[PhilPhys] Workshop Announcement: Quantum Investigations (Bristol 22nd March 2025)

[Karim Thebault]

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Quantum Investigations
22nd March 2025

The Bristol Centre for Science and Philosophy is delighted to announce a workshop in the history and philosophy of science: Quantum Investigations, which will take place on 22nd March 2025. The workshop explores philosophical and historical questions in the foundations of quantum theory: from Bohr to Wheeler; from Complementarity to Mysticism; from Quantum Biology to the Physics of Information. 

Further details are below and at the website:

https://philosophyofphysicsbristol.org/quantum-investigations/

Please email karim.thebault at bristol.ac.uk to register.

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Venue  

G2 Cotham House, University of Bristol, 
29 Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL

Programme

22nd March 2025 09:30 - 17:30

09:30 – 10:15: Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht): Better than Bohr? Grete Hermann’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
10:15 – 11:00: Ray Pedersen (Oxford) and Jer Steeger (Bristol): Complementarity as infringement
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:15:  Noah Stemeroff (Bristol): Baptised Anti-Metaphysical? Pauli and Heisenberg’s Later Mysticism 
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45: Noemi Bolzonetti and Mor Lumbroso (Utrecht):  The Eye as an Optical Instrument – Bohr, Physiology and the Gamma Ray Microscope
14:45 – 15:30: Margarida Hermida (Bristol & King’s College London): Philosophy of Quantum Biology
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee
16:00 – 16:45: Stefano Furlan (Utrecht): Beyond the End of Time – Prolegomena to ‘It from Bit’
16:45 – 17:30: Dean Rickles (Sydney): Why Your Cosmos Needs You: John Wheeler and the Physics of Information


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Bristol Centre for Science and Philosophy
Winter and Spring 2025 Events
https://philosophyofphysicsbristol.org/events/

Upcoming Events

5 February // Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht) // Unscrambling Subjective and Epistemic Probabilities
12 February // Sarwar Ahmed (Wuppertal) // Inference to the Source: The Case of Observing a Binary Black Hole Merger
26 February // David Wallace (Pittsburgh) // Learning to Represent
22 March // Quantum Investigations Workshop
26 March // Dean Rickles (Sydney) // The Metaphysical Implications of an Ontology of Information
2 April // Dean Rickles (Sydney) // The Physics and Philosophy of Information

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