Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference
June 14-15, 2024
Department of Philosophy, Stevenson Hall, Room 1145
PLEASE REGISTER: https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cUXNQYDqfzBmVPE
With Keynote Address from Marius Stan (Boston College)
“Patterns of Confirmation in Post-Newtonian Mechanics”
Held in conjunction with the Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop (June 16-18, 2023)
June 14, 2024
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Josh Cook (King’s College London) | How would Kant respond to the discovery of General Relativity Theory? |
| 2:30 pm | Break | |
| 2:45 pm | Guannan Mi (University of Oxford) | Fregean Substitutional Analysis of Logical Consequence |
| 3:45 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 pm | Marius Stan (Boston College) | Patterns of Confirmation in Post-Newtonian Mechanics |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
June 15, 2024
| 10:00 am | Arrival | |
| 10:15 am | Lara Spencer (Stanford University) | Practically Rigid Bodies and the Possibility of a Weltbild in Einstein’s “Geometry and Experience” |
| 11:15 am | Break | |
| 11:30 am | George Hobart (University of Oxford) | Action without Reaction: A Contemporary Critique of the Action-Reaction Principle |
| 12:45 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00 pm | Patrick Fraser (University of Toronto) | Reconstructing the Quantum World |
| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:15 pm | Evan Gale (University of Queensland) | Particle Localization: an Unresolved Problem in Relativistic Quantum Physics |
| 4:15 pm | Break | |
| 4:30 pm | Bryan Cheng (University of Oxford) | Locality & Separability in QM: A Short Overview |
| 5:45 pm | Awarding of the Robert K. Clifton Memorial Book Prize |
The LMP Graduate Conference is supported by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Department of Mathematics, Western’s Society of Graduate Students (SOGS), School of Graduate & Postgraduate Studies, Western Research, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Organizers
L. Edward Allore (chair), Pascal Rodriguez Warnier, Kawthar Fedjki, Maximilian Petrowitsch, Annie Adams, Jaipreet Mattu, Nicholas Michieli, Saher Panjwani, Jack Johnson, Carson Johnston, Yifei Ren.