09/06/06 - 11/06/06 Second international conference on the ontology of spacetime, Concordia University, Montreal: 09/06/06 Joy Christian: Heraclitean generalization of special relativity / Ludwik Kostro: Ultrareferential physical spacetime conceived as a new ether; the opinion of Albert Einstein / 10/06/06: John Earman: Why branching spacetime is a bad idea / Robert DiSalle: Spacetime onology after general relativity; metaphysics vs methodological legacies / Christopher Smeenk: Gravitational energy & substantivalism / Ken Peacock: Quantum mechanics and the open future / 11/06/06: Jonathan Bain: Condensed matter physics and the nature of spacetime / Tomasz Bigaj: EPR, counterfactuals & relation between quantum mechanics & relativity / Ioan Muntean: Unification and explanation in Kaluza-Klein formalism / Andrew Wayne: Spacetime relationalism & classical fields / Bradford Skow: Extrinsic temporal metries / Vincent Lam: Singular structure & the nature of spacetime Add to clipboard MW0002660 · Item · 2006-06-09 Part of Michael Wright Collection Christian, Joy
27/07/07 - 29/07/07 CSHPM/BSHM 4th joint meeting, Concordia University, Montreal: 27/07/07 MW microphone test / MW microphone test #2 / Josipa G Petrunic: In the wake of empiricism; Bristish empirical traditions in mathematical thought (1860-1880) & Felix Klein's erlanger program as a local (contrastive) response to them; contrastive case studies 19th Century mathematics styles / Dirk Schlim: The creative role of axiomatics in the discovery (and development) of lattice theory; some connections with challenges to the classical model of science / Elaine Landry: How to be a structuralist all the way down; algebraic structuralism as a response to some recent criticisms of category-theoretic structuralism (Hellman & Shapiro) / Jean-Pierre Marquis: The early history of categorical logic in Montreal (incomplete) / Bart Van Kerkove: The historicity of mathematics: The case of computer proof / Makmiller Pedroso: Realism & mathematical truth / Jason Douma: Philosophical intelligences: A potential model for the teach... Add to clipboard MW0002580 · Item · 2007-07-27 Part of Michael Wright Collection Petrunic