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 PhysicsConference (May 25-26, 2025)
May 27, 2025
| 9:30am | Javier Medina Barrientos (UCSD) | “Philosophical Puzzles of Warp Drive Spacetimes” |
| 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:45am | Shelly Shi (UCSD) | “Why Not a Gravitational Perpetual Motion Machine?” |
| 11:45am | Lunch | |
| 1:00pm | Michael Huber | “An Attempt to Showcase Conceptual Incoherence of Anti-Realist Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics” |
| 2:00pm | Break | |
| 2:15pm | Dominic Ryder (LSE) | “Is Black Hole Evaporation Prediction Friendly?” |
| 3:15pm | Break | |
| 3:45pm | Steven Weinstein (University of Waterloo) | Keynote Address |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
May 28, 2025
| 9:30am | Patrick Fraser (University of Toronto) | “Quantity Valuation in Algebraic Quantum Theory” |
| 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:45am | Ellen Shi (UC Irvine) | “Algebraic Formalisms and Relationalism” |
| 11:45am | Lunch | |
| 1:00pm | Paola Fontana | “Abductive Arguments for Paraconsistency” |
| 2:00pm | Break | |
| 2:15pm | Bosco 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.