Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 2013: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS
24-26 May 2013
Program Committee:
Sorin Bangu (Bergen)
Robert Batterman (Pittsburgh)
Katherine Brading (Notre Dame)
Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)
Brigitte Falkenburg (Dortmund)
Don Howard (Notre Dame)
James Ladyman (Bristol)
Antigone Nounou (Athens)
Ilie Parvu (Bucharest)
Iulian Toader (Bucharest)
SYMPOSIUM ON EINSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
25 May 2013
Local Organizing Committee:
Sorin Costreie (Bucharest)
Andreea Esanu (Bucharest)
Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest)
Sebastian Mateiescu (Bucharest)
Laurentiu Staicu (Bucharest)
Gheorghe Stefanov (Bucharest)
Iulian Toader (Bucharest)
Program
Friday, 24 May
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
(Bristol)
Coffee Break
(Oxford)
“The Aharonov-Bohm effect and non-locality”
(Western Ontario)
“Piezoelectricity as a functional property”
Lunch
(Pittsburgh)
“Phase Transitions and Essential Idealizations”
(Waterloo)
“Intertheoretic relations between statistical mechanics and particle physics”
Coffee Break
(Notre Dame)
19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 25 May
(Dortmund)
Coffee Break
“Time Remains”
(Fort Wayne)
“Principles, Constraints, and Equivalence in String Theory”
Lunch
(Utrecht)
(Erfurt)
Coffee Break
(Bucharest)
“Eigentlich eine Ueberaschung? Einsteins Misstrauen gegenueber der Quantenmechanik”
(Notre Dame)
Sunday, 26 May
(London)
Coffee Break
(Budapest)
“On the localization problem of the common cause”
(Bergen)
“A metaphysical lesson from the physics of the weak interaction”
Lunch
(Pittsburgh)
Farewell