Convened by Oliver Pooley
NOTE THE NEW TIME: All seminars will take place in person at 3.00 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 (12 Oct): David Wallace (Pittsburgh)
Thermodynamics with and without reversibility
Week 2 (19 Oct): Nicholas Teh (Notre Dame)
Understanding the Geroch–Jang argument
Week 3 (26 Oct): Sabine Hossenfelder (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)
Superdeterminism – the forgotten solution
Week 4 (2 Nov): NO SEMINAR
Week 5 (9 Nov): Tim Palmer (Oxford) and Chris Timpson (Oxford)
Superdeterminism and non-conspiracy revisited: a debate
Week 6 (16 Nov): Jonathan Halliwell (Imperial)
Aspects of Leggett–Garg tests of macrorealism
Week 7 (23 Nov): Neil Dewar (Cambridge)
The hole argument and mathematical practice
Week 8 (30 Nov): Bryan Roberts (LSE)
How black holes are really hot