A workshop on the philosophical foundations of geometry and physics, held on the occasion of Gordon Belot and David Malament jointly winning the Lakatos Award.
Date: Wednesday, 4 May 2016, 09:45 – 18:30.
Location: LAK 2.06
More Details: Calendar Entry
Lakatos Award Ceremony: To follow the next evening, 6:00-9:30pm.
Speakers: Gordon Belot (Michigan), Fay Dowker (Imperial), Klaas Landsman (Radboud), and David Malament (UC Irvine).
This workshop is open to all. Registration is online (and free).
Programme
Time | Speaker |
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09:45-10:00 | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
10:00-11:30 | Klaas Landsman, “Bohrification: From classical concepts to commutative (operator) algebras” |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break |
12:00-13:30 | Fay Dowker, “Causal Sets: Discrete Spacetime” |
13:30-15:00 | Break for Lunch |
15:00-16:30 | Gordon Belot, “The Mach-Einstein Principle of 1917-18” |
16:30-17:00 | Tea |
17:00-18:30 | David Malament, “On Relative Orbital Rotation in Relativity Theory” |
18:30 | Concluding Remarks |
This workshop is made possible by the Lakatos Fund, the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method, and the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences.
Organiser: Bryan W. Roberts
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