[PhilPhys] Jim Peebles - The physicists’ philosophy of physics - At the University of Pittsburgh 10/25

[Center for Phil Sci]

*Jim Peebles*

Friday, October 25 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

1008 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh



*Title: The physicists’ philosophy of physics*

*Abstract:  *I shall argue that the practice of research in fundamental
physics follows thinking that has been standard enough for long enough to
be characterized as the physicists’ philosophy. Not all physicists agree
with my thinking, for two main reasons that I will discuss. I wrote the
paper on which this lecture is based to work out my thinking about physics,
and I am presenting this lecture to discover what real philosophers think
of my interpretation of this niche philosophy.

Jim Peebles is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at Princeton who has been a
central figure in cosmology.
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