Program of the Conference
„The Ontological Commitments of Dispositionalism“
Innsbruck July 31 – August 2, 2013

July 31, 2013
09.15 – 09.20 Bruno Niederbacher (Innsbruck): Address of Welcome
09.20 – 09.30 Edmund Runggaldier (Innsbruck): Introduction
09.30 – 10.15 Stephen Mumford (Nottingham): Carnap and the Anglo-Austrian Conspiracy against Dispositions
10.15 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.00 Max Kistler (Paris): Natural Powers and Laws of Nature
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
15.00 – 15.45 Anna Marmodoro (Oxford): Structural Powers
15.45 – 16.15 Discussion
16.15 – 16.45 Break
16.45 – 17.30 Jonathan Lowe (Durham): Essential versus Accidental Dispositions in the Four-Category Ontology
17.30 – 18.00 Discussion
19.00 Dinner
   
August 1, 2013
09.30 – 10.15 Neil E. Williams (Buffalo): What is a Manifestation?
10.15 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.00 Anne Sophie Spann (Innsbruck): Dynamism and the Power to Persist
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.15 Jonathan Jacobs (St. Louis): Dispositions need Substances
15.15 – 15.45 Discussion
15.45 – 16.15 Break
16.15 – 17.00 Josef Quitterer (Innsbruck): The Ontology of Mental Dispositions
17.00 – 17.30 Discussion
17.30 – 17.45 Break
17.45 – 18.30 Ruth Groff (St. Louis): What Does the Doing? On Powers, Things and Powerful Things
18.30 – 19.00 Discussion
19.30 Dinner
   
August 2, 2013
09.30 – 10.15 Rani Lill Anjum (Oslo): Powers, Causation and Probability
10.15 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.00 John Heil (St. Louis): Ontology of Powers
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion
12.30 Lunch


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