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 "The Material Theory & Large-Scale Structure of Induction"
Interview, August 16, 2024, by Arkadiusz Synowczyk. YouTube "Epagogist"		 Watch
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“What's Wrong with Landauer's Principle" (Advertised as "Landauer's Principle: a Hot Mess"),
Workshop, Center for the Physics of Living Organisms, Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University. March 21, 2022. 		Watch
“Eternal Inflation: When Probabilities Fail"

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. 		Watch
“How Analogy Helped Create the New Science of Thermodynamics"

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, February 18, 2022.

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Oxford
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Oxford and Pittsburgh

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Oxford
Philosophy of Physics Seminar, University of Oxford, February 18, 2021.

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Pittsburgh CPS
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, February 12, 2021.
Material theory book
 “The Material Theory of Induction”

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.

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 "The Infinite Lottery"

Popper Seminar, London School of Economics, April24, 2018.

Read, Chapter 13, "Infinite Lottery Machines" in The Material Theory of Induction.





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Einstein
 " Einstein’s Discovery of the General Theory of Relativity"

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.





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Instant HPS
 "Einstein's Astonishing Idea"

September 19, 2014.
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 “Approximation and Idealization.”

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.





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 “Einstein as the Greatest of the 19th Century Physicists”

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).

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Quantum gas
 “Einstein's Miraculous Argument of 1905”

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.


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 “No-Go Result for the Thermodynamics of Computation”

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

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Einstein for Everyone

The complete lecture series, as given in Fall 2020, during the COVID 19 pandemic.





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 Paradox

Lectures from the Fall 2021 given remotely during the the COVID 19 pandemic.		 Link to videos

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