Real Possibilities, Indeterminism and Free Will

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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.

 

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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),

and

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)

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


10:45-11:45 Peter Øhrstrøm:
A.N. Prior’s Philosophical and Tense-logical Analysis of the Problem of Human Freedom


12:00-13:00 Helen Steward:
What is Determinism? — Why we should Ditch the Entailment Definition


13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Rani Lill Anjum and Stephen Mumford:
Causation is Not Your Enemy


15:45-16:45 John Pemberton:
Possibilities from Powers


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?


Parallel session 1 (room A 704)


Parallel session 2 (room A 701)


10:15-11:00 Guiliano Torrengo and Samuele Iaquinto: Verena Wagner:
The Invisible Thin Red Line


Reconciling Projects


11:15-12:00 Jesse Mulder: Anne Sophie Spann: Indeterministic
Two Perspectives on Time
Compatibilism: A Third Way between
 


Compatibilism and Incompatibilism?


12:15-13:00 Tibor Földes: Double-Indexing, Jacob Rosenthal: Libertarianism
Propositional Identity and Obtainment


and the Problem of Clear Cases


13:00-14:30 Lunch Lunch


14:30-15:30 Jan Broersen: Gottfried Seebaß: Can Quantum Physics
A Spatial Stit-logic Approach Ground Indeterminism? Philosophical
to Real Possibilities


Remarks on a Controversial Problem


15:45-16:30 Simon Kittle: Federica Della Grotta:
Abilities, Circumstances and Possibilities


What is the Future that Sets us Free?


16:45-17:30 Florian Fischer: Anna Drozdzewska: Free Will,
Localized Dispositions and Global Laws


Indeterminism and the Missing Context


Saturday, March 21, 2015

Parallel session 1 (room A 704)


Parallel session 2 (room A 701)


09:00-10:00 Tomasz Placek: Erasmus Mayr:
In Praise of Forks


The Relevance of Alternatives


10:15-11:00 Jacek Wawer and Leszek Wronski: Georg Gasser: Human Agents
A New Theory of Historical Counterfactuals


as Rational Powerful Particulars


11:00-11:45 Frederik Van De Putte: Katarzyna Paprzycka:
Possibilities, Abilities, and Obligations


Two-Way Two-Gear Powers


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

 


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Date/Time
Date(s) - 18/03/2015 - 21/03/2015
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Location
University of Konstanz