Name: C2.9 Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
Start: 2015-08-06T17:00:00+0300
End: 2015-08-06T19:00:00+0300

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C2.9 Philosophy of the Physical Sciences

6 August 5:00pm - 7:00pm

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

¿Is Bose Einstein Condensation of Trapped Gases a Phase Transition?
Marco Corgini, Mathematics, Universidad de la Serena, La Serena, Chile

Are Unitarily Inequivalent Representations in Quantum Field Theory
Incommensurable Physical Theories?
Tracy Lupher, Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, USA

Do renormalization group methods explain continuous phase transitions?
Patricia Palacios, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, GERMANY

30 min break (due to the cancellation of Emanuele Rossanese's presentation)

Chairs

Tracy Lupher

Associate Professor, James Madison University

Tracy Lupher is the co-founder and co-director of the Logic and Reasoning Institute. His work focuses on the philosophy of physics along with related issues in the philosophy of science and metaphysics. He is also interested in logic, the philosophy of language, and analytical philosophy... Read More →

Speakers