Kinds – Topics in Semantics, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
A Genos Workshop
Philosophy, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland
Pinni B4141
June 28 – 29, 2014
Saturday, June 28
9.30-10.45 Christian Nimtz (Bielefeld): Natural Kind Predicates. A Neo-Descriptivist Perspective
10.45-12.00 Jussi Haukioja (Trondheim): From Reference to Essence?
lunch
13.45-15.00 Panu Raatikainen (Helsinki): The Relevance of Reference Borrowing
coffee
15.30-16.45 Tuukka Tanninen (Helsinki): 2D-Epistemics of Natural Kind Predicates
coffee
17.00-18.15 Genos group [Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere), Markku Keinänen (Turku) and Antti Keskinen (Tampere)]: Ontological Commitments of Designation Theory
19.00 dinner
Sunday, June 29
10.30-11.45 Robin Hendry (Durham): Microstructural Essentialism in Chemistry: Problems and Prospects
11.45-13.00 Genos group: Kinds of Tropes
lunch
14.30-15.45 Samuli Pöyhönen (Helsinki): Science without Natural Kinds
Kinds Program poster
Contact: jani.hakkarainen[at]uta.fi
The workshop is kindly funded by the Academy of Finland project Objects, modality, and the propositional attitudes: a Quinean perspective.
The workshop is a Dynamis event – the Finnish Network for Metaphysics.
Disclaimer: it is accidental that the workshop is all male. Four women were invited but all of them had to refuse the invitation.
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