Upcoming Conferences I

Emmy Noether Armchair Lab: Issues in Philosophical Methodology

28-29 July

University of Cologne

The first in our series of Emmy Noether Armchair Labs will be a workshop on issues in philosophical methodology, with featured speakers Tamar Szabó Gendler and Zoltán Gendler Szabó of the Yale University philosophy department. Here is the schedule:

Tuesday, 28 July: Meta-Ontology

13:00-15:00 Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale)

The Ontological Attitude

15:30-16:30 Benjamin Schnieder (Humboldt Uni Berlin)

The Logic of ‘Because’

16:45-17:45 Brendan Balcerak Jackson (Köln)

Are Ontological Debates Merely Verbal Disputes?

Wednesday, 29 July: Thought Experiments

10:00-12:00 Tamar Szabó Gendler (Yale)

Philosophical Methodology from an Empirical Point of View

13:30-14:30 Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (Köln)

Thought Experiments and Model-Based Philosophy

14:45-15:45 Christian Nimtz (Erlangen)

Thought Experiments, Counterfactual Thinking, and the Limits of Empiricism