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Center for Philosophy of Science
1117 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

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PROGRAM (subject to change)

Thursday, April 11
1117 CL

10:00

Welcome & Introduction

 

Morning Session Chair: Porter Williams (USC)

10:05

Tushar Menon, James Read, and Niels Linneman (Oxford, Oxford, and Geneva): "Rotating Spacetimes and the Relativistic Null Hypothesis"

10:45

Qiu Lin (Duke): "Émilie du Châtelet’s Views on Space"

11:25

Coffee Break

11:55

Josh Hunt (Michigan): 
"Staying On-shell: Modern Methods in Particle Physics"

12:35

Lunch (On Your Own)

 

Afternoon Session Chair: Michael Miller (Toronto)

2:00

Sébastien Rivat (Columbia): 
"Two Cheers for Effective Theories and Selective Realism"

2:40

Joshua Eisenthal (Pittsburgh) & Neil Dewar (MCMP): 
"A Raum with a View: Hermann Weyl and the Problem of Space"

3:20

Coffee Break

4:10

Keynote Address: Laura Ruetsche (Michigan), Aristidis Arageorgis, John Earman: 
"Additivity Principles for Quantum Probabilities"

5:30

Adjourn

 

Friday, April 12
1117 CL

9:30

Breakfast

 

Morning Session Chair: Laura Ruetsche (Michigan)

10:00

Nuria Muñoz Garganté (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science):
"The Role of Symmetry-Breaking in "More is Different""

10:40

John Dougherty (MCMP): "Fields, Loops, and the Strong CP Problem"

11:20

Coffee Break

11:50

Ben Feintzeig (Washington): "Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories"

12:30

Adjourn

 

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