Convened by Oliver Pooley
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars will take place in person at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays of Hilary Term, in the Lecture Room of Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG. Talks will also be streamed, recorded, and published on our new You Tube channel
Those on the philosophy of physics mailing list will receive an invitation to join the meetings online; others should contact the convenor directly.
Abstracts are posted weekly.
Week 1 (20th January): Tushar Menon (Cambridge)
Dynamical substantivalism
Week 2 (27th January): Claudio Calosi (Geneva)
Wavefunction monism
Week 3 (3rd February): Valeriya Chasova (Salzburg / Strasbourg / Louvain-la-Neuve) (Online only.)
Local symmetries have direct empirical status
Week 4 (10th February): Samuel Fletcher (Minnesota)
Relativistic spacetime: dependence and ontology
Week 5 (17th February): James Read (Oxford)
Curvature coupling, electromagnetic wave propagation, and the consistency of the geometrical optics limit
Week 6 (25th February): NO SEMINAR
Jowett Society talk (same venue as Thu seminar)
Week 6 (Friday 25 February):
Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnam University)
Week 7 (3rd March): NO SEMINAR
Jowett Society talk (same venue as Thu seminar)
Week 7 (Friday 4 March):Tim Maudlin (NYU)
Law, fact, or mathematical consequence? Metaphysical options in mathematical physics
Week 8 (10 March): Katherine Brading (Duke)
Du Châtelet, Euler, d’Alembert: constructive and principle approaches to philosophical mechanics
BBLOC SEMINAR Kings College London
Week 9 (17 March) Neil Dewar (Cambridge)
TBC