The Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn [ https://www.history-and-philosophy-of-physics.com/ ] invites everyone to the Bonn History and Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar. The schedule for the summer term includes the following speakers:
18 April Sam Fletcher (Minnesota/Bonn) The Definition of Spacetime Singularities, revisited
25 April Henrique Gomes (Oxford) A comparison of gravitational and electromagnetic radiative energy
2 May Huw Price (Bonn) Why entanglement?
16 May Miklos Redei (LSE) Philosophical qualities of science in Robert Musil’s ‘Man without qualities’
23 May Noah Stemeroff (Bonn) Pauli on Plato (tbc)
13 June Gregor Schiemann (Wuppertal) The proximity and remoteness of cosmic emptiness
20 June Juliusz Doboszewski (Bonn) Eliminative reasoning and the many parametrizations of black holes
27 June Jamee Elder (Harvard) What is a ‘direct’ image of a shadow?: A history and epistemology of ‘directness’ in black hole imaging
4 July Tushar Menon (Cambridge) Singular terms and singular spacetimes
The seminar takes place on Tuesdays, 14:15-15:45 local Bonn time. As in the last two semesters, the research seminar will be hybrid: people from Bonn and the surrounding area are warmly invited to come to the main building of the University, where the seminar will take place in seminar room 1.070 of the Institute of Philosophy, also known as “the big seminar room”. The other possibility is to join us via Zoom; links and weekly reminders are announced via hpp@listen.uni-bonn.de. Subscribing to this list is possible here: https://listen.uni-bonn.de/wws/info/hpp . The full schedule can be also accessed through the group’s website: https://www.history-and-philosophy-of-physics.com/events.html .