philosophy of physics in Paris

Mon Oct 24 13:19:20 CEST 2005

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

please find below a (not necessarily exhaustive) programme of
philosophy of physics events in Paris and some in neighbouring subjects,
as well as a provisional announcement of the joint PPP mini-conferences
in Paris and London.

I shall be c/c-ing to the philphys list my updates and reminders
(mail group "philphys", ESF Network for Philosophical and Foundational
Problems of Modern Physics, Help & Archive:
http://philosophy.elte.hu/philphys.html).

	Best regards,
			Guido Bacciagaluppi

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1) Philosophy of physics seminars
(organisers: G. Bacciagaluppi, M. Bitbol, A. Grinbaum)

Unless otherwise noted: sessions marked IHPST take place in
the Grande Salle at IHPST (13, rue du Four), those marked CREA
in the library (salle 315) at CREA (25, rue de la Montagne
Sainte-Genevive [due to the possibility of checks at the
entrance, please have a form of ID with you]).

	Friday 7 Oct, 13:00-15:00  (IHPST)
	Guido Bacciagaluppi (Paris),
	'Non-linearity, non-locality and classical
	correlations' (in English).

	Friday 4 Nov, 16:00-18:00 (IHPST)
	Larry Schulman (Clarkson),
	Title TBA (in English).

	Friday 18 Nov, 16:00-18:00 (CREA)
	TBA.

	Friday 25 Nov, 16:00-18:00 (CREA)
	Manuel Baechtold (Paris),
	'Cinq formulations du probleme de la mesure
	en mecanique quantique' (in French).

	Presumably no seminars in December.

2) Philosophy, Probability and Physics

This is a series of joint mini-conferences organised
in London and Paris by Stephan Hartmann (LSE) and Guido
Bacciagaluppi (IHPST). They continue the joint series
of seminars we used to organise in Freiburg and Konstanz
(see http://www.uni-konstanz.de/ppm/ppp.htm ).

Details to follow, but the first mini-conference
is being planned for Saturday 5 November in London.

3) Conferences, workshops etc.

a) ACADEMIE EUROPEENNE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE DES SCIENCES
MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME, PARIS

Congres international, 9 et 10 Decembre 2005,
Carre' des Sciences.
"PHYSIQUE ET CONSCIENCE"

Details: see
http://www.crea.polytechnique.fr/activites/P&C.htm

b) Institut Henri Poincare' (IHP)
January 4 - April 7,   2006

Programme QUANTUM INFORMATION,
COMPUTATION AND COMPLEXITY

Details: see
http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr/IHP2006/

c) Workshop on "Scientific mythologies" at CEPPA
5 November 2005 - 29 April 2006

Details: see
http://ceppa.univ-paris1.fr/Mythologies%20scientifiques.html

d) The International Society for the History of Philosophy of
Science (HOPOS) will hold its sixth international congress
in Paris, in cooperation with the Societ de Philosophie
des Sciences (SPS).
Dates: June 14-18, 2006
Location:  Ecole normale superieure, Paris
Conference languages: English and French
Details: see
http://www.sps.ens.fr/activites/hopos2006/indexhopos.html

4) A selection of other lectures and seminars:

a) A lecture by Patrick Suppes.
Monday 7 November 2005, 16:00,
College de France (11, place Marcelin-Berthelot),
amphitheatre Guillaume Bude':
'Neuropsychological foundations of philosophy'

b) SEMINAIRE : HISTOIRE ET PHILOSOPHIE DE LA PHYSIQUE
'Les raisons de l'a-peu-pres'
REHSEIS: Universite' Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
Dalle "Les Olympiades" - Centre javelot
105, rue de Tolbiac ou 59 rue Nationale
75013 PARIS
1er etage gauche
http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr/recherche/semingroupe/physique.htm
Informations :
Nadine de Courtenay decourtenay at wanadoo.fr
Olivier Darrigol darrigol at paris7.jussieu.fr

15 Novembre 2005, 17h00 - 19h00
Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia)
Theoretical and experimental models in probability

Mardi 22 Novembre 2005, 17h00 - 19h00
Karine Chemla (CNRS, REHSEIS)
Les enjeux de l'approximation dans les textes mathematiques
de la Chine ancienne

Mardi 29 Novembre 2005, 17h00 - 19h00
Peter Galison (Harvard University)
Mirror symmetry: Mathematics, physics, and scientific identity

Mardi 13 Decembre 2005, 17h00 - 19h00
Jordi Cat (University of Indiana)
Splendor and misery of conceptual approximations

Mardi 28 Fevrier 2006, 17h00 - 19h00
Juergen Renn (MPIWG, Berlin)
Approximations and toy models

Mardi 21 Mars 2006, 17h00 - 19h00
Allan Franklin (University of Colorado)
Experimental approximations: Robert Millikan, the fifth Force,
and the 17-keV neutrino

Mardi 28 Mars 2006, 17h00 - 19h00
Hasok Chang (Imperial College, London)
Successive approximations and the precision of measurements

Mardi 4 Avril 2006, 17h00 - 19h00
Lena Soler (Archives Poincare', Nancy)
Nature et fonction des approximations mises en jeu dans la
decouverte du courant neutre faible

Mardi 25 Avril 2006, 17h00 - 19h00
Moritz Epple (Universite' de Francfort)
Precision versus exactness in applied mathematics, especially
aerodynamics

c) From the programme of the
Seminaire de philosophie des sciences de l'IHPST
at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Salle Weil (except 24 October)
(organiser: A. Barberousse <barberou at heraclite.ens.fr>).
Le seminaire a lieu tous les lundis de 11h a' 13h.

- Lundi 24 octobre :
Donald Gillies, King's College, Londres
Causality, Propensity & Bayesian Networks

Attention, cette seance a lieu dans la grande salle de l'IHPST

- Lundi 7 novembre :
Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia and IHPST
Theories of Causation and Explanation: Necessarily True or
Domain-Specific?

- Lundi 14 novembre :
Sara Franceschelli, ENS LSH et REHSEIS
Cultures epistmologiques et questions theoriques dans la
correspondance Thom/Waddington de 1967

d) From the programme of the Seminaire  Emergence, IHPST,
Responsables : P. Humphreys, P. Huneman

Vendredi 28 octobre, 13h30-15h30, IHPST.
Autour d'un article de Robert Batterman (auteur de Devil
in the details)

e) From the programme of the Seminaire "Complexite", IHPST
Responsable : H. Zwirn

Jeudi 3 novembre 2005, 17h-19h, IHPST. Roger Balian
(Service de Physique Theorique, CEA, Saclay et Membre de
l'Academie des sciences) donnera une conference intitule :
Reductionnisme et emergence en physique

-- 
Guido Bacciagaluppi
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques
(IHPST)
13, rue du Four
F-75006 Paris
France
Fax: +33 / 1 / 43 25 29 48

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