Philosophy of Physics Research Seminars Michaelmas Term 2024

Convened by Chris Timpson

NOTE THE NEW TIME: Oxford seminars will take place in person at 3.00 p.m. on Thursdays in the Lecture Room of Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG. Talks will also be streamed, recorded, and (with speaker’s consent) published on our new You Tube channel

Those on the philosophy of physics mailing list will receive an invitation to join the meetings online; others should contact the convenors directly.

Abstracts are posted weekly.

Week 1 (17 October): David Wallace (Pittsburgh)
The local quantum vacuum as the Past Hypothesis
Note: This talk will be followed by a reception on the 3rd floor, all welcome.

Week 2 (24 October): Peter Morgan (Yale)
QFT as noisy signal processing

Week 3 (31 October): NO SEMINAR

Week 4 (7 November):Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz Universität Hannover).
How do robust abstract economic models explain?

Week 5 (14 November): NO SEMINAR

Week 6 (21 November): Lucy Mason (Royal Holloway)
Measurement, metrology, and perspectives on the quantum state

Week 7 (28 November): BLOC SEMINAR (joint Bristol, London, Oxford, Cambridge): Simon Saunders (Oxford)
Quantum kinematics as intrinsic probability
Note: this seminar will take place in person only, at the LSE, Lakatos Building LAK 2.06, London WC2A 2HE, at 16.30.

Week 8 (5 December): Richard Healey (Arizona)
How to be a single-world quantum relativist