[PhilPhys] Leeds Workshop on Objects and Symmetry (this time with date!)

[Steven French]

University of Leeds
Centre for History and Philosophy of Science
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science

One Day Workshop: Symmetry, Structure and the Constitution of Objects
Tuesday August 21st

10.45 coffee, welcome, find your seats

11-12 Elena Castellani (Florence) and Laura Crosilla (Leeds) ‘Objects: A Structural Constructivist Approach’

12-1 Fred Muller (Rotterdam; Utrecht) ‘Properties Out of Relations, Rigorously’

1 - 2 lunch

2-3 Silvia di Bianci (Dortmund) ‘Symmetries and Methods in Physics: The Case of Majorana's Strategy in A Symmetric Theory of Electrons and Positrons’

3- 3.30 tea

3.30 - 4.30 Adam Caulton (Cambridge) ‘Symmetries as Constitutive A Priori Principles’

4.30 - 5 Discussion

There is no registration fee but please indicate attendance for catering purposes.

The workshop will be held in Philosophy, BG36.

All enquiries to: s.r.d.french at leeds.ac.uk


(Apologies for the double posting!)


Steven French
Professor of Philosophy of Science
School of Humanities
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK

Tel: 0113 3433279
Email: s.r.d.french at leeds.ac.uk
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20048/philosophy/person/902/steven_french

Co-Editor, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Editor-in-Chief, New Directions in Philosophy of Science, Palgrave-Macmillan

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