June 1997

June 20th-21st 1997

Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

From Physics to Philosophy  :  Proceedings of A Conference in Honour of Michael Redhead to mark his retirement from the Chair of History and Philosophy of Science in The University of Cambridge

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Track 1 :  Conference Dinner and Speeches

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29390144[/vimeo]

 

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June 20th 1997

 

Track 2  :  Professor Peter LIPTON  (Professor Michael Redheads’s Successor as Chair of the History and Philosophy of Science Department Cambridge)

Ceteris Paribus Laws, Models and Reality

 

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29393301[/vimeo]

Track 3  :  J.W.N. WATKINS (LSE) :

Determinism and Human Intervention.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20901731[/vimeo]

 

 

Track 4 :  Moshe MACHOVER (Kings College London)

Models and Reality  :  Theory – Laden contrasted with Theory-biased Observation . A Case Study in the Contamination of Observation by Theory  or :  The Case of the Absent Abstention

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20893260[/vimeo]

Track 5 :  John L. LUCAS (Merton College Oxford)  :   Intimations of Reality

 

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20898911[/vimeo]

Track 6 :  Elie ZAHAR (LSE) :  Realism in Mathematics and in Physics

 

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20895668[/vimeo]

Track 7 : Paul TELLER (Princeton) : Is All Else always equal ? Reconsidering Ceteris Paribus Clauses

 

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29504526[/vimeo]

 

Track 8: Harvey BROWN

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29626441[/vimeo]

June 21st 1997

Track 8 :  Simon SAUNDERS  (Harvard and Oxford)  :  The “Beables” of Relativistic Pilot-Wave Theory

 

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20904269[/vimeo]

Track 9 : Gordon FLEMING  :  Realistic Relativistic Localisations.

 

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20905981[/vimeo]

Track 10 : Bob CLIFTON (University of Western Ontario) :  Beables in Algebraic Quantum Theory

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29396463[/vimeo]

Track 11 :  STEVEN French (Leeds) :  Models and Mathematics in Physics : The Role of Group Theory.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29494200[/vimeo]

 

Other entries for June 1997 to be added.