2025, May 14-16: Complexity, Reduction, and Emergence
This conference explores the connections between complexity, reduction, and emergence. It will compare and contrast different notions used throughout philosophy and the sciences.
The 38th Annual «Ƶ Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science is ‘TXM@25 - The Extended Mind at Twenty-Five’. This event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication of Andy Clark and David Chalmers’s enormously influential paper “The Extended Mind” and features keynote lectures by Clark and Chalmers, as well as sixteen other talks. The purpose of the event is to evaluate and build upon extended and situated approaches to mind and cognition.
Advances in cognitive neuroscience promise to shed light on matters of longstanding philosophical interest, including the nature of the self and the contents of thought and perception. At the same time, cognitive neuroscience, as a discipline, is the subject of much philosophical interest. What notion of mental representation, if any, does successful cognitive neuroscience presuppose? What methodological difficulties must be overcome if cognitive neuroscience is to flourish? What is the function of a localized structure or mechanism in the brain? Moreover, cognitive neuroscience provides fertile ground for the exploration of more general questions about methodology and scientific processes, for example, to do with explanation or causal intervention. This conference will provide a venue for the interdisciplinary discussion of all of these issues and more.
This 6th annual conference of the IAPT is hosted by CHPS. Scholars from around the world will present their cutting-edge research from scientific, philosophical, and historical perspectives on the nature of time.
This conference is on a variety of historical and contemporary topics, from both scientific and philosophical perspectives, regarding probability and chance in science.
This conference is on a variety of historical and contemporary topics, from both scientific and philosophical perspectives, regarding the laws of nature.
