Sept. 17–18, 2020
Institute of Philosophy, Jilska 1, Prague, Czech Republic
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Programme and Abstracts
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