Date: 9 October 2020, 10.00-18.30 (CET)
Place: Online (Zoom)
Program
| 10.00 | Welcome Greetings and Opening Remarks |
| 10.30 | Break |
| 10.45 | Sophie Allen, Rani Lill Anjum, Dirk Franken, Beate Krickel, Anne Sophie Meincke, John Pemberton, Antje Rumberg, Helen Steward, Barbara Vetter: Elevator-Pitches |
| 12.30 | Lunch Break |
| 14.30 | Keynote I & Discussion: Anna Marmodoro (Durham): Powers in Time |
| 16.00 | Break |
| 16.15 | Keynote II & Discussion: Johanna Seibt (Aarhus): Types of Dynamic Continuity in General Process Theory |
| 17.45 | Feedback & Outlook |
| 18.00 | Clinking glasses & Conversations |
| 18.30 | Closing |
all times = CET
Guest Experts
Anna Marmodoro (Durham)
Johanna Seibt (Aarhus)
Anna Marmodoro: Powers in Time
In the paper I will present, Andrea Roselli and I engage with an ongoing debate on the issue of whether admitting powers into the ontology commits us to a certain conception of time; or, put differently, that given a certain conception of time one cannot also admit powers in one’s ontology. We argue that we are not in such predicament, and that one can even hold a dynamic view of powers and an eternalist conception of time.
Johanna Seibt: Types of Dynamic Continuity in General Process Theory
GPT is a mono-categorial process ontology, with non-transitive part-relation as the basic relationship among the basic entity called »general process«. General processes are concrete, yet indeterminate (general), dynamic individuals. While according to the GPT the world is a field of interconnected processes, it is possible to define different types of dynamic continuity within this field of goings-on. Some of these types of dynamic continuity engender transtemporal sameness, others engender transtemporal difference (change), with different forms of ›additivity‹ or »aggregativity« (Wimsatt) patterns resulting in ›constructive‹ and ›destructive‹ alterations. I discuss whether the current taxonomical framework of GPT can present at least criteria (necessary conditions) for at least some of those types of dynamic continuity that figure in biological »mechanisms«.