Colloquium

All talks are held on Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. in Ludwigstraße 31, Room 021.

Winter Semester 2025/2026

• 22 October: David Papineau (London) Causal Inference and the Metaphysics of Causation
• 29 October: Jonathan Shaheen (Uppsala) Places Incorporated: Cavendish on Body and Place as “but one thing”
• 03 December: Max Kistler (Paris) Integrating Constitution into Causal Models
• 14 January: Christian Wüthrich (Genf) Is spacetime contingent?
• 21 January: Časlav Brukner (Wien)
• 28 January: Carl Hoefer (Barcelona)
  

Summer Semester 2025

• 23 April: Benj Hellie (Toronto) Logic and the Mind-Body Problem
• 14 May: Kevin Coffey (NYU Abu Dhabi) Dimensions of Theorizing: Reformulation, Structure, and Symmetry
• 21 May: Valia Allori (Bergamo) Vagueness in Realist Quantum Theories
• 04 June: 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
• 4 December: Claudio Calosi (Venice) Presence and Delegation
• 18 December: Mario Hubert (München) Superluminal Causation in Quantum Mechanics
• 15 January: Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) From Spacetime in Physics to Space and Time in Human Experience