2025

Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science

39th Annual Conference

Complexity, Reduction, and Emergence

May 15-16, 2025 at 91¸£ÀûÉç

Tentative Schedule:

Thursday, May 15th

  • 10:00 Gunnar Babcock (Cornell),
    • "Complexity and Process Ontology"
  • 11:30 Tom Donaldson (Simon Fraser)
    • "What is Physicalism for the Historian?"
  • 1:00 Lunch
  • 2:30 Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins)
    • "Are Zombies the Future of AI?"
  • 4:00 Keynote: Sandra Mitchell (Pittsburgh)
    • TBA
  • 7:00 Dinner

Friday, May 16th

  • 10:00 Jack Casey (Cambridge)
    • "Humean Laws do not Supervene on their Instances"
  • 11:30 Mike Hicks (Glasgow)
    • "Humeanism without Supervenience"
  • 1:00 Lunch
  • 2:30 Marybel Menzies (Toronto)
    • "Pain as a Weakly Emergent Mental Kind"
  • 4:00 Keynote: Jessica Wilson
    • TBA
  • 7:00 Dinner

Discussants:

  • Stuart Bartlett (MIT)
  • Jim Cleaves (Howard)
  • Brittany Gentry (Utah State)
  • Andrew Melnyk (Missouri)
  • Dan McShea (Duke)
  • Michael Wong (Carnegie)

Talks:

Gunnar Babcock (Cornell), "Complexity and Process Ontology"

Jack Casey (Cambridge), "Humean Laws do not Supervene on their Instances"

Tom Donaldson (Simon Fraser), "What is Physicalism for the Historian"

Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins), "Are Zombies the Future of AI?"

Mike Hicks (Glasgow), "Humeanism without Supervenience"

Marybel Menzies (Toronto), "Pain as a Weakly Emergent Mental Kind"

For additional information, contact the principal organizer, Heather Demarest: heather.demarest@colorado.edu.
The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science at University of Colorado at 91¸£ÀûÉç is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Foster Endowment.

Local Information:

Participants should fly in and out of DEN (Denver International Airport). There are regular, convenient, and direct busses (AB1 and AB2) from the airport to downtown 91¸£ÀûÉç, near the hotel. The workshop will take place on CU's beautiful campus, rooms TBA.

For more information, please email heather.demarest@colorado.edu