On Reductionism and Functionalism about Space and Time – Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)

When:
September 9, 2019 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
2019-09-09T16:30:00-04:00
2019-09-09T18:30:00-04:00
Where:
CUNY Grad Center, rm 5307
365 5th Ave
New York, NY 10016
USA
Cost:
Free

Various programmes and results in the philosophy/foundations of spacetime theories illustrate themes from reductionism and functionalism in general philosophy of science. I will focus on some programmes and results about how the physics of matter contributes to determining, or even determines, or even explains, chrono-geometry. I hope to say something about most of the following examples: in the philosophical literature, Robb (1914), and Mundy (1983); and in the physics literature: Barbour and Bertotti (1982); Hojman, Kuchar and Teitelboim (1976); Dull, Schuller et al. (2012, 2018); and Gomes & Shyam (2016).

 

Presented by Metro Area Philosophers of Science

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Armin Schulz (University of Kansas)
Details: 4:30-6:30pm Wednesday Oct 9; 3rd floor seminar room, 5 Washington Place (NYU).

Title: TBD.

Abstract: TBD.

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Christopher Weaver (University of Illinois)
Details: 4:30-6:30pm Wednesday Nov 13; 3rd floor seminar room, 5 Washington Place (NYU).

Title: TBD.

Abstract: TBD.

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