#  Workshop: Humean Approaches to Laws of Nature 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 17 - May 19, 2019** 

 03:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211**  



 

 



 

 Friday, May 17

- 3:30pm – 5:30pm: Keynote by Ned Hall
- 6:00pm: Dinner (Tanner Room, Emerson 310)

 Saturday, May 18

- 8:30am – 9:00am: Coffee/light breakfast
- 9:00am – 10:30am: “Induction and the Glue of the World”

 Harjit Bhogal (University of Maryland, College Park)

 Comments by Erica Shumener (University of Pittsburgh)

- 10:40am – 12:10pm: “Mentaculus Counterfactuals: The Salt that Wouldn’t Dissolve”

 Joint talk by Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder) and  
Elizabeth Miller (Yale)

 Comments by Thomas Blanchard (Illinois Wesleyan University)

- 12:10pm – 2:00pm: Lunch break
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm: “What Plays the Role of Chance?”

 Alison Fernandes (University of Dublin)

 Comments by Mike Hicks (University of Cologne)

- 3:40pm – 5:10pm: “Scientific Explanation: Still a Headache for Humeans”

 Katie Elliott (University of California, Los Angeles)

- 5:30pm: Dinner (Tanner Room)

 Sunday, May 19

- 8:30am – 9:00am: Coffee/light breakfast

- 9:00am – 10:30am: “Humean Governance”

 Joint talk by Siegfried Jaag (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) and  
Christian Loew (University of Cologne)

- 10:40 – 12:10pm: “The Governing Conception of Laws”

 Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke College)

 Comments by Zee Perry (University of Colorado, Boulder)

 **Note:** Attendance and participation in the workshop is by invitation only.



 

 



 

 

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