Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

Structuralism about Physics and Mathematics ConferenceJames LadymanOrganisers: James Ladyman and Øystein Linnebo

There will be a small registration fee to cover costs (probably £5-£10)
payable on arrival. There are also a number of bursaries available for
graduate students to attend. We are gratefully acknowledge the support of
The Analysis Trust.

Please email james.ladyman@bristol.ac.uk if you plan to come to allow us to
estimate numbers.

Programme

Saturday

12.00pm - registration
12.30pm - 2.10pm

James Ladyman (Bristol)
‘On the Identity and Diversity of Objects in a Structure’
reply: John Mayberry (Bristol)

2.30pm Tea and Coffee
2.30pm - 4.10pm

Øystein Linnebo (Bristol) ‘Structuralism and the Notion of Dependence’
reply: Katherine Hawley (St. Andrews)

4.20pm - 6.00pm

Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State and St. Andrews) ‘Identity, indiscernibility,
and ante rem structuralism: the tale of i and -I’
reply: Richard Pettigrew (Bristol)

Sunday

9.00am - 10.40am

Oliver Pooley (Oxford) ‘Spacetime and stucturalism’
reply: David Wallace (Oxford)

10.40am - 11.00am Tea and Coffee
11.00am - 12.40pm

Simon Saunders (Oxford) ‘Indistinguishability’
reply: James Ladyman (Oxford)

12.40pm - 1.20pm

1.20pm -2.40pm

Steven French (Leeds) ‘The Interdependence of Structure, Ontology and
Dependence’

2.40pm - 3.00pm Tea and Coffee
3.00pm - 4.20pm

Fred Müller ‘TBA’ (Utrecht)

4.20pm - Concluding Discussion

Those traveling by train should go to Bristol Temple Meads - the philosophy
department at 9 Woodland Road is a short taxi or bus ride - see:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/maps/

For those needing overnight accommodation there are a lot of good nearby
hotels. For example see:

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