[PhilPhys] Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: David Albert (3 December on Zoom)

[Antonio Vassallo]

(With apologies for cross-posting)

On Friday, 3 December, David Albert (Columbia University) will give a talk
titled "Physical Laws and Physical Things" (abstract below).

The meeting will take place online on Zoom (17:00-19:00 CET). If you have
not registered yet, you can do so here <https://forms.gle/qpb8vVjtrF4y2nZ76>
.

The Colloquium is organized by the Philosophy of Physics Group
<https://ans.pw.edu.pl/Nauka/Zespoly-badawcze/Philosophy-of-Physics-Group>
at the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, Warsaw University of
Technology. The program for the winter semester can be found here
<https://ans.pw.edu.pl/Nauka/Zespoly-badawcze/Philosophy-of-Physics-Group/Events/Warsaw-Spacetime-Colloquium-2021-2022-online>.
The videos of the previous meetings are available on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM-1yNCyvJJC0KUgEqXTsFA38luoSiqXo>.

You can address any inquiry to antonio.vassallo at pw.edu.pl.

ABSTRACT
I will consider several strategies for absorbing unwanted pieces of
concrete physical ontology (for example: absolute/substantival Newtonian
space, Maxwellian Electromagnetic fields, and especially and particularly
quantum-mechanical wave-functions) into the metaphysical category of Laws.
I will argue that these strategies work well for the case of Newtonian
absolute space – but that they work poorly for the case of
quantum-mechanical wave-functions.
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