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

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