Convened by Harvey Brown
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1-6, in the Lecture Room of the Philosophy Centre. In week 7, in place of the Thursday seminar, see Relativity Meets Quantum Theory at the LSE, Nov 28-29th (Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, LSE), and Irreversibility in Axiomatic Thermodynamics, Nov 30 (Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge). In week 8, in place of the Thursday seminar, see Anthropics: selection effects and fine-tuning in cosmology (miniseries as part of the ‘Establishing the Philosophy of Cosmology’ initiative, at St Anne’s College, Oxford University).
Please note the Centre’s NEW ADDRESS: Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG. (This is the old Radcliffe Infirmary building.) The Lecture Room is on the second floor.
Abstracts are posted weekly.
Thu 17 October: Edward Anderson, DAMPT, Cambridge
Background independence
Thu 24 October: Basil Hiley, Birkbeck College, London
Bohmian non-commutative dynamics: local conditional expectation values are weak values
Thu 31 October: Paul Hoyningen-Heune, Leibniz University of Hannover
The dead end objection against convergent realisms
Thu 7 November: Sam Fletcher, University of California at Irvine
On the reduction of General Relativity to Newtonian gravitation
Thu 14 November: Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland
Quantum Interactions with Closed Timelike Curves and Superluminal Signaling
Thu 21 November: Owen Maroney, Oxford
How is there a physics of information?
Thu 28 November: No Seminar
Thu 5 December: No Seminar