July 2007

In July 2007 The Archive Trust recorded or made arrangements to share recordings made by others of the following events :

 

2nd – 3rd JULY 2007

University College London

University of London Philosophy Centre and Royal Institute of Philosophy 2007 Annual Conference :

Kant and Modern Philosophy of Science

 

2nd July 2007 Recordings :

AM Session : Kant and Philosophy of Science

Talk 1 : Michael FRIEDMAN (Stanford)

Einstein. Kant and The Relativised A Priori

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including text of M. friedman’s Talk

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Talk 2 : Michaela MASSIMI (University College London)

Why there are not ready-made phenomena : What Philosophers of Science should learn from Kant

plus following discussions

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Memorandum of Discussions with Speakers during AM Coffee Break 2nd July 2007.

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Talk 3 : Hasok CHANG (University College London)

Conditional Transcendental Arguments for Ontological principles

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Memorandum of discussions with speakers during Lunch Interval

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PM Session on Kant and The Philosophy of Mathematics

Talk 1 :  Carl POSY (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Intuition and Infinities : Kantian Themes in The Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics

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Talk 2 : Daniel SUTHERLAND (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Kant and Frege on Numbers, Units and Intuition

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Talk 3 : Marcus GIAQUINTO (University College London)

Synthetic A Priori Knowledge in Geometry : The Recovery of A Kantian Insight

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3rd July 2007  : Day 2 of Conference

AM Session : Kant and The Philosophy of Physics : Chair : Michaela MASSIMI

Talk 1 : F. WEINERT (Bradford)

The Long Arm of Kant’s Copernican Turn

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Talk 2 by Margaret MORRISON (University of Toronto)

Measurability, Reduction and Unification : The Unity of Nature and the Unification of Structure in  Mathematical Natural Science

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Talk 3 : Thomas RYCKMAN (Stanford University)

Invariance Principles as Regulative Ideals.

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Notes of discussions with speakers during  Lunch on 3rd July 2007 and during PM Coffee Break

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Talk 4 : Roberto TORRETTI (University of Puerto Rico)

Objectivity : A Kantian Perspective

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Notes of Evening Discussions with speakers and other participants esp. Thomas Ryckman and Alex Afriat

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4th – 8th JULY 2007

ASKLOSTER 2007 SYMPOSIUM :

 

4th July 2007  :  Travel to Varberg.

Memorandum of evening discussions with B.J. HILEY and Maurice De GOSSON

On the Clifford Algebra – based approach to teh Twistor Formalism with some observations concerning the roles of the Real and Complex Numbers in Physics

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Memorandum of discussions between Ernst BINZ  Basil Hiley and Maurice De GOSSON.

With notes of discussion with Professor Ernst BINZ on (relevance to Physics of concepts of) Fibrations and Differential Forms with a note of his reamrks on Functional Analysis and the work of Ehresmann and Frohlicher

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Further notes of discussions with M. DeGOSSON on Gromov’s Squeezing Theorem and the prospects  for  a  completely  geometric formulation of Quantum Mechanics

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Day 1 of SYMPOSIUM : 5th July 2007

AM Talks :

Talk 1 : Ernst BINZ :

On the Classical Mathematical Sources of Quantisation and the Quantum Formalism

With particular reference to Radar, Geometrical Optics and the role of Symplectomorphisms

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-507672471805081316

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8550780591245273027

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Talk 2 : Basil HILEY : 4 Roads to Quantum Reality from The Bohmian Viewpoint

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8550780591245273027

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5394289334212935797

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Talk 3 : Maurice De GOSSON :

G.H. Hardy’s Uncertainty principle, the Wigner Distribution  and Sympletic Capacity : Keys to a Topological understanding of Quantisation

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Day 2 of SYMPOSIUM : 6th July 2007

 

Talk 1 : Freddy Van OYSTAEYEN (University of Antwerp)

Non-commutative Topology : The Dynamical Non-commutative Geometry of Timed Spaces and some speculative remarks on Reality

plus following discussions

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6779451489858688547

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Talk 2 : Bob COECKE (Oxford University Dept. of  Computer Science)

From Symmetric Monoidal categories to A Simple graphical calculus for Systems with Quantum Structure

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 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2126015915422910616

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Talk 3 : Harald ATMANSPRACHER :

Contextual Emergence in Physics and in Cognitive Neuroscience : The role of generating partitions

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2704887529979902203

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1090278325686697298

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5203136827089795580

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Talk 4 : Georg WIKMAN (Founder The AsklosterSeminar)

The Search for A Theory of Indistinguishables

Plus Following Discussion

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1201941878834998187

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3281390046805507459

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3641050049349933114

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3562493991753938456

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1207708792875178595

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Day 3 of SYMPOSIUM : 7th July 2007

 

Talk 1 : Tim PALMER (EMRWF Reading)

Free variable local causality and the Invariant Set Hypothesis

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=18373697808391646697

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-33990784486553980

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Memorandum of a discussion before PM Talks on 7th July 2007 on the geometrical contexts and souces of Universal Constructions in Mathematics : reflections on the legacies of MacLane Grothendieck and Lawvere.

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Talk 2 : Isaar STUBBE (University of Antwerp)

An alternative approach to Non-commutative Topology.  

