July 2009

 

2^nd/3^rd JULY 2009  :  Archives Henri Poincare  Univ.Nancy 2

 Seminaire RIEMANN

Working Group on History of Differential Geometry :

Workshop on Reception and ReLecture of Riemann (1854) by

subsequent Mathematicians

 

 

 

4^th – 5^th JULY 2009 : MP 40 : A Celebration of 40 Years of Oxford’s Mathematics and Philosophy Degree

4th July 2009 : Invited Lectures by Dana SCOTT and Angus MacINTYRE

5th July 2009 : Lectures by Graduates of the Honours School in Mathematics and Philosophy over the last 40 Years

 

6th -10th JULY 2009 : COLLOQUE  :  “L’UNIVERS INVISIBLE : Dark Matter Dark Energy and Other Topics”

Held at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris under the Auspices of UNESCO, CNRS and The Observatoire de Paris

A TOTAL OF 55 Talks were recorded :

Deails of Speakers, Titles and Links to recordings to follow : 

 

 

 

 

13th/14th JULY 2009 : BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Annual General Conference :  University of East Anglia , Norwich, ENGLAND

 

LINK  to Programme of Conference

Within this Programme, the Following Talks were Recorded :

13th JULY 2009 : 

Track 1 :  01.wav :  2 hours 2 minutes 56 seconds

AM : PLENARY SESSION to mark 150th Anniversary of Publication of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” and 200th Anniversary of Birth of Charles Darwin : 

Elliott SOBER and Greg RADICK on “Darwin and The Evidence for Evolution”

 

Track 2 : 02.wav :  2 hours oo minutes 45 seconds  :  13th July 2009

PM PLENARY SESSION :  Simon SAUNDERS and Carl HOEFER :

Probability, Realism and Quantum Mechanics

 

Track 3 :  03.wav :  2 hours 03 minutes 24 seconds :

14th July 2009

PM PLENARY SESSION :

James LADYMAN (Paper read in his absence by Professor Steven FRENCH) and Anjan CHAKRAVARTY

Metaphysics and The Philosophy of Science

Track 4 :  04.wav.  :  22 minutes 21 seconds

13th July 2009 :  Parallel Session 3 :  Talk 1 :

Christian WUTHRICH :  The Hole and the Loop : 

Report (and proffered arbitration) on a recent debate between Dean Rickles and Oliver Pooley concerning the status of the Hole Argument in Hamiltonian General Relativity and in Loop Quantum Gravity

(missing  first c. 8-9 minutes of the Talk)

 

Track 5 :  05 wav. :  1 hour 32 minutes 46 seconds

13th July 2009 :  Parallel Session 3 :  Talk 2 :    14:30 – 15:30 :   Mark SHUMELDA  :  Background Independence in Quantum Gravity

13th July 2009 :  Parallel Session 3 :  Talk 3 : 15:30-16:00 :  Inaki SAN PEDRO :  Common Cause Dependence is Not Conspiracy : A Common Cause Model for EPR Correlations

13th July 2009 :  Parallel Session 3 :  Talk 4 : 16:00 – 16:30 :  George DARBY :  How Holistic is Quantum Mechanics ?

 

Track 6 :  06 wav. :  1 hour 33 minutes 48 seconds

13th July 2009 :  Parallel Session 2 :  Talk 2 :  Steven FRENCH and Peter VICKERS :
Are There No Things That Are Scientific Theories ?

13th July 2009 :  Parallel Session 2 :  Talk 3 : Juha SAATSI (Leeds) : Inconsistency and Realism

13th July 2009 :  Parallel Session 2 :  Talk 4 : Kerry McKENZIE : Arguing Against Fundamentality

 

Track 7 :  07 wav :  1 hour 24 minutes 13 seconds

14th July 2009 :  Parallel Sessions AM (I)

14th July 2009  Parallel Session 1 :  Talk 1

Angelo CEI  : Patterns of Inteference :  Revising the structuralist optimistic reading of scientific change (missing  first  c. 10 minutes of talk)

14th July 2009  Parallel Session 1 :  Talk 2 : Maria KON (Leeds) : Mertz’s Relation Instances and Structuralist Metaphysics

14th July 2009  Parallel Session 1 :  Talk 3 : Matteo MORGANTI :

Identity, Indiscernibility and Naturalist Metaphysics.

 

Track  8 :  1 hour 10 minutes 55 seconds

14th July 2009 Parallel Sessions AM (II)

10:00 – 10:30 :  Mathew PARKER : Definition and Method in Newton’s Scholium

10:30 – 11:00 :  Eric SCHLIESSER : Newtonian Emanation, Measurement and the Baconian origin of the Laws of Nature

 

 

 

18th – 20th July 2009 : WUHAN, China : An International Conference of Chinese and Western Philosophers of Science on the Topics of Structural Realism and Issues in the Philosophy of Quantum Theory.

18th July 2009 : Opening Session of Conference :  Speech by Prof. Zhanhong Wang

Talk 1 : 10:30- 11.30 by Prof. Tienyen CAO :  A Phase Transition is Expected :
Structural Realism : From an Account of Theory Change to a Setting for Theory Creation

Talk 2 : 11:30-12:30 John WORRAL :  Realism Aplenty : But When is Scientific Realism Really Best ?

Talk 3 : Professor Gang CHEN : Structural Realism From A Hierarchical Point of View.

Talk 4 : Steven FRENCH : Metaphysical Humility and The Argument from Ontic Structural Realism.

