Conference: Humeanism and the Laws of Nature

A conference on Barry Loewer’s upcoming book, What Breathes Fire Into the Equations?

Talk abstracts and participant list (pdf)

Saturday  April 22: 10am-6pm Eastern

Registration URL: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpcu6hpz8rG9FW81SyqDMEiFRsjUNj4n1C

Sunday April 23: 10am-6pm Eastern

Registration URL: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrduyhqD0pEtIWK4_xjOlPaY4MRpi2LuJw

Saturday, April 22

9:45 – 10:00      Introductory Remarks

10:00 – 11:30    David Albert (Columbia)

Barry & Alison’s Idea about Evaluating Counterfactuals

11:40 – 1:10      Harjit Bhogal (UMD College Park)

Does anything explain the regularity of the world?

1:10 – 3:00        Lunch

3:00 – 4:30        Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Package Deal Ontology

4:40 – 6:10       Marc Lange (UNC Chapel Hill)

A “misleading metaphor left over from the concept of law’s theological origin”?

Sunday, April 23

10:00 – 11:30   Eddy Chen (UCSD)

Strong Determinism

11:40 – 1:10    Michael Hicks (University of Birmingham)

Unpacking the Deal: How Can Properties Arise from Regularities?

1:10 – 3:00        Lunch

3:00 – 4:30      Isaac Wilhelm (National University of Singapore)

Size

4:40 – 6:10      Barry Loewer (Rutgers)

What Breathes Fire into the Equations?