[PhilPhys] Call for Abstracts: Warsaw Spacetime Conference 2020

[Antonio Vassallo]

(With apologies for cross-posting)


*Warsaw Spacetime Conference 2020 (WSC**2020**)*



*Date** and Venue*

3-4 September 2020

Warsaw University of Technology, Plac Politechniki 1, Warsaw

Main Building, room 206


*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 at 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 philosophyof physics group
<http://www.icfo.ans.pw.edu.pl/en/?page_id=3168> at the International
Center of Formal Ontology in collaboration with the Center for Theoretical
Physics <http://www.cft.edu.pl/en/> (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 at pw.edu.pl.





Antonio Vassallo, PhD
<https://www.ans.pw.edu.pl/Wydzial/Zaklady/Zaklad-Filozofii-i-Etyki-w-Administracji/PhD-Antonio-Vassallo>

Assistant Professor

International Center for Formal Ontology

Warsaw University of Technology
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