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A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about American Misery 6:00 pm
A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about American Misery @ Cornelia Street Cafe
May 15 @ 6:00 pm
Are you miserable? If you are, you certainly have company. Misery has been on the rise in our society for some time, and the suffering is widespread: we, the people, feel lonely, neglected, forgotten, increasingly poor in health, in habit, and in purchasing power. A sense of helplessness shrouds the land. The manifestations of this are grim. Some take the agony of their despair and direct it outward, destroying the lives of concert attendees, night[...]
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Philosophy of Science Workshop
Philosophy of Science Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
May 16 all-day
J. Brian Pitts (Cambridge). 11am-12pm, Wednesday May 16, NYU philosophy department, room 302 (5 Washington Place, New York, NY). Title: TBD. Abstract: TBD. =============================================================== Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge). 1:30-3:30pm, Wednesday May 16, NYU philosophy department, room 302 (5 Washington Place, New York, NY). Title: On Dualities and Equivalences Between Physical Theories. Abstract: My main aim is to make a remark about the relation between (i) dualities between theories, as `duality’ is understood in physics and (ii)[...]
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Rutgers-Columbia Workshop on Metaphysics of Science: Quantum Field Theories*
Rutgers-Columbia Workshop on Metaphysics of Science: Quantum Field Theories* @ Rutgers Philosophy Dept
May 17 – May 18 all-day
Workshop Theme: What is the metaphysical status of quantum field theory (QFT)? How should field theories be interpreted? These questions have received considerable attention over the past few decades in various research projects in physics, mathematics, and philosophy, but there is no clear consensus on any of them. One finds a variety of different approaches to understanding QFTs — Algebraic QFT, conventional QFT, Bell-type Bohmian QFT, etc. — and different interpretations — realism, instrumentalism, and[...]
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A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about American Misery 8:00 pm
A Lawyer, A Poet, and A Philosopher walk into a bar to talk about American Misery @ Las Tapas Bar and Restaurant
May 24 @ 8:00 pm
Are you miserable? If you are, you certainly have company. Misery has been on the rise in our society for some time, and the suffering is widespread: we, the people, feel lonely, neglected, forgotten, increasingly poor in health, in habit, and in purchasing power. A sense of helplessness shrouds the land. The manifestations of this are grim. Some take the agony of their despair and direct it outward, destroying the lives of concert attendees, night[...]
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