Veranstaltungen

Kolloquium

Alle Vorträge finden von 16 bis 18 Uhr in der Ludwigstraße 31, Raum 021, statt.

Winter Semester 2025/2026

  • 22. Oktober: David Papineau (London) Causal Inference and the Metaphysics of Causation
  • 29. Oktober: Jonathan Shaheen (Uppsala) Places Incorporated: Cavendish on Body and Place as “but one thing”
  • 03. Dezember: Max Kistler (Paris) Integrating Constitution into Causal Models
  • 14. Januar: Christian Wüthrich (Genf) Is spacetime contingent?
  • 21. Januar: Časlav Brukner (Wien) When Performed Experiments Have No Results: Extended Wigner’s Friend Scenarios
  • 28. Januar: Carl Hoefer (Barcelona) Natural kinds, laws, and necessities: lessons
    from post-Twin-Earth science and philosophy
  • 30. Januar: Carrie Figdor (Iowa/Edinburgh) A Defense of Substrate-Dependence
    in the Sciences of the Mind

Sommer Semester 2025

  • 23. April: Benj Hellie (Toronto) Logic and the Mind-Body Problem
  • 14. Mai: Kevin Coffey (NYU Abu Dhabi) Dimensions of Theorizing: Reformulation, Structure, and Symmetry
  • 21. Mai: Valia Allori (Bergamo) Vagueness in Realist Quantum Theories
  • 04. Juni: Mark Balaguer (California State LA) Mathematical Platonism and the Mind-Dependence of Mathematical Truth

Winter Semester 2024/2025

  • 20. November: Davide Romano (Université Grenoble-Alps) Quantum Origin of Time's Arrow
  • 27. November: Boris Demarest (Gent) Nominalism in Early Modern Physics
  • 04. Dezember: Claudio Calosi (Venice) Presence and Delegation
  • 18. Dezember: Mario Hubert (München) Superluminal Causation in Quantum Mechanics
  • 15. Januar: Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) From Spacetime in Physics to Space and Time in Human Experience

Workshops

Winter Semester 2025/2026

  • 7. - 9. Januar The Ontology of Fields (Dr. Mario Hubert)

Sommer Semester 2025

  • 16.-17. April Fundamentality in Phsics and Metaphysics (Prof. Dr. Alyssa Ney)
  • 11.-12. Juli It from Bit - A workshop on the Metaphysics of John Archibald Wheeler (Prof. Dr. Alyssa Ney)

Andere Veranstaltungen

Winter Semester 2025/2026

  • 22. Januar 100 Years of the Schrödinger Equation
    An interdisciplinary panel discussion on the meaning of the wave function
    Časlav Brukner (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vienna)
    Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching)
    Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)
    Alyssa Ney (LMU Munich, Chair of Metaphysics)

Sommer Semester 2025

  • 6. Juni The Influence of Kant on Modern Physics
    Dr. Michael Cuffaro (MCMP)