Colloques 2008
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Steven French and Structural
Realism
9h30 Ouverture par Michel
Bitbol (CREA, Paris)
10h00
Steven French (University of Leeds) : Bringing structure out of the
shadows: between object oriented realism and constructive empiricism
11h00
Pause
11h30 Matteo Morganti (IHPST,
Paris) : Reply on ontic structural realism
12h30
Déjeuner
14h30 Steven French
(University of Leeds) : The representation of structure and the
presentation of objects
15h30
Pause
16h00 Alexei Grinbaum (LARSIM
CEA-Saclay) : From symmetry to structure or from structure to symmetry?
17h00
Discussion Générale (sous forme de table ronde informelle)
18h00 Fin des travaux
16-19 Juin 2008
Perspective in Physics and Philosophy
Programme
sur le site officiel
The main
topics of the conference will be the role of internal and external
perspectives, representations, frames of reference and contexts, in various
related fields in physics and philosophy.
Topics:
-perspectival
analysis of causality, flow of time and other time-directed concepts
-role of the
observer or of an agent in the interpretation and construction of physical
theories
-role of
inequivalent representations in quantum mechanics
-meaning of
reference frames (classical and quantum)
-many-worlds
interpretation of quantum mechanics
-relational
interpretation of quantum mechanics
-symmetry in
physics, and in Kant, and issues about synthesis and perception
-objectivity,
invariance and convention
-issues of
perspective and pragmatics in physical modelling
-perspectival
pluralism
The conference
follows on from the one on Time Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics in Sydney in July
2005 (details here) and the one on Decoherence, Quantum Measurement and the
Arrow of Time at Beuggen, Germany, in September 2006 (details here). It is also
part of the activities of the FOUNDPHYS network (IHPST, CREA, LARSIM) funded by
the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
The conference
is supported by the Institut fuer Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und
Psychohygiene, Freiburg, by the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des
Sciences et des Techniques, Paris (principally through project FOUNDPHYS), and
by the Centre for Time, Sydney (through grants of the Australian Research
Council).
Organising
Committee
Harald
Atmanspacher (IGPP Freiburg)
Guido
Bacciagaluppi (University of Sydney and IHPST Paris)
Michel Bitbol
(CREA Paris)
Jacques Dubucs
(IHPST Paris)
Alexei
Grinbaum (LARSIM Paris)
Jenann Ismael
(University of Sydney)
Huw Price
(University of Sydney)