4/24/14
Organizational meeting
4/10/14
Francois Englert, Broken Symmetry and Yang-Mills Theory
3/27/14
Frank Arntzenius, Space, Time, & Stuff, Chapter 3: The world according to quantum mechanics
3/13/14
Craig Callender, Taking Thermodynamics Too Seriously
2/20/14
Max Tegmark, Consciousness as a State of Matter
2/6/14
Susan Schneider, What is the Significance of the Intuition that Laws of Nature Govern?
1/16/14
Abhay Ashtekar, Luca Bombelli, and Oscar Reula, The Covariant Phase Space of Asymptotically Flat Gravitational Fields
12/16/13
Imre Lakatos, Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
12/2/13
Jonathan Cohen and Craig Callender, A Better Best System Account of Lawhood
11/18/13
Francesco Buscemi, All Entangled Quantum States are Nonlocal
11/4/13
Jeffrey Barett, Empirical Adequacy and the Availability of Reliable Records in Quantum Mechanics
10/21/13
Sheldon Goldstein, Stochastic Mechanics and Quantum Theory
Guido Bacciagaluppi, A Conceptual Introduction to Nelson’s Mechanics
9/30/13
Jonathan Bain, Emergence in Effective Field Theories
9/23/13
Presentation: Gabriele Carcassi, Determinism and Reversibility: how they coincide with Hamiltonian mechanics and why they are needed
9/16/13
Tim Maudlin, On the Unification of Physics
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