Dear colleagues:
The Philosophy and History of Physics Reading Group will meet in the Board
Room (up to first floor, turn left, in the history and philosophy of
science department, Free School Lane), on Tuesdays from 4.00 till 6.00.
STARTS next Tuesday 11 October.
The theme for the term is the history and philosophy of spacetime
theories, especially relativity.
This is chosen partly with a view to the one-day conference in Trinity
College on Saturday 12 November, led by the eminent philosopher of
spacetime, Jim Weatherall (UC Irvine, visiting for a week): the two other
speakers are Adam Caulton (Oxford) and Eleanor Knox (Cambridge).
Readings, and REGISTER NOW!, at:
https://cambridgemasterclass.wordpress.com
The main book on Tuesdays will be the Cambridge Companion to Einstein
(CUP), ed. M Janssen and C Lehner.
There is University-wide access to the ebook version, so Reading Group
members should be able to read it online directly from here:
http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/companions/ebook.jsf?bid=CCO9781139024525
The proposed readings for the first few dates are as follows. We will of
course adjust in the light of peopleâs interests, especially in later
weeks.
11 Oct: Chapters by D. Howard and J. Norton: on Einsteinâs philosophy of
science, and on special relativity, respectively.
18 Oct: Chapter by Janssen: on Einsteinâs quest for general relativity.
25 Oct: Oliver Pooley, Substantivalist and relationist approaches to
spacetime, in R. Batterman ed, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of
Physics (OUP, 2013), and available on the Pittsburgh philosophy of science
archive at:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9055/
1 Nov: Chapters by Ryckman and Friedman (both on post-Kantian themes).
NB: the webpage for this reading group is:
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/physics
Best wishes,
Richard Staley and Jeremy Butterfield
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Jeremy Butterfield:
Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ: Tel: 07557-668413 (mobile)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield
Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198
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