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Metaphysics of Science Conference
Program Schedule
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Conference Venue: |
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• Lecture Room 414 & 401, Orbis Hall, Seoul Campus of Kyung Hee University
• The president's welcoming address and all plenary talks will be given at 414 |
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Tuesday,
August 3, 2010
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Wednesday,
August 4, 2010
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TIME
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PROGRAM
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METAPHYSICS
SESSION (Venue: 414)
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PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
SESSION (Venue: 401)
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10:00
am
– 10:50 am
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Eline Busck Gundersen (University of Oslo, Norway)
The metaphysical modesty of conditional
accounts of dispositions
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Jinho Kang (Seoul National Univ, Korea)
Chomsky and Wittgenstein against
referential semantics
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10:50
am
– 11:40 am
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Lars Bo Gundersen (Aarhus University, Denmark )
Knowledge, cognitive dispositions and conditionals
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Kai-Yuan Cheng (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan)
The meaning of disposition ascriptions: a
Wittgensteinian approach
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11:40
am
– 1:00 pm
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LUNCH
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1:00
pm
– 2:30 pm
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Alexander
Bird (Bristol University,
UK)
The ontology of natural kinds
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2:30
pm
– 2:40 pm
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MOVING
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REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM
SESSION (Venue: 401)
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2:40
pm
– 3:30 pm
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Chunghyoung Lee (California State University, Fresno, USA / POSTECH, Korea)
Before-effect, Zeno causality or no
(Known) cause |
Takahiro Yamada (Kyoto University, Japan)
The "truth-value links" problem
for anti-realism about the Past
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3:30
pm
– 4:20 pm
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Toby Handfield (Monash University, Australia)
The concept of chance
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Reuy-Lin Chen (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan)
Experimental realism and realization
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4:20
pm
– 4:40 pm
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COFFE
BREAK
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5:30 pm
– 6:20 pm |
Tora Koyama (Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan)
Fundamentality and ideology |
Shin Kim (Hankuk Univ of Foreign Studies, Korea)
Abstract entities and the inference to the best explanation |
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4:40
pm
– 5:30 pm
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Simon Langford (Hannam University, Korea)
The no persistence conditions thesis
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Yasuo Nakayama (Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka
University, Japan)
A nominalistic theory of multiple
languages and its application to debates on scientific realism
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8:00 pm –
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GET-TOGETHER OVER BEER OF EAST-ASIAN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHERS |
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Thursday,
August 5, 2010
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TIME
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PROGRAM
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PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
SESSION (Venue: 414)
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PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS
SESSION (Venue: 401)
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10:00
am
– 10:50 am
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Itay Shani (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Mind stuffed with red herrings: on aggregates, unities, and James' argument against the ¡°Self-compounding of mental fact
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Huw Price (University of Sydney, Australia)
Human incapacities and their metaphysical significance
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10:50
am
– 11:40 am
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Young E Rhee (Kangwon National Univ, Korea)
How can functionalism support the extended mind hypothesis
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Takeshi Sakon (Osaka University, Japan)
Why are there no time-travellers?: from a presentist point of view
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11:40
am
– 1:00 pm
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LUNCH
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1:00
pm
– 2:30 pm
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Helen
Beebee (University of
Birmingham, UK)
Is causation scalar?
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2:30
pm
– 2:40 pm
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MOVING
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2:40
pm
– 3:30 pm
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Youngjin Kiem (Kyonggi Univ, Korea)
How is it possible to represent non-existent entities? (Toward a solution to the puzzle about the intentionality of consciousness)
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Adam Murray (Toronto University, Canada)
Actualism and Mere Possibilia |
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3:30
pm
– 4:20 pm
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Masaki Ichinose (Tokyo University, Japan)
Degrees of freedom and life science
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Yingjin Xu (Fudan University, China)
How to Tell a Propositional-Attitude-Eliminating Story on Cognition without Eliminating Contents?
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4:20
pm
– 6:00 pm
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TEA
TIME
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