Workshop, 24-25 May 2012
Programme
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Thursday 24 May
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9h15 opening
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9h30-10h45 Tim Maudlin (New York University): The metaphysics of quantum physics
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10h45-11h15 coffee break
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11h15-12h30 Detlef Dürr (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich): The lessons of Bohmian mechanics. Who cares about hilbertspace and observables?
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12h30-14h00 lunch
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14h00-15h00 Michael Esfeld (University of Lausanne): Dispositions in the philosophy of physics
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15h00-16h00 Mario Hubert (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich): Dispositions in Bohmian mechanics
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16h00-16h30 coffee break
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16h30-17h30 Dustin Lazarovici (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich): Who is afraid of quantum states? From the Universe to a Subsystem
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17h30-18h00 coffee break
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18h00-19h15 Room 4030 Anthropole Building Jean Bricmont (Catholic University of Louvain): Sociology and epistemology
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19h30 Dinner
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Friday 25 May
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9h15-10h15 Matthias Egg (University of Lausanne): Philosophical lessons from recent experiments on quantum non-locality
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10h15-11h15 Adrian Wüthrich (University of Bern): Common cause realism in the EPR experiment
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11h15-11h45 coffee break
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11h45-12h45 Tomasz Bigaj (University of Warsaw): Are elementary particles even weakly discernible?
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12h45-14h15 lunch
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14h15-15h15 Norman Sieroka (ETH Zurich): On the historical origin and systematic sharpening of holography
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15h15-16h15 Vincent Lam (University of Queensland & University of Lausanne): Quantum entanglement and general relativistic spacetime
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16h15-16h45 coffee break
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16h45-17h45 Antonio Vassallo (University of Warsaw & University of Lausanne): Planck-scale Metaphysics: An appraisal of Bohmian quantum gravity
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17h45-18h00 coffee break
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18h00-19h15 Room 4030 Anthropole Building Tim Maudlin (New York University): Primitive ontology and the mind-body problem