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The Mystery of Our Mathematical Universe 7:00 pm
The Mystery of Our Mathematical Universe @ The New York Academy of Sciences
Oct 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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From basic arithmetic to the calculation of rocket trajectories, mathematics provides an elegant means of systematically understanding and quantifying the world around us. Beyond its computational functions, however, mathematics serves an even more vital purpose: It illuminates the most fundamental knowledge of our universe, furnishing the tools that classical physics, quantum mechanics, and astronomy use to develop and build upon their findings. But why should mathematics be so effective in explaining our universe, as first noted[...]
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Jill North, The Direction of Time 3:00 pm
Jill North, The Direction of Time @ Rutgers Philosophy Dept
Oct 11 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Direction of Time Location Rutgers Philosophy Department, 106 Somerset St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family, Yale Weiss 4:15 pm
Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family, Yale Weiss @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 15 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
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n his seminal work Counterfactuals, David Lewis presents a family of systems of conditional logic—his V-family—which includes both his preferred logic of counterfactuals (VC/C1) and Stalnaker’s conditional logic (VCS/C2). Graham Priest posed the problem of finding systems of (labeled) tableaux for logics from Lewis’s V-family in his Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2008, p. 93). In this talk, I present a solution to this problem: sound and complete (labeled) tableaux for Lewis’s V-logics. Errors and shortcomings in recent work on this problem[...]
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Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time 4:00 pm
Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time @ NYU Professional Studies, room 125
Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Loewer distinguishes two approaches to laws and time: Humean accounts, which deny primitive modality and explain temporal asymmetries in scientific terms, and non-Humean accounts that take temporal asymmetry and modality to be metaphysically fundamental. I’ll argue that Loewer neglects an important third approach: deny metaphysical claims about fundamentality, and explain temporal asymmetries as well as the function of modal entities in scientific terms. This pragmatist approach provides a clear ontology to science, and, and unlike[...]
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