Nic Teh, Dennis Lehmkuhl and James Read are very happy to announce the first Oxford-Notre Dame-Bonn workshop on the foundations of spacetime theories. The workshop will be held in Pembroke College, Oxford, 3rd-4th September 2019. Please see here for a provisional programme. Space is limited, so those wishing to reserve a place should email James Read in advance.
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We are delighted to announce the Second Chilean Conference on the Philosophy of Physics. The conference will be hosted by the Philosophy Institute at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. It will be held in Santiago, between december 4 and 6.
We invite scholars to submit an abstract of 500-1000 words to phil.phys.chile@gmail.com, before september 5. Notifications by september 20.
Invited speakers:
Jeffrey Bub (University of Maryland)
Michel Janssen (University of Minnesota)
Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds)
For any questions, please write to phil.phys.chile@gmail.com. For more information, please visit https://philphyschile.wixsite.com/2019
Second Irvine-London-Munich-PoliMi-Salzburg Conference in Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
Dates: September 2-3, 2019
Venue: HS 301, Franziskanergasse 1, 5020 Salzburg (Austria)
Organizing committee: Erik Curiel (Munich), Patricia Palacios (Salzburg), Bryan Roberts (LSE), Giovanni Valente (Milan), Jim Weatherall (Irvine), and Charlotte Werndl (Salzburg)
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*PHILOSOPHY OF COSMOLOGY*
*XXII International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics*
17-20 June 2019, Urbino, Italy
The topic of the school is “Philosophy of Cosmology” and will feature lectures given by Christopher Smeenk (Western University, and Director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy), Erik Curiel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), and afternoon seminars given by Alfio Bonanno (INAF, Catania Astrophysical Observatory), Elena Pian (INAF, Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory, Bologna), Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino) and Giovanni Macchia (University of Urbino).
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Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mathematics – March 11, 2019
Quantum Mechanics is our most successful theory to account for the microscopic world. Yet, it is still beset with outstanding interpretational questions that have intrigued physicists, mathematicians and philosophers for almost a century. The present workshop aims at exploring some of the major foundational problems that arose already in the early formulations of the theory and continue to plague our understanding of quantum probabilities. The invited speakers are Michael Cuffaro (Western Ontario\Munich\Vienna), Molly Kao (Montreal), Miklos Rédei (London\Munich) and Jos Uffink (Minnesota). For more information on the program visit http://www.meta.polimi.it/?page_id=263&lang=en or contact Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano) at giovanni.valente@polimi.it
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The Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be holding its fifth annual conference on November 7-9, 2019 at the University of Toronto.
Our keynote speaker will be Katherine Brading (Duke University).
In addition, Max Kistler (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) will deliver a presidential address.
All other sessions will comprise submitted papers.
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The 19th annual Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics (LMP) Graduate Conference will take place on Monday-Tuesday, June 10-11, 2019, at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. We are pleased to announce that David John Baker (the University of Michigan) will be giving the keynote address for this year’s LMP.
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