As part of the Rotman Institute Speaker Series, each year one speaker is chosen as the Rotman Institute Lecturer in Philosophy and Science. This year, the Rotman Institute had the pleasure of hearing from Professor John D. Norton as the 2012/2013 Rotman Lecturer. Norton is currently the Director for the Center for Philosophy of Science, [...]
(Image: Quantum Cloud, sculpture by Antony Gormley) Last year two books appeared that will be on the required reading list for philosophers of physics for many years to come: Gordon Belot's Geometric Possibility and Laura Ruetsche's Interpreting Quantum Theories. The Rotman Institute hosted a book bash to celebrate the arrival of publication of these long-awaited [...]
By Wayne Myrvold I posted a link to my blog post, “Beyond Turf Wars,” on my Facebook page. It resulted in an interest back-and-forth involving myself, philosopher Vishnya Maudlin, and Matt Leifer, a physicist working on the foundations of quantum theories, about, among other things, the differences between physics and philosophy, and the respectove roles [...]