July 2009
July 2009
2nd/3rd 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
4th – 5th 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 19th 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 19th July 2009 : Evening Session : 6 shorter talks by Chinese Speakers (all unrecorded)
Wuhan 20th 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 20th 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 19th 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 19th 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 20th 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 20th 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
23rd – 25th 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.