Philosophy of Physics Research Seminars Michaelmas Term 2025

Convened by Sam Fletcher

NOTE THE NEW PLACE: Oxford seminars will take place in person at 3.00 p.m. on Thursdays in the Lecture Room L1 of the new Scharzmann Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG. Talks will also be streamed, recorded, and (with speaker’s consent) published on our 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 (16 October): Jonte Hance (Newcastle)
Back action causes the difference between classical and quantum counterfactual effects

Week 2 (23 October): Flavio del Santo (Vienna/Geneva)
Which features of quantum physics are not fundamentally quantum but are due to indeterminism?

Week 3 (30 October): Nadia Blackshaw (LSE)
The complete (or incomplete) decay in quantum theory

Week 4 (6 November): NO SEMINAR

Week 5 (13 November): Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn/All Souls):
TBA

Week 6 (20 November): NO SEMINAR

Week 7 (27 November)David Freeborn (NU London)
Neural networks and the reductive understanding of physical theories

Week 8 (4 December): TzuChien Tho (Bristol)
Lagrange, teleology, and equilibrium