Workshop: Thought Experiments, Modal Knowledge, and Counterfactuals
Preliminary program:
Sept 2
9.30 - 11.00 Timothy Williamson, Oxford: TBA
Coffee
11.30 - 13.00 Joachim Horvath, Köln:
Thought Experiments without Modal Reasoning
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch Break
15.00 - 16.30 Daniel Dohrn, Maribel Romero and Tobias Rosefeldt, Berlin:
Thought Experiments and Deviant Realisations I
Coffee
17.00 -18.30 Daniel Dohrn, Maribel Romero and Tobias Rosefeldt, Konstanz
and Berlin:
Thought Experiments and the Problem of Deviant Realisations I
20.00 Dinner
Sept 3
9.30 -11.00 Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Oslo:
Actuality and Conceptual Necessity
Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 Christian Nimtz, Bielefeld: TBA
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch Break
15.00 - 16.30 Jonathan Ichikawa, Vancouver:
Modals, Modality, and Modal Epistemology
16.30 – 17.30 Closing Discussion
20.00 Dinner
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Additional information
Itinerary hotel Allegra - Friedrichstraße station - conference venue
Hotel Allegra
The station closest to the hotel and the workshop is Friedrichstraße. There are two airports, Schönefeld and Tegel. From Schönefeld, you may take the Airport Express (RB 14, RE 7) train or the S45 metro train to Friedrichstraße. From Tegel, you may take the bus 128 to Kurt-Schumacher-Platz and then the U6. Or you may take take the bus TXL to Hauptbahnhof and then S5 or S7 to Friedrichstraße.