Philosophy of Physics Research Seminars Trinity Term 2025

Convened by Oliver Pooley and James Read

NOTE THE NEW TIME: Oxford 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 (1 May): William Wolf (Oxford)
Permanent underdetermination in modern cosmology.

Week 2 (8 May): Jer Steeger (Bristol)
Complementarity as infringement

Week 3 (15 May): NO SEMINAR

Week 4 (22 May): Simon Saunders (Oxford)
Principle and constructive theories of physical probability, and Bell inequalities

Week 5 (29 May): NO SEMINAR

Week 6 (5 June): George Webster (Oxford)
‘It from bit’ as a critical idealist proposal

Week 7 (12 June): JB Manchak (UC Irvine)
Spacetime asymmetry

Week 8 (19 June): Klaas Landsman (Radboud University)
Philosophy of Mathematical Physics from A to B