30 | Thomas Müller and group: |
| Introduction |
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| 10:45-11:45 | Peter Øhrstrøm: |
| A.N. Prior’s Philosophical and Tense-logical Analysis of the Problem of Human Freedom |
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| 12:00-13:00 | Helen Steward: |
| What is Determinism? — Why we should Ditch the Entailment Definition |
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| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
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| 14:30-15:30 | Rani Lill Anjum and Stephen Mumford: |
| Causation is Not Your Enemy |
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| 15:45-16:45 | John Pemberton: |
| Possibilities from Powers |
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| 17:00-18:00 | Barbara Vetter: |
| Dispositions, Necessary Masks, and Counterpossibles |
Friday, March 20, 2015
| 09:00 -10:00 | Geert Keil (room A 701): | |
| What is Wrong with the Luck Objection?
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| Parallel session 1 (room A 704)
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Parallel session 2 (room A 701)
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| 10:15-11:00 | Guiliano Torrengo and Samuele Iaquinto: | Verena Wagner: |
| The Invisible Thin Red Line |
Reconciling Projects |
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| 11:15-12:00 | Jesse Mulder: | Anne Sophie Spann: Indeterministic |
| Two Perspectives on Time |
Compatibilism: A Third Way between | |
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Compatibilism and Incompatibilism?
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| 12:15-13:00 | Tibor Földes: Double-Indexing, | Jacob Rosenthal: Libertarianism |
| Propositional Identity and Obtainment |
and the Problem of Clear Cases
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| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | Lunch |
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| 14:30-15:30 | Jan Broersen: | Gottfried Seebaß: Can Quantum Physics |
| A Spatial Stit-logic Approach | Ground Indeterminism? Philosophical | |
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Remarks on a Controversial Problem
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| 15:45-16:30 | Simon Kittle: | Federica Della Grotta: |
| Abilities, Circumstances and Possibilities |
What is the Future that Sets us Free? |
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| 16:45-17:30 | Florian Fischer: | Anna Drozdzewska: Free Will, |
| Localized Dispositions and Global Laws |
Indeterminism and the Missing Context
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
| Parallel session 1 (room A 704)
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Parallel session 2 (room A 701)
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| 09:00-10:00 | Tomasz Placek: | Erasmus Mayr: |
| In Praise of Forks
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The Relevance of Alternatives |
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| 10:15-11:00 | Jacek Wawer and Leszek Wronski: | Georg Gasser: Human Agents |
| A New Theory of Historical Counterfactuals |
as Rational Powerful Particulars
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| 11:00-11:45 | Frederik Van De Putte: | Katarzyna Paprzycka: |
| Possibilities, Abilities, and Obligations |
Two-Way Two-Gear Powers |
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| 12:00-13:30 | Keynote Lecture (room A 701) | |
| Tim O’Connor: The Dead Hand of the Past
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Venue and Travel Information
The conference takes place at the University of Konstanz in rooms A701 and A704.
Here you find information on getting to the university campus.
The nearest airports are the small regional airport of Friedrichshafen (with regular train and boat connections to Konstanz), Germany, and the international airport of Zurich, Switzerland (with regular direct train connections to Konstanz).
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Accommodation
We have reserved hotel rooms at Hotel Ibis at a special rate. The rates are €69,- per night for a single and €99,- per night for a double room, including breakfast. In order to book a reserved room at a special rate, please contact the hotel using the keyword “RPIFW2015”. The reservation is valid until 9 February 2015 (extended deadline).
Note that Konstanz is a very popular tourist destination. Therefore, we advise to book your hotel rooms well in advance.
If you need any assistance, please contact us.
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Call for Abstracts (closed)
Programme Committee & invited discussants
Mark Balaguer
Fabrice Correia
Daan Evers
Katarzyna Paprzycka
Roland Pöllinger
Wlodek Rabinowicz
Jacob Rosenthal
Hans Rott
Markus Schrenk
Anne Sophie Spann
Niko Strobach
Kadri Vihvelin
David Widerker
Alberto Zanardo
We invite abstracts on all topics related to the conference theme. Blinded abstracts of 500-1000 words should be submitted by 15 November 2014 via Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rpifw2015. In the Easy Chair system you will be asked to upload your blinded abstract in pdf format and enter a brief summary of about 100 words into the abstract field. Papers should be suited for 30 minutes presentations (+ 10 minutes discussion). The language of the conference is English.
In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via RPIFW2015@uni-konstanz.de.
Timeline
| Submission: | November 15, 2014 |
| Notification: | January 15, 2015 |
| Conference: | March 18-21, 2015 |
Date/Time
Date(s) - 18/03/2015 - 21/03/2015
All Day
Location
University of Konstanz
