January 2001

The Archive holds the following recordings for January 2001 :

 

8th January 2001 : Meeting of TPRU Seminar (Theoretical Physics Research Unit Birkbeck College, University of London)

Seminar Talk by Professor Basil HILEY

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10th January 2001 : Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social  Room T 206

Lakatos Building Tynes Court London WC 1 : CPNSS Seminar (Chair : Prof. Michael REDHEAD)

Speaker : Antigone NOUNOU (CPNSS) : Fibre Bundles and Gauge Theories

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11th – 14th January 2001 :  Transcripts of 4 sets of aides-memoires noting contents of discussions with

Prof. Alberto Peruzzi (Firenze) on his views of (i) the Significance of Category Theory for the Philosophy of Language, Meaning and Mind and (ii) the sense in which its significance for the Philosophy of Mathematics is derived from (i) : with particular attention to passagesfrom A.Peruzzi’s “Prolegomena to A Theory Of Kinds” in “Logic and Cognition” (Ed. MacNamara and Reyes (1992)

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Saturday 13 January 2001 : Seminaire MaMuPhi ENS PARIS

o Tom JOHNSON (compositeur) : Objets (mathématiques) trouvés

15th January 2001 :  Transcripts of Notes made on Process Metaphysics esp. w.r.t. possible relationship to issues in the Philosophy of Mathematics following Discussion (at Birkbeck College ?)  on Process Philosophy led by Prof Johanna SEIBT (Aarhus)

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15th January 2001 : Meeting of TPRU Seminar, Birkbeck College University of London : Exposition by Prof. Basil Hiley on the role of Symplectic Clifford Algebras and Graded Weyl Algebras as aspects of  an approach to “Pre-Geometry” via the Algebraic Structure of Phase Space. Following Discussion. Braided categories as the possible setting for a unified description of some of the structures involved.

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16th January 2001 : FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge) :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following reading of M. STEFANIK : Category Theory in relation to Mathematical Structuralism : Does the significance of Category Theory for the Philosophy of Mathematics lie in its being a variant or refinement of Structuralism or in something further ?

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18th January 2001 : CPNSS Room T 206 Lakatos Building, Tynes Court, London WC 1

SIGMA CLUB Seminar :

Simon SAUNDERS (Oxford) : On Leibniz’s Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles in relation to Current Physics

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19th January 2001 : FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge) :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following reading of Discussion paper by a member of the Group enttitled “Archoi : Do Mathematical Concepts have a Physical Origin?”

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22nd January 2001 :  FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge) :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following reading of expository and historical portions of  J.L. BELL’s “A Primer of Infiniesimal Analysis”

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25th January 2001 : FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge)  :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following reading of Hermann Weyl’s writings on the meaning of the Gauge Principle. Structuralism and the “De-Ontologization” of Mathematics and Physics.

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29th January 2001 :  6:30 pm : TPRU Seminar with Prof. Basil HILEY and other members of TPRU Research Group, Birkbeck College London)

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30th January 2001 : Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences Lakatos Building Tynes Court, London WC 1 : Room T 206 : CPNSS Seminar (Chaired by Professor Michael REDHEAD)

Speaker : Margaret MORRISON (Toronto) : Symmetries in the Unification of Interactions : The Example of Electroweak Unification : A Case Study in discerning the implications of Physics for Metaphysics ?”

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30th January 2001 : FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge)  :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following reading of Paper by Guiseppe LONGO : “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics and Its Cognitive Roots” (Castiglioncello 2000)

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31st January 2001 : Aide-memoire of own reading and list of questions concerning Papers by FW LAWVERE : “Variable Structures and Variable Quantities in Topoi”  (1975) (especially Section III on Etendues) and “Categories of Space and Quantity” in “The Space of Mathematics” : (Birkhauser 1992)

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31st January 2001 :

Round Table Discussion on “Recent Research on Memory : A Cross-Disciplinary Exchange between researchers in different branches of the neurosciences”

(Source uncertain : possibly part of a Symposium held at University College London. Details to be confirmed.) 

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