Home

Program

REDUCTION IN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY

International Workshop in
Philosophy of Physics and Philosophy of Biology

Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad (IFICC), Santiago, Chile
January 4‐6, 2016

PROGRAM

Monday January 4

14:00 Registration
14:15 - 14:30 Welcome
14:30 - 15:20 Stephan Hartmann: Understanding Toy Models
15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:30 Davide Vecchi/Wilfredo Quezada: Of Molecules, Fields and Cells
16:30 - 16:50 Coffee Break
16:50 - 17:40 Leonardo Bich: Emergence, Organisation and Complexity: an Epistemological Account

Tuesday January 5

10:00 - 10:50 Olimpia Lombardi: Ontological Plurality, Reduction and Two Forms of Emergence
10:50 - 11:10 CoffeeBreak
11:10 - 12:00 Patricia Palacios: The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Model for
Phase Transitions
12:00 - 12:50 Samuel Fletcher: Limits of Nagelian Reduction
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Federico Benitez: Contextual emergence and the problem of non-fundamental theories
14:50 - 15:40 Aidan Lyon: Maximum Entropy Explanations in Biology
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50 Maurizio Esposito: Reductionism and Action: Composing and
Decomposing the Life Phenomena


Wednesday January 6

10:00 - 10:50 Ximena González-Grandón: Emergent novelties: a naturalistic proposal to music learning
10:50 - 11:10 CoffeeBreak
11:10 - 12:00 Diego Maltrana/Pablo Razeto: Mass as an ontological emergent property
12:00 - 12:50 José Tomás Alvarado: Reduction, emergence, grounding and other mysteries
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Ramiro Frick: Naturalism, Normativity and the Problem of Biological Functions
14:50 - 15:40 Brad Weslake: Fitness and Variance
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50 Michael Strevens: Reduction, Dependence, and the Sciences of Complexity