Talk 5 : Huaxhia ZHANG : Is Cao’s Structural Realism Really A Quasi-Structural Realism ?  –  Reformulation, Justification and Objections.

Talk 6 : Simon SAUNDERS : Structural Realism from Different Standpoints.

Talk 7 :  Wei WANG : A (General) Commentary on Structural Realism.

Wuhan 19^th July 2009

Talk 1 : Steven FRENCH :  The Structure of Representation and the Representation of Structure.

Talk 2 : WenXian Xiang :  A Semantic Approach to Structuralism.

Talk 3 : Giuyou WANG : The Reality of The Object(s) of Quantum Mechanics from the Viewpoint of Structural Realism

Wuhan 19^th July 2009 : Evening Session : 6 shorter talks by Chinese Speakers (all unrecorded)

Wuhan 20^th July 2009

Talk 1 : Prof. Guoquin ZHAO : Curvature Interpretation of QM and Collateral Quantum Space

Talk 3 : Simon SAUNDERS : Many Worlds : An Introduction

Talk 4 :  Qiqan GUI : The EPR Paradox, Distance Correlation of Quanta and Related Crucial Experiments :

A Logical Point of View

Talk 5 : XiaoLong WAN : The Tension Between Explanatory Power and additional requirements :

A Comparative Study in the Interpretations & Philosophies of QM

 Wuhan 20^th July 2009 pm SESSION :Structural Realism & Quantum Theory

Talk 6 : Hongfang LI : The Objectivity of Quantum Measurement

 Talk 7 : Dan ZHAO : A Semantic Analysis concerning Degenerated Relevance

Talk 8 : Jian SHEN : Question-Reduction Model and an Argument  for its Independence

 Talk 9 : Gang CHEN :  Structural Realism

Talk 10 : XinZhong WU : Probability and Curvature in Physics

RECORDINGS OF THE ABOVE MEETING (To be further edited so as to have 1 Recording of each Talk) :

18th – 20th July 2009 : WUHAN, China : An International Conference of Chinese and Western Philosophers of Science on the Topics of Structural Realism and Issues in the Philosophy of Quantum Theory.

7 TRACKS  Recorded :

Track 1 :  IC A 003 MP 3 : 1 hour 22 minutes 17 seconds

18th July 2009 : Opening Session of Conference :  Speech by Prof. Zhanhong Wang

Talk 1 : 10:30- 11.30 by Prof. Tienyen CAO :  A Phase Transition is Expected :
Structural Realism : From an Account of Theory Change to a Setting for Theory Creation

 

Track 2 : IC A 004 MP 3 : 1 hour 42 minutes 8 seconds

Talk 2 : 11:30-12:30 John WORRAL :  Realism Aplenty : But When is Scientific Realism Really Best ?

Talk 3 : Professor Gang CHEN : Structural Realism From A Hierarchical Point of View.

 

Track 3 : IC A 005 MP3 :  1 hour 51 minutes 38 seconds

Talk 4 : Steven FRENCH : Metaphysical Humility and The Argument from Ontic Structural Realism.

Talk 5 : Huaxhia ZHANG : Is Cao’s Structural Realism Really A Quasi-Structural Realism ?  –  Reformulation, Justification and Objections.

 

Track 4 : IC A 006 MP 3 :  1 hour 43 minutes 03 seconds

Talk 6 : Simon SAUNDERS : Structural Realism from Different Standpoints.

Talk 7 :  Wei WANG : A (General) Commentary on Structural Realism.

 

Wuhan 19^th July 2009

Track 5 : IC A 007 MP 3 :  2 hours 50 minutes 59 seconds

Talk 1 : Steven FRENCH :  The Structure of Representation and the Representation of Structure.

Talk 2 : WenXian Xiang :  A Semantic Approach to Structuralism.

Talk 3 : Giuyou WANG : The Reality of The Object(s) of Quantum Mechanics from the Viewpoint of Structural Realism

 

Wuhan 19^th July 2009 : Evening Session : 6 shorter talks by Chinese Speakers (all unrecorded)

 

Track  6 : IC A 008  MP 3 : 4 hours 06 minutes 37 seconds

Wuhan 20^th July 2009

Talk 1 : Prof. Guoquin ZHAO : Curvature Interpretation of QM and Collateral Quantum Space

Talk 3 : Simon SAUNDERS : Many Worlds : An Introduction

Talk 4 :  Qiqan GUI : The EPR Paradox, Distance Correlation of Quanta and Related Crucial Experiments :

A Logical Point of View

Talk 5 : XiaoLong WAN : The Tension Between Explanatory Power and additional requirements :

A Comparative Study in the Interpretations & Philosophies of QM

 

Track 7 : IC A 008 MP3 :  2 hours 45 minutes 55 seconds

Wuhan 20^th July 2009 pm SESSION :Structural Realism & Quantum Theory

Talk 6 : Hongfang LI : The Objectivity of Quantum Measurement

 Talk 7 : Dan ZHAO : A Semantic Analysis concerning Degenerated Relevance

Talk 8 : Jian SHEN : Question-Reduction Model and an Argument  for its Independence

 Talk 9 : Gang CHEN :  Structural Realism

Talk 10 : XinZhong WU : Probability and Curvature in Physics

 

July 23-26 2009 :  Askloster Meeting

Details to be added.  See ASKLOSTER Recordings Section of Archive Catalogue

 

23^rd – 25^th JULY 2009   :  Observatoire de Paris,  Paris Campus

13th Paris Cosmology Colloquium 2009

The Standard Model of The Universe : From Inflation to Today’s Dark Energy

Details of Speakers Titles and Recordings to be added.