INDUCTIVE METAPHYSICS
  • Subprojects 2017-2020
    • A1: The Research Programme of Inductive Metaphysics from Gustav Theodor Fechner to Erich Becher and beyond
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and Its Role for Inductive Metaphysics in Comparison to Other Metaphysical Methods
    • A4: Kant and Inductive Methods in 18th Century Metaphysics
    • B1: Modality in Physics and in Metaphysics
    • B2: Properties and Property Individuation
    • B4: Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument
    • B5: Statistical Causation, Intervention, and Freedom
  • Subprojects 2020-2023
    • A1: Inductive Metaphysics and Logical Empiricism
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and its Role for Inductive Metaphysics
    • A4: Inductive Methods in Kant and Neo-Kantianism
    • B6: The Role of Inference to the best explanation in the discovery of Gravitational Waves
    • B7: Graded Causation
    • B8: The Time of science and the time of our lives
    • B9: Complex biological dispositions: a case study in the metaphysics of biological practice
    • B10: Metaphysics of Evolution: justification and ontology of generalized evolution theory
    • B11: Abductive Methodology in the philosophy of logic
  • Events
    • Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects
    • Non-Reductionism in the Metaphysics of Mind
    • Essences, Dispositions and Laws in Kant
    • The Methodology of Logic: Abductivist and Non-abductivist Approaches
    • Grounding and the Direction of Explanation
    • Wochenendseminar zur Philosophie der Physik
    • Dispositions in the Life-Sciences Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
    • New Work on Induction and Abduction
    • Compatibilist Libertarianism: Advantages and Challenges
    • Metaphysics as Modelling. Contemporary and Kantian Issues
    • Laws and Explanations in Metaphysics and Science
    • Causation and Responsibility
    • Thinking About the Cultural Evolution of Thinking
    • Causal Distinctions: Specificity and Beyond
    • Free Will and Causality
    • Epistemic Engineering
    • Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties
    • The Possibility of Metaphysics
    • Abduction and Modelling in Metaphysics
    • Kant's Concepts of Metaphysics
    • Freedom and Determinism
    • What Do We Do When We Do Metaphysics?
    • Properties and Laws in the Light of Inductive Metaphysics
    • Free Will and Laws of Nature
    • Traditional and Inductive Metaphysics
    • Spacetime: Fundamental or Emergent?
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International Workshop

freedom and determinism

International Workshop
Freedom and Determinism
Department of Philosophy , University of Cologne
Richard-Strauss-Str. 2 (Room 1.A13), 50931 Köln, Germany

Oct 04 - Oct 05, 2018

This workshop is organised by Andreas Hüttemann and Christian Loew, as an event of the DFG-Research-Group "Inductive Metaphysics" (FOR 2495).

Description

The workshop is dedicated to recent work on the problem of free will, in particular the compatibility between freedom and determinism.

Speakers
  • Randolph Clarke 
  • Nadine Elzein 
  • Alexander Gebharter
  • Kristin M. Mickelson 
  • Seth Shabo
  • Maria Svedberg 
  • Kadri Vihvelin 

Program

Thursday, Oct 04

09:30 - 10:45

​11:00 - 12:15

12:15 - 01:45

​​01:45 - 03:00

​03:15 - 04:30

​​04:45 - 06:00

​07:00
Nadine Elzein: “Free Choice, Luck and Chancy Processes”

​Seth Shabo: “Undetermined Choices and Normative Expectations: An Argument Against Libertarianism”

lunch

Christian Loew: “Are we Free to Make the Laws?”

​Maria Svedberg: “Compatibilist Abilities”

Kadri Vihvelin: “Ability and Possibility: Impossible Attempts and Attempting the Impossible”

Conference dinner at “Café Feynsinn,” Rathenaupl. 7, 50674 Köln (http://www.cafe-feynsinn.de/).


​Friday, Oct 05

10:00 - 11:15

​11:30 - 12:45

​
​12:45 - 02:00

​02:00 - 03:15
Randolph Clarke: “Free Will and Abilities to Act”
​
Kristin Mickelson: “Motte and Bailey Incompatibilism”

lunch​

​Alexander Gebharter: “Free Will, Control, and the Possibility to do otherwise from a Causal Modeler’s Perspective”

Registration and Travel Expenses

Everybody is welcome, but please send a short email to cloew@uni-koeln.de to let us know you are coming.

Refunds of travel expenses (up to 250 Euros) are possible for a limited number of graduate students and advanced undergraduates. If you are interested, please send a CV and a very short (one paragraph) expression of interest to cloew@uni-koeln.de.
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  • Subprojects 2017-2020
    • A1: The Research Programme of Inductive Metaphysics from Gustav Theodor Fechner to Erich Becher and beyond
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and Its Role for Inductive Metaphysics in Comparison to Other Metaphysical Methods
    • A4: Kant and Inductive Methods in 18th Century Metaphysics
    • B1: Modality in Physics and in Metaphysics
    • B2: Properties and Property Individuation
    • B4: Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument
    • B5: Statistical Causation, Intervention, and Freedom
  • Subprojects 2020-2023
    • A1: Inductive Metaphysics and Logical Empiricism
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and its Role for Inductive Metaphysics
    • A4: Inductive Methods in Kant and Neo-Kantianism
    • B6: The Role of Inference to the best explanation in the discovery of Gravitational Waves
    • B7: Graded Causation
    • B8: The Time of science and the time of our lives
    • B9: Complex biological dispositions: a case study in the metaphysics of biological practice
    • B10: Metaphysics of Evolution: justification and ontology of generalized evolution theory
    • B11: Abductive Methodology in the philosophy of logic
  • Events
    • Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects
    • Non-Reductionism in the Metaphysics of Mind
    • Essences, Dispositions and Laws in Kant
    • The Methodology of Logic: Abductivist and Non-abductivist Approaches
    • Grounding and the Direction of Explanation
    • Wochenendseminar zur Philosophie der Physik
    • Dispositions in the Life-Sciences Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
    • New Work on Induction and Abduction
    • Compatibilist Libertarianism: Advantages and Challenges
    • Metaphysics as Modelling. Contemporary and Kantian Issues
    • Laws and Explanations in Metaphysics and Science
    • Causation and Responsibility
    • Thinking About the Cultural Evolution of Thinking
    • Causal Distinctions: Specificity and Beyond
    • Free Will and Causality
    • Epistemic Engineering
    • Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties
    • The Possibility of Metaphysics
    • Abduction and Modelling in Metaphysics
    • Kant's Concepts of Metaphysics
    • Freedom and Determinism
    • What Do We Do When We Do Metaphysics?
    • Properties and Laws in the Light of Inductive Metaphysics
    • Free Will and Laws of Nature
    • Traditional and Inductive Metaphysics
    • Spacetime: Fundamental or Emergent?
  • People
  • Research
    • Publications
    • Talks
  • Contact