Philosophy and History of Physics Reading Group | HPS

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This reading group meets on Tuesdays, 4.30pm to 6pm in the Board Room. Organised by Jeremy Butterfield, Matt Farr and Bryan Roberts.

Lent Term 2020

Our theme this term is: spacetime.

21 January

We will discuss David Malament, 'Causal theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity', Nous 1977.

28 January

We will discuss (i) a philosophical introduction to representation theorems for geometry and spacetime, and then (ii) a paper by Bryan Roberts which generalizes Malament's 1977 theorem.