Events
Conference:
Occasionalism East and West
June, 6th 2013-Saturday
45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University Divinity School
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PROGRAM
8.40-8.50 Opening Remarks,
Nazif Muhtaroglu (Harvard University)
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1. Session-Occasionalism in Islamic Philosophy
9.00-9.20 “Al-Maturidi on Causality:” Nazif Muhtaroglu (Harvard University)
9.20-9.40 “Al-Ghazali’s Mishkat al-Anwar,” Chryssi Sidiropoulou (Bogazici University)
9.40-10.00 “Ibn Arabi’s View of Causality and Occasionalism” Ozgur Koca (Bayan Graduate School)
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10.00-10.20 “Ibn Humam and Al-Sanusi on Causality” Caitlyn Olson (Harvard University)
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10.20-10.40 “Said Nursi’s View of Occasionalism” C. Turner and H. Horkuc (Durham University)
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10.40-11.30 The Discussion of the First Session
11.30-12.00 Coffee Break
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2. Session-Occasionalism in Modern Philosophy
12.00-12.20 “Cordemoy and Motives for Cartesian Occasionalism” Andrew Platt (Stony Brook University)
12.20-12.40 “Malebranche and Suarez on Secondary Causation: A Contemporary Consideration” Fred Ablondi (Hendrix College)
12.40-1.00 “Occasionalism and The Powers of Mind” Walter Ott (University of Virginia)
1.00-1.20 “” Tad Schmaltz (University of Michigan)
1.20-2.30 The Discussion of the Second Session
2.30-3.30 Lunch Break
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3. Session-Occasionalism and Causation in Contemporary Philosophy
3.30-3.50 “Divine Compositionalism as Occasionalism” Walter Schultz & Lisanne Winslow (University of Northwestern)
3.50-4.10 “Occasionalism and non-reductive physicalism: Another look at the continuous creation argument” Daniel Lim (Duke Kushan University)
4.10-4.30 The Discussion of the Third Session
4.30-4.50 Break
4.50-5.00 Concluding Remarks, Tad Schmaltz (University of Michigan)​
Workshop:
Theories of Causality and Occasionalism
2 June, 2015, Ä°brahim Bodur Salonu (BoÄŸaziçi University, South Campus)
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PROGRAM
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2 June, 2015
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10.00-12.00 M. Basil Altaie (Yarmouk University) (Natural causality: Views of Mutazilites and Asharites)
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Alparslan Acikgenc, Yildiz Teknik University (Occasionalism and The Evolutionary Causal Process)
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-17.30 Jeffrey McDonough, Harvard University (Suarez on Efficient Divine Causation)
17.30-18.00 Break
18.00-19.30, Douglas Kutach, West Indies University (Prominent Theories of Causality Today)
20.00 Dinner
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3 June, 2015
Sightseeing, City Tour
4 June, 2015
10.00- 12.00 Brandon Look, University of Kentucky (Theories of Causality and Occasionalism among the Continental Rationalists)
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Nazif Muhtaroglu, BoÄŸaziçi University (Malebranche’s Occasionalism and British Empiricists)
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-18.00 Edward Moad, Qatar University (Current Approaches to Causality and Occasionalism)
Conference:
Theories of Causality and Occasionalism
6 June, 2015, Ä°brahim Bodur Salonu (BoÄŸaziçi University, South Campus)
PROGRAM
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June, 6th 2015-Saturday,
Ä°brahim Bodur Salonu (BoÄŸaziçi University, South Campus)
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8.40-8.50 Opening Remarks, Nazif MuhtaroÄŸlu (BoÄŸaziçi University)
8.50-9.00 Welcoming Remarks, Chryssi Sidiropoulou (BoÄŸaziçi University)
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1. Session-Occasionalism and Causation in Islamic Philosophy
9.00-9.25 “Causality: An Analysis of the Views of the Mu’tazilites and the Ash’arites,” M. Basil Altaie (Yarmouk University)
9.30-9.55 “The Emanation Theory, Mere Conservationism and Occasionalism,” Davlat Dadikhuda (McGill University)
10.00-10.25 “How Effective is the Comparison between Malebranche’s Occasionalist Causation and Dogen’s Soto Zen Buddhist Practice?
(in the light of another pair of comparison: Scholastics’ Concurrentism and Rinzai Zen Practice),”Takaharu Oda (Edinburgh University)
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10.25-10.35 Coffee Break
10.35-11.25 The Discussion of the First Session
11.25-11.45 Coffee Break
2. Session-Occasionalism and Causation in Modern Philosophy
11.45-12.10 “Creatures that Cause? Pre-established Harmony and Occasionalism” Paul Martin (Ohio University)
12.15-12.40 “Spinoza’s Pantheism and Malebranche’s Occasionalism” Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
12.45-1.10 “Berkeley’s Rejection of Occasionalism” Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University)
1.15-1.40 “Hume, Kant and Al-Ghazali on the Universal Principle of Causality” Nazif MuhtaroÄŸlu (BoÄŸaziçi University)
1.40-2.50 Lunch Break
2.50-3.40 The Discussion of the Second Session
3.40-3.50 Coffee Break
3. Session-Occasionalism and Causation in Contemporary Philosophy
3.50-4.15 “How A Contemporary Theory of Fundamental Physics Supports Occasionalism” Douglas Kutach (West Indies University)
4.20-4.45 “Regularity and Counterfactual Theories of Causation in Relation to Occasionalism” Edward Moad (Qatar University)
4.50-5.15 “Knowledge, Minds and Causal Efficacy” Bruce Katz (Independent)
5.15-5.25 Break
5.25-6.20 The Discussion of the Third Session
7.00 Dinner
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June, 7th 2015-Sunday,
Ä°brahim Bodur Salonu (BoÄŸaziçi University, South Campus)
9.00-9.50 “Does Causal Dispositionalism Make Room for Occasionalism?” Anna Marmodoro (Oxford University)
9.50-10.00 Break
4. Session-Occasionalism and Quantum Mechanics
10.00-10.25 “Reviving Kalam Occasionalism by ways of Quantum Gravity and Unified Theories” Mehmet Bulgen (Marmara University)
10.30-10.55 “Causality in Quantum Physics: A New Perspective” M. Basil Altaie (Yarmouk University)
11.00-11.25 “How Quantum Mechanics Supports Occasionalism” Douglas Kutach (West Indies University)
11.30-11.55 “Quantum Occasionalism” Vasil Dinev Penchev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
11.55-12.10 Coffee Break
12.10-1.00 The Discussion of the Fourth Session
1.30 Lunch