NoMoS Conference
12- 14 June 2023
Lecture Rooms
Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Athens
Webex Link
The first conference organised by NoMoS!
Keynote Speaker: Philip Kitcher​
Schedule
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Monday 12 June 2023
10.00 am -11.00 am Michel Ghins (UC Louvain)
‘Powers without essences: a necessitarian account of laws of nature’
11:15 am-12:15 pm Stavros Ioannidis (University of Athens)
‘Laws and Powers in Descartes’
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Coffee Break
12:45 pm-01:45 pm Robert DiSalle (University of Western Ontario)
‘Natural laws and metaphysical necessities: On the ineffective reasonableness of mathematics
Lunch Break until 03.30 pm
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3.30 pm -4.30 pm Vanessa Seifert (University of Athens)
‘The (many) laws of the periodic table’
Coffee break until 5.00 pm
5.00 pm -6.30 pm Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)
‘The theory of scientific explanation: an obituary’
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6:30 pm-7:00 pm Award of «Vana Grigoropoulou» prize
Dinner at Oinothura
Tuesday 13th June
10.00 am -11.00 am Giacomo Giannini (LSE)
‘Unmasking the Big Bad Bug for Dispositionalism: Necessary Perfect Masks, Degrees, and Locality.’
11.15 am -12.15 pm Vassilis Livanios (University of Cyprus)
‘Powerful Qualities and the Dualist Model’
Coffee Break
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12.45 pm -01.45 pm Toby Friend (University of Bristol)
‘Nature's Just Laws’
Lunch Break until 03.30 pm
3.30 pm -4.30 pm Maria Panagiotatou (University of Athens)
‘Wave function: law, power, both, or neither?’
Coffee break until 5.00 pm
5.00 pm -6.00 pm Wayne Myrvold (University of Western Ontario)
‘Varieties of Wave Function Realism’
Dinner
Wednesday 14th June
10.00 am -11.00 am Antonis Antoniou (University of Athens)
'Making sense of laws in Cosmology'
11.15 am -12.15 pm Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona)
‘Kripke-Putnam essentialism about water and the laws/powers debate’
Coffee Break
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12.45 pm -01.45 pm Francesca Bellazzi (University of Bristol)
‘Biochemical powers’
Lunch Break until 03.30 pm
3.30 pm -5.00 pm Stathis Psillos (University of Athens) with commentary by Mauro Dorato (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
‘Natural Necessity De-Ockhamised: a Leibnizian account’
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End of Conference