workshop on mixtures and stuff

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Thursday, 6^th of June

Location: B111, Uni Bastions (main University building)

• 9.15-‐10.45 Philipp Blum, Kit Fine on Mixtures

• 11-‐12.30 Paul Needham, Getting back to Aristotle: Tracing the Aristotelian Roots of Chemical Thermodynamics

• lunch at Clair d'Arve, 11, rue des Minoteries, 0223228505

• 14.30-‐16 Theodore Scaltsas, Aristotle on Mixis

• 16.15-‐17.45 Olivier Massin, Brentano on Multiple Colours

• 18-‐19 wrap-‐up discussion

• 20.30 dinner at "L'Appart'', 7 bvd Carl-‐Vogt, 1st floor left, 0783050500 Friday, 7^th of June

Location: B111, Uni Bastions (main University building)

• 9.15-‐10.45 Mark Steen, Vague Stuff

• 11-‐12.30 Henry Laycock, In What Does the Existence of Stuff Consist? -‐ Being Without Quantification

• lunch at Emilios, 7 rue Leschot, 0223216185

• 14.30-‐16 Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson, Stuff: Substances, Processes, or Both

• 16.15-‐17.45 Philipp Blum, Stuff and Distributional Properties

• 18-‐19 wrap-‐up discussion

• 20.30 “apéro dinatoire” at Bateau Lavoir, 0223213878 Saturday, 8^th of June

Location: L208; 2, rue de Candolle; 2nd floor (where the department is on the fourth floor), door code 1976.

• 9.15-‐10.45 Nick Treanor, Quantities of Knowledge

• 11-‐12.30 Henry Laycock, The Philosophy of Mixture

• lunch at Café du Marché, av Henri Dunant 16, 0223208546

• 14.30-‐15.30 The stuff:thing :: process:event analogy

• 15.45-‐16.45 Chemistry, the philosophy of chemistry and meta-‐chemistry

• 17-‐17.45 Stephen Wykstra, What is an Element that it may Explain? Fine-‐Tuning Paneth from Hendry's Critique

• 18-‐18.30 wrap-‐up discussion

• 20 dinner at Bain des Pâquis, 0227381616

For all inquiries, contact the organizer Philipp Blum

(+41766169655 from abroad, 0766169655 from Switzerland), or +41788944006.