Convened by Oliver Pooley, Henrique Gomes, and Patrick Durr
All seminars will take place in person at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Lecture Room of Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG. Talks will also be streamed, recorded, and (with speaker’s consent) 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 convenors directly.
Abstracts are posted weekly.
Week 1 (19th January): NO SEMINAR
Week 2 (26 January): Kobi Kremnitzer (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)
Scientific theories of consciousness, the closure
of the (current) physical, and quantum collapse
Week 3 (2 Feb): NO SEMINAR
Week 4 (9 February): James Read (Philosophy, Oxford)
An invitation to constructive axiomatics
Week 5 (16 February): Marco Giovanelli (Philosophy, Turin)
Special Relativity as a theory of principles. On Einstein’s distinction between constructive and principle theories
Week 6 (23 February): Yemima Ben-Menahem (Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Lawlessness
Week 7 (2 March): Marina Cortês (Institute for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Lisbon)
Biocosmology: towards the birth of a new physics field
Week 8 (9 March): Johannes Fankhauser (Philosophy, Oxford)
The empirical completeness problem of quantum mechanics