10 Dec

Workshop on Determinism, Indeterminism, and Counterfactuals in History

Date:

Wed:
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

10 December 2025

Location:

ZEPP Library, LMU main building Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 80539 München

Part of the LMU-Cambridge partnership

Program

9:30 to 10:45 Aidan Ryall (Australian National University), via Zoom: TBA

11:15 to 12:45 Richard Holton (Cambridge): The web of determinism

Lunch break

14:30 to 15:45 Rae Langton (Cambridge): Changing the past? Retroactive counterfactual dependence in the course of history

16:00 to 17:15 Christian List (LMU): Special-science counterfactuals

17:15 to 18:30 Lorenz Lüthi (McGill), via Zoom: How historians deal with determinism, indeterminism, chance/randomness, free will, and counterfactuals

Venue

ZEPP Library, LMU main building, room M210, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich