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 is as follows:
9th April – Karim Thébault (University of Bristol), Decoherence and Probability
30th April – Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology), David Bohm’s lectures on quantum theory and dialectical materialism
7th May – student presentations: Frauke Stoll, Gianni Klesen, Kartik Tiwari, format: TBD
14th May – workshop Foundational challenges in cosmological studies of black holes, format: hybrid, all-day long. Invited speakers: Antonia Frassino, Kristen Lackeos, Jamee Elder, Erik Curiel, and a number of contributed talks. Full schedule will be soon accessible on https://www.history-and-philosophy-of-physics.com/events.html , please register separately by end of April. Organized by Antonis Antoniou and Juliusz Doboszewski, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG Project “Inductive Metaphysics”.
28th May – Robert Rynasiewicz (John Hopkins University)
4th June – Jan Michel (University of Düsseldorf), Can machines make scientific discoveries?
11th June – Tushar Menon, The inferentialist guide to quantum mechanics
18th June – Alexander Reutlinger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich), Articulating Invariantism. Revisiting the Counterfactual Independence Account of Scientific Objectivity, format: in-person only
25th June – Jonathan Fay (Hertz fellow; University of Bristol), On the Reissner-Sciama hypothesis: Relative motion and the necessary existence of gravitation
2nd July, Alex Mathie (Hertz fellow; MCMP LMU Munich), Against ‘Interactionalism’ about Black Hole Thermodynamics
9th July, Abhay Ashtekar (Physics Department, Penn State, US and Perimeter Institute, Canada), Einstein’s Universe and the Quantum
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The seminar takes place on Tuesdays, 14:15-15:45 local Bonn time (CEST), in seminar room 1.070 of the Institute of Philosophy (in the main university building at Am Hof 1); everyone is always welcome to join in person.
Apart from talks explicitly listed as in-person only, this seminar is hybrid – joining on Zoom will be possible. Zoom links and reminders will be announced via hpp@listen.uni-bonn.de. Subscribing to this list is possible here: https://listen.uni-bonn.de/wws/info/hpp .
The most up to date schedule and the abstracts can (very soon) be found on: https://www.history-and-philosophy-of-physics.com/events.html