Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar convenors: Paolo Faglia, Gregor Gajic, and Rachel Pedersen
| Week 2 (7th May) | Margherita Moro (Leeds) | Three kinds of empirical incoherence |
| Week 4 (21st May) | Kartik Tiwari (University of Bonn) | On Infinities of Cosmological Spacetimes |
| Week 6 (4th Jun) | Xavier Morales Zayes (St. John's College) | A Critique of the Thesis that Simultaneity is Conventional in Special Relativity |
| Week 2 (29th Jan) | Pierce Comerford (Oxford) | Ineluctable modality: the Deutsch--Wallace theorem as necessary rather than redundant |
| Week 4 (12th Feb) | Luka Vinck (Amsterdam) | Perturbative Background Independence in Algebraic Approaches to Semiclassical Quantum Gravity |
| Week 6 (26th Feb) | Shelly Shi (San Diego) | Why Not a Gravitational Perpetual Motion Machine? |
| Week 8 (12th Mar) | Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn) | Einstein's six theories of gravity |
| Week 2 (23rd Oct) | Paolo Faglia | No relative facts in Healey's pragmatist approach to quantum theory |
| Week 4 (6th Nov) | Matt Hitchens | Two kinds of generality |
| Week 6 (20th Nov) | Ray Pedersen | Injustice and resistance in the game of philosophy |
| Week 8 (4th Dec) | Bryan Cheng | On the prediction of the Omega minus baryon |
| Week 1 (1st May) | Paolo Faglia (Oxford) | Perspectives in Special Relativity: against fragmentalism |
| Week 2 (8th May) | Aditya Jha (Cambridge) | Thermodynamics has never been subjective, classical or quantum |
| Week 4 (22nd May) | Lem Tsikas (Bristol) | The Coarse-Grained Gibbs Entropy and The Phase-averaged Boltzmann Entropy. |
| Week 8 (19th Jun) | Eleanor March (Oxford) | Minimal coupling, the strong equivalence principle, and the adaptation of matter to spacetime geometry |
| Week 1 (23rd Jan) | Marta Bielińska (Oxford) | Prolegomenon to an Epistemology of Orbifolds |
| Week 2 (30th Jan) | Jonathan Fay (University of Bristol) | On Reissner's hypothesis: Historical proposals for a Machian unification of gravity and inertia |
| Week 3 (6th Feb) | Reading group/discussion | Modal interpretations of quantum mechanics |
| Week 4 (13th Feb) | Maren Bräutigam (University of Cologne) | Leibniz's Principle and similar particles |
| Week 5 (20th Feb) | Eleanor March (Oxford) | The logical sequence of his Principles: Understanding Du Châtelet on Newton's law of gravitation in the Principia |
| Week 6 (27th Feb) | Rupert Smith (University of Bristol) | Scientific representation and the hole argument: insights from a structuralist approach |
| Week 7 (6th March) | Wessel Vinke (University of Oxford) | Is there a hole in the hole argument? |
| Week 8 (13th March) | Paolo Faglia (Oxford) | Perspectives in Special Relativity: against fragmentalism. |
| Week 1 (17th Oct) | Eleanor March | What is minimal coupling, really? |
| Week 2 (24th Oct) | Bryan Cheng | Empirically Grounding Representation |
| Week 3 (31st Oct) | Ray Pedersen | For one dendritic world |
| Week 4 (7th Nov) | Will Wolf | Underdetermination in dark energy and inflationary cosmology. |
| Week 5 (14th Nov) | Maria Avramidou | The problem of chaos in philosophy of science |
| Week 6 (21st Nov) | Frank Cudek | Localising singular structure of spacetime |
| Week 7 (28th Nov) | Paolo Faglia | Relational Quantum Mechanics does not solve the measurement problem |
| Week 8 (5th Dec) | Marta Bielinska | Prolegomenon to an epistemology of orbifolds |