Lisbon Philosophy of Physics Seminars 2022

The Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon is happy to announce the Lisbon Philosophy of Physics Seminars 2022.

The series of online seminars are organized in the context of the activities of the LanCog Research Group and will focus on the foundations of quantum and spacetime physics.

The program for the spring semester is the following:

11 May (17:00-19:00 CEST): Antonio Vassallo & Pedro Naranjo (Warsaw University of Technology) – A Proposal for a Metaphysics of Self-Subsisting Structures

18 May (17:00-19:00 CEST): Baptiste Le Bihan (University of Geneve) – Composing and Causing Spacetime in Quantum Gravity

25 May (17:00-19:00 CEST): Vera Matarese (University of Bern) – Quantum Fictionalism

1 June (17:00-19:00 CEST): Paula Reichert (Ludwig Maximilian University) – Shape Dynamics and the Big Bang

8 June (17:00-19:00 CEST): Cristian Mariani (University of Barcelona) – Does the Primitive Ontology of GRW rest on Shaky Ground?

15 June: Workshop “On Time in the Foundations of Physics” (co-organized with Cristian Lopez, Université de Lausanne)

22 June (17:00-19:00 CEST): Hans Christian Öttinger (ETH Zürich) –  A robust approach to quantum field theory: A give-and-take situation for philosophy