John D. Norton
Video
Talks
Interview by Curt Jaimungal, on Theories of Everything
Posted Friday June 27, 2025
This is a long interview of 1 hour 48 minutes that covers a lot of ground. It starts with the indeterminism of the dome, which is identified by Curt Jaimungal as the 300-year-old mistake. It moves to my criticism of Landauer's principle and the supposed connection between information and thermodynamic entropy; and then on to still further topics including Einstein's contributions to quantum physics.
Curt also posted a video (linked on the right) that answers the lamentable notion among some physicists that philosophy of science is without value. It is based on an email exchange we had after the interview.
Link for full interview.
Link for portion of interview on Landauer's principle.
Link for Jaimungel's "Philosopher's vs Physicists."
Interview by Carrie Figdor on January 11, 2025, at the New Books Network.
Audio only.
BSPSopen, December 4, 2024.
Interview, August 16, 2024, by Arkadiusz Synowczyk. YouTube "Epagogist"
Workshop, Center for the Physics of Living Organisms, Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University. March 21, 2022.
Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium, Warsaw University of Technology. Warsaw, Poland. (Via Zoom) February 25, 2022.
Read paper here and Chapter 13 of Material Theory of Induction.
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, February 18, 2022.
Read paper here.
Oxford and Pittsburgh
Read paper here.
Philosophy of Physics Seminar, University of Oxford, February 18, 2021.
Watch
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, February 12, 2021.
Bar-Hillel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University; Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Edelstein Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. December 17, 2020.
Read
Popper Seminar, London School of Economics, April24, 2018.
Read, Chapter 13, "Infinite Lottery Machines" in The Material Theory of Induction.
Conference General Relativity and Geometry: Centenary Perspectives on General Relativity, Western University, London ON, Canada, June 6-7, 2015.
Read "Einstein’s Conflicting Heuristics: The Discovery of General Relativity," pp. 17-48 in Thinking about Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity. Einstein Studies, Volume 15. C. Beisbart, T. Sauer, C. Wüthrich (eds). Cham, Switzerland: Birhäuser/Springer Nature, 2020.
September 19, 2014.
Instant HPS Video series
2012/13 Speaker Series, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, March 14-15, 2013.
Read "Approximation and Idealization: Why the Difference Matters" Philosophy of Science, 79 (2012), pp. 207-232.
2012/13 Speaker Series, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, March 14-15, 2013.
Read "Einstein as the Greatest of the Nineteenth Century Physicists," pp. 142-51 in Proceedings, Seventh Quadrennial Fellows Conference of the Center for Philosophy of Science (12-14 June 2012; Mugla, Turkey).
Rotman Summer Institute in Foundations of Statistical Physics, Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 14-20, 2013.
Read "Atoms Entropy Quanta: Einstein's Miraculous Argument of 1905," Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37 (2006), pp. 71-100.
Rotman Summer Institute in Foundations of Statistical Physics, Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 14-20, 2013.
Read "All Shook Up: Fluctuations, Maxwell's Demon and the Thermodynamics of Computation". Entropy 2013, 15, 4432-4483
Teaching
The complete lecture series, as given in Fall 2020, during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Lectures from the Fall 2021 given remotely during the the COVID 19 pandemic.