The Annual Philosophy of Logic, Math, and Physics (LMP) Graduate Conference

Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference

May 27-28, 2025

Department of Philosophy, Stevenson Hall, Room 1145

With Keynote Address from Steven Weinstein (University of Waterloo)

Held in conjunction with the Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics
Conference (May 25-26, 2025)

May 27, 2025

9:30amJavier Medina Barrientos (UCSD)“Philosophical Puzzles of Warp Drive
Spacetimes”
10:30am Break
10:45amShelly Shi (UCSD)“Why Not a Gravitational Perpetual Motion Machine?”
11:45amLunch
1:00pm Michael Huber“An Attempt to Showcase Conceptual Incoherence of
Anti-Realist Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics”
2:00pmBreak
2:15pmDominic Ryder (LSE)Is Black Hole Evaporation Prediction Friendly?”
3:15pmBreak
3:45pm  Steven Weinstein (University of Waterloo)Keynote Address
7:00 pmDinner

May 28, 2025

9:30amPatrick Fraser (University of Toronto)“Quantity Valuation in Algebraic Quantum Theory”
10:30am Break
10:45amEllen Shi (UC Irvine)“Algebraic Formalisms and Relationalism”
11:45am  Lunch
1:00pmPaola Fontana“Abductive Arguments for Paraconsistency”
2:00pmBreak
2:15pmBosco Garcia (UCSD)“Neural Entropy: Between Statistical Mechanics and
Thermodynamics”
3:15pm  
Awarding of the Robert K. Clifton Memorial Book Prize

The LMP Graduate Conference is supported by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western’s Departments of Philosophy and of Physics, Western’s Society of Graduate Students (SOGS), and Western Research.

Organizers

L. Edward Allore (chair), Jack Johnson (co-chair), Jaipreet Mattu.