Convened by Christopher Timpson
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1-3 and 5-8, in the Lecture Room of Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG.
Abstracts are posted weekly.
13th October (week 1): David Wallace (University of Southern California)
‘Fundamental and emergent geometry in Newtonian gravity’
20th October (week 2): Niels Martens (Oxford)
‘Against comparativism about mass’
27th October (week 3): Ryan Samaroo (Bristol)
‘The principle of equivalence as a criterion of identity’
3rd Novermber (week 4): NO SEMINAR
10th November (week 5): Lina Jansson (Nottingham)
‘Newton’s methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature’
17th November (week 6): Jim Weatherall (UC Irvine)
‘On stuff: the field concept in classical physics’
24th November (week 7): David Glick (Oxford)
‘Entanglement swapping and entanglement realism’
1st December (week 8): David Sloan (Oxford, Physics)
‘Relationalism, entropy and the Big Bang’