The seminar is designed as a place of exchange between historians of physics, philosophers of physics, physicists and students in relevant disciplines. Although the program this year has no specific theme, it reflects the interest of the organizers for the questions that drive us to cross disciplinary boundaries: between physics and philosophy, history and philosophy, between theoretical construction and experience, between physics and other sciences.

Presentation

The seminar is designed as a place of exchange between historians of physics, philosophers of physics, physicists and students in relevant disciplines. Although the program this year has no specific theme, it reflects the interest of the organizers for the questions that drive us to cross disciplinary boundaries: between physics and philosophy, history and philosophy, between theoretical construction and experience, between physics and other sciences.

Archives

Program 2016-2017

October 11

• Christian Joas(Université Ludwig Maximilian, Munich) Quantum many-body physics in the 1950s.

November 22

• Andreas Hüttemann (University of Cologne) Causal explanation, metaphysical explanation and the part-whole-relation.

January 10, 2017

• Jos Uffink (University of Minnesota) Schrödinger’s work on entanglement and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox before 1935.

January 17

• Jean Seidengart (University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre) Duhem et les limites de son phénoménisme : la théorie physique peut-elle se contenter de « sauver les phénomènes » ?

January 24

• Martin Niss (University of Roskilde) A Mathematician doing physics: Mark Kac and phase transitions in the 1960s.

March 14

• Tilman Sauer (University Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz)

March 21

• Daniel Jon Mitchell (University of Aix-la- Chapelle) "The etherealisation of common sense"? J.D. Everett, James Thomson and 19th-century mathematics of measurement.

Organizers