Center for Philosophy of Science
1117 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
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PROGRAM (subject to change)
Thursday, April 11
1117 CL
10:00 |
Welcome & Introduction |
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Morning Session Chair: Porter Williams (USC) |
10:05 |
Tushar Menon, James Read, and Niels Linneman (Oxford, Oxford, and Geneva): "Rotating Spacetimes and the Relativistic Null Hypothesis" |
10:45 |
Qiu Lin (Duke): "Émilie du Châtelet’s Views on Space" |
11:25 |
Coffee Break |
11:55 |
Josh Hunt (Michigan):
"Staying On-shell: Modern Methods in Particle Physics" |
12:35 |
Lunch (On Your Own) |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Michael Miller (Toronto) |
2:00 |
Sébastien Rivat (Columbia):
"Two Cheers for Effective Theories and Selective Realism" |
2:40 |
Joshua Eisenthal (Pittsburgh) & Neil Dewar (MCMP):
"A Raum with a View: Hermann Weyl and the Problem of Space" |
3:20 |
Coffee Break |
4:10 |
Keynote Address: Laura Ruetsche (Michigan), Aristidis Arageorgis, John Earman:
"Additivity Principles for Quantum Probabilities" |
5:30 |
Adjourn |
Friday, April 12
1117 CL
9:30 |
Breakfast |
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Morning Session Chair: Laura Ruetsche (Michigan) |
10:00 |
Nuria Muñoz Garganté (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science):
"The Role of Symmetry-Breaking in "More is Different"" |
10:40 |
John Dougherty (MCMP): "Fields, Loops, and the Strong CP Problem" |
11:20 |
Coffee Break |
11:50 |
Ben Feintzeig (Washington): "Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories" |
12:30 |
Adjourn |
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