[PhilPhys] History and philosophy of laws of nature at Roma Tre

[Mauro Dorato]

The date is obviously December the 3rd, not November the 3rd
sorry for the three messages

Mauro Dorato

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 8:20 PM Mauro Dorato <mauro.dorato at gmail.com> wrote:

> 3 November AULA VERRA, Via Ostiense 234, 9.00
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> 9.30 10.30
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> Laws and Necessities: On the Ineffective Reasonableness of Mathematics
> (Robert Di Salle, Philosophy UWO)
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> Newton's Principia advanced the idea of a world governed by strict
> mathematical law. Hume's admiration for Newton's laws did not prevent him
> from advancing his well-known skeptical argument against the idea of
> necessary connections in nature. But Newton himself anticipated some of
> Hume's skeptical concerns. I will show how, in facing those concerns,
> Newton took a far-sighted view of the power and the limitations of
> mathematical laws, and the subtle relations between natural powers and our
> mathematical pictures of them. Along the way, he articulated what it means
> to take a realist perspective on laws that are probably wrong.
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> 10:30.11 Coffee break
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> 11:00-12:00 Paolo Pecere (Philosophy, Roma 3)
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> "Forces, Laws and Grounds: Kant's Newtonianism and the limits of cognition"
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> I will present and analyse connections between Kant's philosophical
> account of Newtonian physics and his theory of knowledge. I will show, on
> the one hand, that Kant does not merely provide a "foundation" of Newton's
> physics, but rather thinks that scientific knowledge necessarily requires a
> "metaphysical" element – indeed, this metaphysical part of science even
> leads to a partial correction of Newton's original insights. On the other
> hand, I will argue that this framework involves an intrinsic limitation of
> scientific knowledge, and human cognition in general, as it is summarized
> in the "Logic" and in different passages of the Critical works. This is a
> further step of Kant's deep and original engagement with Newtonianism as a
> philosophical alternative to Rationalism.
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> 12-13
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> What Breathes Fire into the Equations? (Barry Loewer, Philosophy, Rutgers)
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> Since the 17th century discovering the fundamental laws of nature has been
> the primary goal of fundamental physics. While it is the task of scientists
> to discover what laws there are, it is the task of philosophers to explain *what
> laws are*. In Stephen Hawking’s words the philosophical question is “What
> breathes fire into the equations?” In recent metaphysics there is a debate
> tween Humean and non-Humean answers to Hawking’s question. In the course of
> dealing with some serious objections to Lewis’ account I sketch an
> alternative, “the Package Deal Account” (PDA). The PDA transcends the
> dispute between Humean and non-Humean accounts in a manner that may strike
> one as a kind of Kantian compromise. In my talk after some table setting I
> explain and defend the PDA of laws
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> 15.16   Nino Zanghì (Physics, Genova)
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> Relational Laws of Motion
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>  abstract:   I'll give an overview of the relational approach to mechanics
> in the classical case (Barbour and collaborators) and the quantum case
> (recent work of Duerr, Goldstein and myself).
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> 16-17. Discussion
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> --
> Mauro Dorato
> Professor of Philosophy of Science
> Department of Philosophy, Communication and Media Studies, room 220
> Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 234, 00146 Rome, Italy, tel
> +39 0657338354, fax +39 06 57.33.83.40
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> http://www.filcospe.it/index.php/persone/docenti/67-docenti/mdorato/442-curriculum-vitae-dorato
> Quaedam ergo nos magis torquent quam debent, quaedam ante torquent quam
> debent, quaedam torquent cum omnino non debeant (Seneca, Liber II,
> Epistula XIII); Quaeris' inquit 'quid profecerim? amicus esse mihi
> coepi.' Multum profecit: numquam erit solus. Scito esse hunc amicum
> omnibus. (liber 1, epistula 6;  "Humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere,
> neque detestari, sed intelligere" (Spinoza)
> http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it/mdorato/
>


-- 
Mauro Dorato
Professor of Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy, Communication and Media Studies, room 220
Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 234, 00146 Rome, Italy, tel
+39 0657338354, fax +39 06 57.33.83.40
http://www.filcospe.it/index.php/persone/docenti/67-docenti/mdorato/442-curriculum-vitae-dorato
Quaedam ergo nos magis torquent quam debent, quaedam ante torquent quam
debent, quaedam torquent cum omnino non debeant (Seneca, Liber II, Epistula
XIII); Quaeris' inquit 'quid profecerim? amicus esse mihi coepi.' Multum
profecit: numquam erit solus. Scito esse hunc amicum omnibus. (liber 1,
epistula 6;  "Humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed
intelligere" (Spinoza)
http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it/mdorato/
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