Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Physics

PROGRAM

10:00-11:15 Katherine Brading (University of Notre Dame): "Continuity, intelligibility and free will in Mme Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics"
11:30-12:45 Marij van Strien (Universiteit Gent): "Continuity in nature and in mathematics: Boltzmann and Poincaré"
14:15-15:30 Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University): "'Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics': a retrospective look"
15:45-17:00 Andreas Hüttemann (Universität zu Köln): "Reduction and reductive explanation"

Registration: please send an email to marijvanstrien@gmail.com, before September 10. Attendance is free.

This workshop is sponsored by FWO.