BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2008/newsitem/1898/10- 12-April-2008-Sydney-Tilburg-Conference-on-Reducti on-and-the-Special-Sciences-Tilburg DTSTAMP:20070624T000000 SUMMARY:Sydney-Tilburg Conference on "Reduction an d the Special Sciences", Tilburg DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080412 DESCRIPTION:Science presents us with a variety of accounts of the world. While some of these account s posit a deeper theoretical structure and fundame ntal entities, others do not. But which of these a ccounts is the right one? How should science conce ptualize the world? And what is the relation betwe en the various accounts? Opinions on these issu es diverge wildly in philosophy of science. At one extreme are reductionists who argue that higher-l evel theories should, in principle, be incorporate d in or eliminated by the basic level theory. High er-level theories do not ultimately exhibit concep tual integrity or provide genuine explanations. At the other extreme are pluralists who take higher levels of description and explanation seriously an d argue for their independence and indispensabilit y. Our goal in this conference is to bring togethe r representatives from as many viewpoints as possi ble in order to advance our understanding of this problem. We invite case studies from the natural, social and behavioural sciences as well as discuss ions of philosophical models of intertheoretic rel ations. For more information, see http://www.til burguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/tilps/RSS20 08/ We invite submissions of papers of up to 3000 words by 15 November 2007. Decisions will be made by 15 January 2008. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Scien ce presents us with a variety of accounts of the w orld. While\n some of these accounts posit a deeper theoretical structure and\n fundam ental entities, others do not. But which of these accounts is\n the right one? How should sci ence conceptualize the world? And what\n is the relation between the various accounts?\n

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\n Opinions on these\n issues diverge wildly in philosophy of science. At one extreme are\n reductionists who arg ue that higher-level theories should, in\n principle, be incorporated in or eliminated by the basic level\n theory. Higher-level theorie s do not ultimately exhibit conceptual\n in tegrity or provide genuine explanations. At the ot her extreme are\n pluralists who take highe r levels of description and explanation\n s eriously and argue for their independence and indi spensability. Our\n goal in this conference is to bring together representatives from as\n many viewpoints as possible in order to advan ce our understanding of\n this problem. We invite case studies from the natural, social and\n behavioural sciences as well as discussion s of philosophical models\n of intertheoret ic relations.\n

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For more information, see\n http://www.tilburguni versity.nl/faculties/humanities/tilps/RSS2008/ \n

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We invite submissions of papers of up to 3000 words by 15 No vember\n 2007. Decisions will be made by 15 January 2008.\n

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