Key words : Lawvere Reals and Cauchy Completion. Sheafification. Quantales. Relations versus Functions. 

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1790968072496004804

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7th July 2007 PM Talks :

PM Talk 1 : Harald ATMANSPRACHER

Quantum and Other Approaches to Consciousness

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4460842328912232934

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PM Talk 2 : Paavo PYLKKANEN (Helsinki)

Mind, Matter and The Implicate Order

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9146568889658537599

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5326384259467231483

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Evening  7th July 2007

Memorandum of a Discussion with M. De Gosson and H. Atmanspracher : What will be the deepest and/or the most influential developments of the next 50 Years

i) In Mathematics ?

ii) In Physics ?

iii) in the Sciences as a Whole ?

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Day 4 of SYMPOSIUM : 8th July 2007

 

AM Talk 1 : Thomas FILK : Quantum Mechanics in Relational Space

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AM Talk 2 : Freddy Van OYSTAEYEN (University of Antwerp)

Quantization of Relations : The Structure of processes as encoded in relations

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Memorandum of discussions with F. van Oystaeyen on Sheaf Theory 8th July 2007 PM

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PM Talk 8th July 2007

Basil HILEY (TPRU Birkbeck College London)

Summary and Review of Askloster 2007 Discussions

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To be added.

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9th JULY 2007 : Askloster 2007 Postscript :

Notes of discussions with/exposition by BJ Hiley on Quantum Chromodynamics and other topics.

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Finis Askloster 2007 Symposium.

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11th-18th July 2007

Conference at Cerisy-la-salle :

De l’auto-organisation au temps du projet (autour de Jean-Pierre DUPUY)

Details to be added

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12th July 2007

Notes of interview with Dr John BILTON (Imperial College London Chemistry Department) on the protein folding problem : a historical overview, current developments, new approaches and their promise

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16th July 2007

Notes of a Discussion on Robert Rosen’s ideas about Complex (Anticipatory) and Simple (Mechanical) Systems and the prospects for formulating them more fritfully in a category-theoretic framework

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17th July 2007

Notes of a conversation in Brussels at Free University of Brussells with Tomas EVERAERT about the 5th-10th June 2007 Haute Bodeux Meeting on Categorical methos in Geometry and Topology (see Catalogue entries for June 2007) and CT 2007 Carveillo Portugal 17th-23rd June 2007 (see Catalogue entries for June 2007) 

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20th July 2007

Notes on relationship between Set Theory – in various meanings of that expression – and Geometry and Topology suggested particularly by postings by Paul Taylor on Categories List and F.O.M. list and discussions thereon.

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27th – 29th JULY 2007 

CSHPM/BSHM 2007

Concordia University Montreal : 4th Joint Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics and The British Society for the History of Mathematics

 

27th JULY 2007

AM Session 27th July 2007

Talk 1 : Josipa G. PETRUNIC :

In the wake of empiricism : British Empirical traditions in Mathematical Thought (1860-1880) and Felix Klein’s Erlangen Program as a (contrastive) response to them : AContrastive Case Study in 19th Century Mathematical Styles

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Talk 2 : Dirk SCHLIM

On the creative role of axiomatics in the discovery and development of lattice theory : with some remarks on the challenges recognition of this role pose to the Classical Model of Science.

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Talk 3 : Elaine LANDRY

How to be A Structuralist ALL The way Down :

Algebraic Structuralism as a response to some recent criticisms of Category-theoretic Structuralism by Hellman and Shapiro

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Talk 5 : Jean-Pierre MARQUIS

The early history of Categorical Logic in Montreal

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PM Session 27th July 2007

PM Session Talk 1 : Bart van KERKOVE

The Historicity of Mathematics : The Case of Computer Proof

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PM Session Talk 2 : Makmiller PEDROSO :

Realism and Mathematical Truth.

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PM Talk 3 : Jason DOUMA

Philosophical Intelligences : A potential model for the teaching of Mathematics ?

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PM Talk 4 : Israel KLEINER : Richard Dedekind (1830-1916) : A Path-breaking Mathematician

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PM Talk 5 : Jean-Philippe VILLENEUVE :

From Cauchy’s Integral to Lebesgue’s Integral – A Case Study in Axiomatisation : When does a new interpretation become a re-interpretation ?

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28th JULY 2007

Session on the Work and Legacy of Leonhard Euler in the Euler Tercentenary Year

The 2007 Kenneth O. May Memorial Lecture

C. Edward SANDIFER :  5 Pearls of Euler

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Talk 2 : Jorden BELL :  Euler’s Summation of A Divergent Series using the pentagonal numbers.

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Talk 3 : Craig FRASER :

Euler’s Use of Divergent Series

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Talk 4 : Rob BRADLEY :

Euler’s resolution of Cramer’s paradox.

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Talk 5 : Munibur CHOWDHURY :

A Birthday Gift for Euler.

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28th July 2007 PM Talk :

Michel SERFATI (Paris)

From Marshall Stone to Saunders MacLane : Elements for an Epistemology of Contemporary Mathematics : The epistemological meaning and consequences of the rise of category-theoretic perspectives and methods.

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Finis Concordia CSHPM/BSHM 2007 Recordings

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More recordings for July 2007 to be added.