| Chicagoland Philosophy of Physics Reading Group | |
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This reading group meets roughly once a month for talks by visiting scholars, presentations of current research by group members, or discussions of recent publications in the philosophy of physics. Meetings take place roughly once per month, in the philosophy department at UIC. For more information, please email Brandon Fogel at this address: me at brandonfogel dot net. |
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| Schedule for 2008-2009 | |
| Wednesday September 10 2008 |
Visiting Scholar: Hasok Chang, STS, University College
London
Topic: Theory choice Data: 6pm at UIC |
| Wednesday October 8 2008 |
Visiting Scholar: Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College,
Cambridge
Topic: Emergence (handouts: longer, shorter) Data: 6pm at UIC Photos: At the board, parrying |
| Wednesday November 12 2008 |
Visiting Scholar: Louis Kauffman, Mathematics, UIC
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| Wednesday January 21 2009 |
Group Member: Brandon Fogel, Society of Fellows, University
of Chicago
Title: The Road Not Taken: Bell's Theorem and the Reality of Counterfactuals Data: 6pm at UIC |
| Wednesday February 11 2009 |
Group Member: Brian Pitts, University of Notre Dame
Title: Empirical Equivalence, Artificial Gauge Freedom and a Generalized Kretschmann Objection Data: 6pm at UIC Abstract |
| Wednesday March 11 2009 |
Discussion: "Quantum Computation and Pseudotelepathic Games", J. Bub,
Philosophy of Science 75 (October 2008), pp. 458–472. |
