Ernst Mach Workshop /
Werkstatt Ernst Mach

PROGRAMME

Barry Loewer (Rutgers/CEU IAS): Direction of Time and Free Will
James Hill (Prague): Noam Chomsky’s Critique of Physicalism
Michael Hicks (Rutgers): Positions and Dispositions
Jakub Mihalik (Prague): Russell's Neutral Monism and The Problem of Consciousness
Alessandra Melas (Sassari): Absolute coincidences and Salmon's interactive fork model

Karol Polcyn (Szczecin): Conceivability, Possibility and Phenomenal-Physical Coreference
Heather Demarest (Rutgers): Fundamental Chance and the Mentaculus
Thomas Blanchard (Rutgers): Causation and Chance
Tomas Hribek (Prague): The Lure of Dualism

Ernst Mach

The workshop bears the name of an important local - Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a native of Brno and a longtime professor of physics at Charles-Ferdinand University (now Charles University) in Prague. In addition to his groundbreaking work in physics, Mach was one of the founders of philosophy of science. Since the early 1900s, in Austria, the United Kingdom and elsewhere philosophers respecting science and logic continued the legacy of Professor Mach. Alas, especially in the latter half of the last century, the tradition of rigorous philosophy flourished overseas rather than in the place of its origin. By paying homage to Professor Mach, we wish to rejuvenate this tradition here as well.