Transitions in Emergence
Namur
May 12-13, 2026
News
21/04 - The WhatsApp community of the conference is online. Send us a mail if you want to join!
20/04 - The menu of the conference dinner is available!
17/04 - The book of abstracts is available!
16/04 - Links to attend the conference online are available. Send us a mail if you want to join!
Program
Download the book of abstracts
To attend online, please contact the organizers.
May 12 - Venue: Quai 22, Rue du Séminaire 22, 5000 Namur8h45 – 10h00 | Timothy O’Connor (Indiana University Bloomington): Structures in the Varieties of Emergence
10h00 – 10h45 | Andrea Roselli (University of Namur) & Olivier Sartenaer (University of Namur): The Many Faces of Diachronic Emergence10h45 – 11h15 | Coffee Break11h15 – 12h30 | Samuel Fletcher (University of Oxford): The Diachronic Emergence of Time12h30 – 14h00 | Lunch14h00 – 14h45 | Milan Stürmer (Erasmus School of Philosophy, Rotterdam) & Daniel Bella (University of Hamburg): Both British and Emergentist: Whitehead’s Account of Diachronic Emergence
14h45 – 15h30 | Michele Paolini Paoletti (Università degli Studi di Macerata): Better Late Than Never. The Strong, Diachronic Emergence of State15h30 – 16h00 | Coffee Break16h00 – 17h15 | Karen Crowther (University of Oslo): Doubling Down on Emergence
19:00 Conference Dinner at the Grill des Tanneurs (Menu)
May 13 - Venue: Quai 22, Rue du Séminaire 22, 5000 Namur8h45 – 10h00 | Erica Onnis (Cusano University): Emergent Qualitative-Causal Complexes: Synchronic, Diachronic, or Both?
10h00 – 10h45 | Maxime Hilbert (University of Namur) & Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard (University of Namur): Can an Emergentist be an Eternalist?10h45 – 11h15 | Coffee Break11h15 – 12h30 | John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis): Chronic Emergence12h30 – 14h00 | Lunch14h00 – 14h45 | Martha Pedroni (University of Geneva): Can There Be Diachronic Spacetime Emergence?
14h45 – 15h30 | Floris Eskens (University of Oslo): The Flat Emergence of Laws of Nature15h30 – 16h00 | Coffee Break16h00 – 17h15 | Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto): The Search for Diachronic Emergence
Venue
The conference will be held in Quai 22, Rue du Séminaire 22, 5000 NamurDirections to Namur
From Brussels Airport: take a direct train from Brussels Airport to Namur, or change in Brussels Midi (one of Brussels' train station).From Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Namur: take the shuttle bus to Charleroi-Sud train station
and change to take a train to Namur.Once in Namur
Quai 22, where the conference is held, is a 15 minutes walk from Namur station.
L'Hôtel des Tanneurs, where our invited speakers are staying and where the Conference dinner will be held on May 12 at 7pm, is a 15 minutes walk from Namur station and a 15 minutes walk from Quai 22.
Contact
On-line attendance
A Teams link is available to attend the Conference online. Send one of us a mail to get a link!WhatsApp group
Get info in real time by joining the WhatsApp group of the Conference. Send one of us a mail to join!
Please note that by joining, your phone number will be visible to other participants.Organising & Scientific Committee
Alexandre Guay (UCLouvain)
Maxime Hilbert (UNamur) [email protected]
Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard (UNamur) [email protected]
Andrea Roselli (UNamur) [email protected]
Olivier Sartenaer (UNamur) [email protected]Art
Doan Vu Duc (UNamur)Sponsors
This conference is part of the Re-engineering non-reductive physicalism for the 21st century FNRS-MIS project supervised by Prof. Olivier Sartenaer.
Publication
We plan to publish selected contributions from the conference in a special issue or an edited volume.
The call for papers will also be open to contributions on diachronic emergence from researchers who did not participate in the conference.
Further details will be announced on this website and on the mailing lists.