The Metaphysics of Social Powers

Conference

THE METAPHYSICS OF SOCIAL POWERS
Program 

6TH FEBRUARY (THURSDAY) 

08:45-09:00 : Introduction 


09:00-10:00  Tim Juvshik, Middlebury College, “Technological Neutrality and the Normativity of Artifacts.”

10:15-11:15  Jonas Amar, Ecole Normale Supérieure, “The Reduction of Essence to Dispositions.” 


11:30-12:30 Anne-Sophie Meincke, Vienna University, “Free will as a social power.” 

LUNCH BREAK

14:30-15:30 Åsa Burman & Nemi Pelgrom, Stockholm University,  “Telic Power and Academic Excellence.”

 

15:45-16:45 Andrea Loi, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, “ Deontic powers in the animal world.”

 

19:30 DINNER CONFERENCE

 

7TH FEBRUARY (FRIDAY)   

09:00 - 10:00  Frank Hindriks, University of Groningen,  “The Power of Social Structures.”  

10:15 - 11:15  Tobias Hansson Wahlberg, Lund University, “A Deflationary Truthmakers Account of Institutional Properties.”

11:30 - 12:30  Daniel James, Humboldt-University of Berlin,  “Nothing Personal: Karl Marx on the Metaphysics of Capitalist Domination.”