Programme (final)

Thursday, 9 October

  9:00-9:20    Henrik Zinkernagel: Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop

Morning Session Chair: Henrik Zinkernagel

  9:30-10:10   Rani Anjum and Stephen Mumford: For Methodological Pluralism in the Causal Sciences     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

10:40-11:20   M. J. García-Encinas: Is Science a Limit to Metaphysics?     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

11:45-12:20   Coffee Break

12:20-13:00   María Cerezo: Towards a liberal naturalism - with a view to philosophy of biology     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

13:25-15:30   Lunch Break

Afternoon Session Chair: M. J. García-Encinas

15:30-16:10   Claus Emmeche: Borderology and the limits of multiple sciences     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

16:35-17:10   Coffee Break

17:10-17:50   Álvaro Moreno: The limits of science as biological limits of human beings     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

Friday, 10 October

Morning Session Chair: Adán Sus

  9:30-10:10   Jan Faye: How evolution sets the cognitive limits of science. Exemplified by possible worlds, many worlds and multiworlds     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

10:40-11:20   Mauro Dorato: The now, the passage of time and the limits of physics     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

11:45-12:20   Coffee Break

12:20-13:00   Svend E. Rugh and Henrik Zinkernagel: On the limits of physics and cosmology     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

13:25-15:30   Lunch Break

Afternoon Session Chair: Mario Bacelar

15:30-16:10   Henk de Regt: The limits of scientific understanding     Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

16:35-17:10   Coffee Break

17:10-18:00   Open round table discussion on the limits of science, with introductions by Adán Sus and Mario Bacelar

20:30   Workshop Dinner at the Parador de Granada