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New article in Scientific American discussing my work on strong determinism, with interviews of Emily Adlam, David Wallace, and Al Wilson @modalizing. Many thanks to @danfalk at @sciam for such a nice essay.
scientificamerican.com/artic…
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Some changes in the BJPS editorial team…
Alyssa Ney, Anya Plutynski, and Paul Weirich step down (boo!), while Lauren Ross (@ProfLaurenRoss), Jonah Schupbach, and Al Wilson (@modalizing) join the ranks (yay!).
More here:
thebsps.org/auxhyp/changes-t…
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Final day of our final @FraMEPhys event! - first up is Michael Townsen Hicks, "Laws Unconstrained: Against Minimal Primitivism about Laws of Nature"
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Day 2 of our conference on Metaphysical Explanation in Physics - with Joaquim Giannotti @nothumean and Markel Kortabarria @m_kortabarria on "Scientific Explanation as a Guide to Ground"
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We're under way at our final @FraMEPhys Conference on Metaphysical Explanation in Physics at @mac_birmingham - first talk is from @DrEleanorKnox on Functionalism in Physics
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Our final project conference - on Metaphysical Explanation in Physics - will take place next week, 15-17 May at the MAC in Birmingham. Register here: framephys.org/metaphysical-e…
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When do two physical theories represent the same physical reality? That's the topic of our workshop @PTRBirmingham this Friday 24 Feb, with @HikeMix @weylperson Lorenzo Cocco, Niels Martens and Neil Dewar framephys.org/representation…
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Introducing the Ergo Blog! ergoblog.org/filipa-melo-lop…
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Next from our black holes workshop: two mini-talks by Alastair Wilson @modalizing , on interventionist explanation in causal loop scenarios, and on black holes as a substantive modal discovery youtu.be/zgPFaiV4JBk
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Next up from our October workshop on QM, Alastair Wilson @modalizing talks about applications of low-amplitude quantum events in metaphysical theorizing youtu.be/O0K0t_tcQUc
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Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, begging her collaborator Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first general computer, not to mess with her math
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Today we're excited to host a one-day workshop on the Metaphysics of Black Holes with @BaptisteLeBihan @philophyser @NikkEffingham @modalizing and Sam Baron framephys.org/the-metaphysic…
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Splendid news from the @FraMEPhys group - our Research Fellow @HikeMix will move to @UofGlasgow as a permanent lecturer in philosophy of science and technology when the project concludes next summer. We feel very lucky to have had him on the team!
I'm pleased to announce that next June I will be joining the University of Glasgow as a lecturer. It is bittersweet leaving Oxford, Birmingham, and @FraMEPhys. But I'm very excited about the work I'll be doing up north! youtu.be/h-LvqprQnsI
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Finally, keynote speaker Jonathan Schaffer rounds off the 1st talk of the workshop with a talk on ground physicalism: the ultimate story of the world needs to specify both the purely physical grounds but also the heterogeneous grounding pples.
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Now it’s @HikeMix ’s turn. He thinks agents feature in the 4th order explanation of causal facts (picture below), but this doesn’t make causation subjective. He also argues that this higher-order explanation is connected to ground laws and explanations.
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Coming up this week: Emergence and Reduction in Science and Metaphysics, co-hosted by @FraMEPhys @MetaScienceEU and the Emergence in the Natural Sciences project in Lisbon framephys.org/emergence-and-…
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Alastair Wilson (@modalizing) - Spatiotemporal contingency (Metaphysics Beyond Spacetime 2022 conference). What can quantum gravity tell us about the contingency of spacetime? Comment by Maria Nørgaard. #MetaphysicsBeyondSpacetime
youtu.be/OdbV2Y7WxL0
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Tomorrow we're delighted to host James Woodward for a one-day workshop developing themes from his work on causal explanation - generally taking it in a metaphysical direction! @unibirmingham @PTRBirmingham framephys.org/workshop-theme…
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What roles do our perspectives as observers and as agents play in the explanations that science discovers? Over the next couple of days we'll be exploring this question in Birmingham with an exciting group of speakers framephys.org/causal-perspec…