Physics Old and New: Historical and Critical Perspectives on Physics and the Philosophy of Nature
Workshop in Honor of Katherine Brading
March 24, 2017
160 Mendoza
Lecture 8:00am-3:00pm
with Mary Domsky (University of New Mexico), George Smith (Tufts), Alison Petermen (Rochester), Nick Huggett (University of Chicago), David John Baker (University of Michigan), and Tom Pashby (University of Chicago)
Physics Old and New: Historical and Critical Perspectives of Physics and the Philosophy of Nature
Workshop in Honor of Katherine Brading
3.24.17
160 Mendoza Hall
8:00-8:30 Continental breakfast –Mendoza Hall Atrium
8:30-8:45 Don Howard: Welcome
8:45-9:30 Mary Domski: Descarte’s Principles: The case of the Missing Mathematics
9:30-9:45 coffee break –Mendoza Hall Atrium
9:45-10:30 Alison Peterman: Margaret Cavendish and the Problem of Bodies
10:30-10:45 coffee break –Mendoza Hall Atrium
10:45-11:30 George Smith: The Subsequent Fate of Two of Gaileo’s “True” Principles
11:30- Anjan Chakravartty: Presentation to Katherine
Lunch -Mendoza Hall Atrium
12:15-1:00 Nick Huggett: Oriti’s ‘Geometrogenesis’ and Other Births of the Universe
1:00-1:45 David Baker: Interpreting Supersymmetry
1:45-2:00 break –Mendoza Hall Atrium
2:00-2:45 Tom Pashby: How (best) to be a Leibnizian about Spacetime
3:00-5:00 Philosophy Department Colloquium: Alison Simmons: Descartes and the modern mind -129 DBRT
5:00 Reception