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2014 Philosophy of Logic Math and Physics Graduate Student Conference
Join us for the fourteenth annual Philosophy of Logic, Math and Physics (LMP) graduate student conference in philosophy at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The LMP Graduate Student Conference will bring together philosophers of logic, mathematics, and physics for two days of presentations and discussions with some of the leaders in these fields. We […]
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Metaphysics Within and Without Physics: Annual Philosophy of Physics Conference
18th ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS CONFERENCE The Rotman Institute of Philosophy will devote the 2014 International Conference in the Philosophy of Physics on the relation between science and metaphysics. More specifically, the conference will bring together scientists and philosophers to address an important question about science and its cognitive aspirations: what is the relation between […]
Jean Bricmont: A Physicist Looks at Idealism and Relativism
Jean Bricmont: A Physicist Looks at Idealism and Relativism
ABSTRACT Jean Bricmont, co-author with Alan Sokal of Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science, will share his thoughts on idealism and relativism, from the perspective of a physicist. SPEAKER PROFILE Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist, philosopher of science and a professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He works on renormalization group […]
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Causal Powers in Science: Blending Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
2014 ROTMAN SUMMER INSTITUTE The 2014 Institute brings together philosophers of science and metaphysicians with historians of philosophy to discuss conceptual and historical issues concerning the nature and role of causal powers in science and the prospects of the debate between the neo-Aristotelian and neo-Humean approaches to causation and laws of nature. This is a […]