3 June 2006, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Tilman Sauer, Einstein’s Method in the Discovery of General Relativity

Readings: “Pathways out of Classical Physics. Einstein’s Double Strategy in his Search for the Gravitational Field Equation,” by Tilman Sauer and Jürgen Renn [Link to Tilman’s homepage]

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7 May 2006, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Caro Brighouse, “Determinism in Modern Physics”

Readings: “Aspects of Determinism in Modern Physics,” by John Earman

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26 March 2006, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Stephan Hartmann, “Probability and Decoherence.”

Readings: “Inequalities for Dealing with Detector Efficiencies in GHZ experiments”; “Probabilistic Results for Six Detectors in a Three-Particle GHZ Experiment ”

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26 February 2006, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Chris Smeenk, Philosophy of Cosmology

Readings: “Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology”, by G.F.R. Ellis

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29 January 2006, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Sheldon Smith, Non-Locality in Classical Electrodynamics

Readings: Chapters 3-4 from Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality, by Matthias Frisch

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3 December 2005, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Jeff Barrett, Dualism and the Preferred Basis Problem

Readings: “A quantum mechanical argument for mind-body dualism,” “The preferred-basis problem and the quantum mechanics of everything”

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6 November 2005, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Craig Callender, Time Reversal Invariance

Readings: Earman, “What TRI is and why it matters”, International Studies in Philosophy of Science 16 (2002): 245-264.

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1 October 2005, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: David Malament, “Classical General Relativity”

Readings: Malament, “Classical General Relativity”

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