[pghawis] Reductionism conference

Dear AWIS members: I just received word of this interesting conference. If you have time this weekend, you may be interested in attending. It is at the University of Pittsburgh. Sorry that I did not post it sooner to our calendar but I just found out about it. Best - Stephanie


The Robert and Sarah Boote Conference in Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism
in Physics

Saturday & Sunday, April 22 & 23, 2006
817R Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh
(Center for Philosophy of Science)


Saturday, 22 April 2006

9:30 Continental Breakfast

Morning Session: Reduction
10:00 Reduction and Renormalization Robert Batterman, University of Western
Ontario

11:15 Coffee Break

11:45 The Gibbs Paradox
Jos Uffink, Utrecht University

1:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session: Emergence

2:30 Making Complexity: From Splashes to Intelligent Design
Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago

3:45 Coffee Break

4:15 Varieties of Explanatory Autonomy
Lawrence Sklar, University of Michigan


Sunday, 23 April 2006

 9:30 Continental Breakfast

10:00 Round Table Discussion
Chuang Liu, University of Florida Margaret Morrison, University of Toronto
Mark Wilson, University of Pittsburgh
And the Speakers



www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr

412-624-1052; 412-624-0905





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