The paper “How Humean is Bohumianism?” (written in collaboration with Tomasz Bigaj) has been just published in Foundations of Physics. Check out the publications section for the details.
Warsaw Spacetime Conference 2020 postponed
Given the uncertain situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizing committee has decided to postpone the conference until next year. A new call for abstracts will be issued in due course.
In the meanwhile, any inquiry can be addressed to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl.
See you soon!
Call for Abstracts: Warsaw Spacetime Conference 2020
Warsaw Spacetime Conference 2020 (WSC2020)
Date and Venue
3-4 September 2020
Warsaw University of Technology, Main Building, room 206
Plac Politechniki 1, Warsaw
Description
The conference goal is to bring together philosophers and physicists interested in the conceptual issues surrounding spacetime physics broadly construed, from classical mechanics to quantum gravity. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
– The ontology of spacetime from classical mechanics to general relativity and beyond.
– Recent theoretical developments in the field of quantum gravity.
– Approaches to quantization in shape space physics.
– Black hole physics and its philosophical implications.
– Historical aspects of the development of spacetime theories.
– General relativity and particle physics: unification perspectives.
– Causation in spacetime physics.
– The dark matter vs. modified gravity controversy.
– Metaphysical foundationalism vs. coherentism under the light of quantum gravity.
– Epistemological challenges in devising empirical tests for quantum-gravitational effects.
Invited Speakers
Tomasz Bigaj (University of Warsaw)
Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona)
Tim Koslowski (University of Würzburg)
Vincent Lam (University of Bern)
Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University)
Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva)
Scientific Committee
Silvia De Bianchi (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Daniele Oriti (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University)
Karim Thébault (University of Bristol)
Antonio Vassallo (Warsaw University of Technology)
Call for Abstracts
Please send a single pdf file with a 500-800 words abstract blinded for review plus a cover page including the author’s information (affiliation, email address) to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl before May 25th, 2020. Abstracts should be suitable for a 30-minute talk. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of June.
The event is organized by the Philosophy of Physics Group at the International Center of Formal Ontology in collaboration with the Center for Theoretical Physics (Polish Academy of Sciences), and is associated with the NCN funded research project “Self-Subsisting Structures in Quantum Gravity” (OPUS grant nr. 2019/33/B/HS1/01772).
Organizers
Antonio Vassallo (Warsaw University of Technology)
Bartłomiej Skowron (Warsaw University of Technology)
Marek Kuś (Warsaw University of Technology/Center for Theoretical Physics PAS)
Official website: http://www.icfo.ans.pw.edu.pl/en/?page_id=3162
Any inquiry can be addressed to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl.