Ernst Mach Workshop IX 2020: Non-causal explanation in physics

Sept. 17–18, 2020

Institute of Philosophy, Jilska 1, Prague, Czech Republic

Invited speakers

Sorin Bangu (Bergen)
Lina Jansson (Nottingham)
Juha Saatsi (Leeds)
Lukáš Zámečník (Olomouc)

PROGRAMME

Time zone: CEST (UTC + 2)

DAY 1 (Thursday, September 17, 2020)

13:30 – 14:50 Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds)
A functional “understanding-first“ approach to non-causal explanations

15:00 – 15:50 Martin King (University of Bonn)
Explanations with (and of) the Higgs Mechanism

16:10 – 17:30 Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham)
Counterfactuals and explanatory directionality

17:40 – 18:30 Joaquim Giannotti & Silvia Bianchi (University of Glasgow, Institute for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia)
Grounding Ontic Structural Realism and Metaphysical Explanation

DAY 2 (Friday, September 18, 2020)

13:30 – 14:50 Lukáš Zámečník (Palacky University in Olomouc)
Are distinctively mathematical explanations ad hoc explanations?

15:00 – 15:50 Antonio Vassallo (Warsaw University of Technology)
Hybrid Explanations in General Relativity and Quantum Gravity

16:10 – 17:30 Sorin Bangu (University of Bergen)
Formalist explanations in physics

17:40 – 18:30 Nicholas Danne (University of South Carolina)
Mathematical Realism, Program Explanation, and Seeing Red