[PhilPhys] Workshop: “How Quantum Mechanics Changed Philosophy”, 16-17 Jan 2020, Wuppertal

[Marij van Strien]

*Bergische Universität Wuppertal*

*January 16-17, 2020*


The aim of this workshop is to explore the implications of quantum
mechanics for philosophy, both historically and in contemporary debates.
Quantum mechanics is generally regarded as a fundamental theory of nature,
and at the same time often presented as mysterious and problematic to
understand. The particular issues raised by quantum mechanics have had
repercussions for the general understanding of science as well as of the
nature of reality. Many philosophers of natural science have been
particularly interested in quantum mechanics - reflections on quantum
mechanics play a role in the philosophical work of e.g. Reichenbach,
Cassirer, Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Putnam, Van Fraassen and Cartwright. At
the same time, it has been argued that in certain areas of philosophy,
quantum mechanics is unjustifiably ignored.
The workshop aims to explore the roles of reflections on quantum mechanics
in wider philosophical debates, from the early 20th century until the
present, concerning for example causality, realism, the nature of objects,
naturalism, and the very idea of what a scientific theory can look like.


*PROGRAM*

*Thursday, 16 January*

9:00 Yemima Ben-Menahem (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Revisiting the
realism/instrumentalism controversy in the light of quantum mechanics

10:35 Matthias Egg (Universität Bern): Textbook quantum mechanics and the
problem of ontological commitment

11:20 Daniel Kuby (University of Konstanz): Feyerabend’s re-evaluation of
scientific practice: Quantum mechanics, realism and Niels Bohr.

12:05 Marij van Strien (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): How quantum
mechanics changed philosophy of science: Feyerabend vs. Kuhn and Lakatos

14:15 F. A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam & Universiteit Utrecht):
Quantum mechanics: The greatest underdetermination story ever told & the
greatest onslaught on Kant’s Kritik der Reinen Vernunft ever told!

15:35 Hannes Van Engeland (KU Leuven): Quantum mechanics and French
philosophy of science: The case of Gaston Bachelard

16:20 Oliver Passon (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): Kurt Gödel on the
interpretation of quantum mechanics

17:15 Michael Esfeld (University of Lausanne): The philosophical importance
of Bell’s theorem



*Friday, 17 January*

9:00 Richard Healey (University of Arizona): Quantum mechanics has not
changed philosophy enough

9:45 Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University): The impact of quantum mechanics on
philosophy, and what it should be

11:00 Benedetta Spigola (University of Rome “Roma Tre”): Cassirer, quantum
mechanics, and two concepts of causality.

11:45 Michael Cuffaro (University of Utrecht and LMU Munich): Quantum
mechanics and Kantian philosophical method: an exploration of the views of
Grete Hermann

13:45 Jan Faye (University of Copenhagen): Quantum mechanics and human
experience

15:05 Lukas Mairhofer (Universität Wien): Ways of observing

15:50 Philipp Berghofer (University of Graz): Quantum mechanics,
perspectivism, and the phenomenological tradition

17:00 Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds): Quantum theory, progress and
scientific realism


Registration: vanstrien at uni-wuppertal.de
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