Lisbon Philosophy of Physics Seminars 2023

The Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon is happy to announce the Lisbon Philosophy of Physics Seminars 2023. The series of online seminars are organized in the context of the activities of the LanCog Research Group and will focus on the foundations of quantum and spacetime physics. The current program for the spring semester is the following (it will be constantly updated):

 

19 April (17:00-19:00 CEST): Hervé Zwirn (ENS Paris-Saclay) – Is the Past Determined?

26 April (17:00-19:00 CEST): Davide Romano (University of Lisbon) – What we can do and cannot do with decoherence

3 May (17:00-19:00 CEST): Ryan Miller (University of Geneva) – Aristotelian Grounding for GRW’s Flash Ontology

10 May (17:00-19:00 CEST): Wayne Myrvold (University of Western Ontario) – A Tale of Two Sciences, Both Called “Thermodynamics”

17 May (17:00-19:00 CEST): Peter Morgan (Yale) – A Field & Signal Analysis Approach to Quantum Measurement

24 May (17:00-19:00 CEST): Chip Sebens (Caltech) – The Fundamentality of Fields

31 May (17:00-19:00 CEST): Laurie Letertre (LMU Munich) – TBD

7 June (17:00-19:00 CEST): Olimpia Lombardi (University of Buenos Aires) – Introducing the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of quantum mechanics

15 June (17:00-19:00 CEST): Mauro Dorato (University of Rome 3) – The conceptual status of cosmic time

 

The Seminars will be held on Zoom, people interested in attending the talks can register here.

 

You can address any question to Andrea Oldofredi (aoldofredi@letras.ulisboa.pt).