The recording of the UPAC colloquium speaker session on the 22nd of October where Karim Thébault (University of Bristol) gave a talk on Canonical General Relativity has just been uploaded!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zRK_ygp5gw&feature=youtu.be
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The next UPAC colloquium will be held tomorrow (05 Nov 2024, 16h00-17h00), where we will be discussing Craig W. Fox's paper "Does the present overdetermine the past?"
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41041-3_5
For more information visit:
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
Does the Present Overdetermine the Past?
In an influential series of papers, Cleland (2001, 2002, 2011) argued that historical natural scientists employ a distinctive methodology—which exploits Lewis (1979)s asymmetry of over determination—that is capable of putting knowledge of the deep past on...
For the next UPAC colloquium speaker session that will be held today (22 Oct 2024, 15h30-17h00), we will be hosting Karim Thébault (University of Bristol) who will be giving a talk on Canonical General Relativity. For more information, please visit:
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
We are excited to announce that two of the recordings of the 2024 UPAC workshop on the Philosophy of Cosmic Inflation are now live on the UPAC YouTube channel! Check them out, and stay tuned for other colloquia coming soon!
The first recording features Richard Dawid from the University of Stockholm discussing the question "How testable is cosmic inflation?".
https://youtu.be/1UIjm0WzXXw
The second recording features Daan Meerburg from the University of Groningen speaking about "Testing Inflation".
https://youtu.be/ehIV695pU60
Philosophy of Inflation Workshop - How testable is cosmic inflation?
Another UPAC colloquium recording has been published on the UPAC YouTube channel! Kian Salimkhani (University of Cologne) talks about the Non-Fundamentality of Spacetime!
UPAC Colloquium April - The Non-Fundamentality of Spacetime
For the next UPAC colloquium speaker session that will be held tomorrow (17 Sept 2024, 15h30-17h00), we will be hosting Thomas Hertog (KU Leuven) who will be giving a talk on the Origin of Time. For more information, please visit:
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
The third UPAC colloquium speaker for 2024 was Silvia de Bianchi, from the State University of Milan. The talk was titled “Analogical Arguments and Emergent Gravity: The “Double-Gap” Problem”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbYuCDla_2o&t
In May, Juliusz Doboszewski from the University of Bonn & the Black Hole Initiative Harvard gave a talk on “Speculative eliminative reasoning: on primordial black holes and remnants” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDaDz_U9Dc&t
The final speaker of the year was Tushar Menon from the Australian Catholic University who provided us with the “The Analytic Pragmatist Guide to Theory Interpretation”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_oUN3FUGM
UPAC Colloquium March - Analogical Arguments and Emergent Gravity: The “Double-Gap” Problem
More UPAC colloquium recordings have been published on the UPAC YouTube channel! You can now watch almost all of the speaker colloquia from the previous academic year. Stay tuned for the announcements about this year’s colloquia. https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
The first UPAC colloquium speaker session of 2024 featured Manus Visser from the University of Cambridge, who talked about “The Holographic Dual of Black Hole Thermodynamics”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWRF4F3cfo
In February the UPAC group hosted Vera Matarese, from the University of Perugia, who gave a talk “On the Epistemic Status of Atmospheric Retrieval Models in Exoplanetary Science”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVwrNSBXN0
We are excited to announce that the first UPAC colloquium recordings are now live on the UPAC YouTube channel! Check them out and stay tuned for more colloquia coming soon!
The first-ever speaker of the UPAC colloquium was Simon Allzén from Stockholm University and the University of Amsterdam. The talk was titled "Whig History as Justification of Scientificality: The Case of Dark Matter".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7K7EmfuZzU
The second UPAC colloquium speaker session featured
Jonas Enander from the University of Amsterdam discussing the question"Is the Universe a Black Hole?".
UPAC Colloquium October - Whig History as Justification of Scientificality: The Case of Dark Matter
Tushar Menon will be our final speaker of the academic year (4 June 2024, 15:30 CEST), with a talk on dark matter realism: "The inferentialist guide to theory interpretation".
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium