Podcasts by MCMP – Philosophy of Physics
Mathematical Philosophy - the application of logical and mathematical methods in philosophy - is about to experience a tremendous boom in various areas of philosophy. At the new Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, which is funded mostly by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, philosophical research will be carried out mathematically, that is, by means of methods that are very close to those used by the scientists.
The purpose of doing philosophy in this way is not to reduce philosophy to mathematics or to natural science in any sense; rather mathematics is applied in order to derive philosophical conclusions from philosophical assumptions, just as in physics mathematical methods are used to derive physical predictions from physical laws.
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Shape Dynamics from 2019-04-18T16:30:49
Tim A. Koslowski (New Brunswick) gives a talk at the Mini-Workshop on the Foundations of Shape Dynamics (23 June, 2014) titled "Shape Dynamics". Abstract: Based on the introduction to shape dynamic...
ListenBohmian Mechanics, speakable quantum physics from 2019-04-18T14:33:07
Detlef Dürr (LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (23 January, 2013) titled "Bohmian Mechanics, speakable quantum physics". Abstract: I introduce Bohmian Mechanics, which is a theory of particl...
ListenQuantisation as a guide to ontic structure from 2019-04-18T14:12:26
Karim Thébault (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (9 January, 2013) titled "Quantisation as a guide to ontic structure". Abstract: The ontic structural realist stance is motivated by a ...
ListenGravity. An exercise in quantization from 2019-04-18T14:04:51
Igor Khavkine (Utrecht) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "Gravity. An exercise in quantization". Abstract: The quantization of General...
ListenAgainst Dogma: Locality, Conditionalisation, and Collapse in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics from 2019-04-18T13:42:41
Thomas Pashby (Pittsburgh) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (28 May, 2014) titled "Against Dogma: Locality, Conditionalisation, and Collapse in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics". Abstract: I argue...
ListenAn Introduction to Shape Dynamics: a New Perspective on Quantum Gravity from 2019-04-18T13:40:57
Sean Gryb (Nijmegen) gives a talk at the Mini-Workshop on the Foundations of Shape Dynamics (23 June, 2014) titled "An Introduction to Shape Dynamics: a New Perspective on Quantum Gravity". Abstrac...
ListenHow to Bite the Bullet of Quidditism - Why a Standard Argument against Categoricalism in Physics Fails from 2019-04-18T13:38:26
Andreas Barrels (Bonn) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (7 May, 2014) titled "How to Bite the Bullet of Quidditism - Why a Standard Argument against Categoricalism in Physics Fails". Abstract: C...
ListenBest Possible Worlds and Random Walks: The Principle of Least Action as a Thought Experiment from 2018-04-11T15:12:51
Michael Stöltzner (South Carolina) gives a talk at the Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories (14 December, 2014) titled "Best Possible Worlds and Random ...
ListenPhysics without Fundamental Time from 2015-07-10T02:00
Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "Physics without Fundamental Time". Abstract: Rivers of ink have flown on th...
ListenThe Intrinsic Hamilton-Jacobi Dynamics of General Relativity and its Implications for the Semi-Classical Emergence of Time from 2015-07-09T09:00
Donald Salisbury (Austin) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "The Intrinsic Hamilton-Jacobi Dynamics of General Relativity and its Implicatio...
ListenDiscrete Time in Quantum Gravity from 2015-07-09T08:00
Francesca Vidotto (Radboud) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "Discrete Time in Quantum Gravity". Abstract: We study the quantization of geo...
ListenTimeless Quantum Mechanics in Configuration Space: an Outsider View from 2015-07-09T07:00
Henrique Gomes (Perimeter Institute) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "Timeless Quantum Mechanics in Configuration Space: an Outsider View"...
ListenIn Favour of a Schrödinger Evolution of the Universe from 2015-07-09T06:00
Sean Gryb (Radboud) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "In Favour of a Schrödinger Evolution of the Universe". Abstract: In the canonical for...
ListenThe Consistent Boundary Formulation from 2015-07-09T05:00
Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "The Consistent Boundary Formulation". Abstract: I will introduce th...
ListenConstraints, Dirac Observables and Chaos from 2015-07-09T04:00
Philipp Hoehn (Perimeter Institute) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "Constraints, Dirac Observables and Chaos". Abstract: I will discuss f...
ListenChanging Observables in Canonical General Relativity from Hamiltonian-Lagrangian Equivalence from 2015-07-09T03:00
J. Brian Pitts (Cambridge) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "Changing Observables in Canonical General Relativity from Hamiltonian-Lagrangi...
ListenFirst-Class Constraints, Gauge, and the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation from 2015-07-09T02:00
Oliver Pooley (Oxford) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "First-Class Constraints, Gauge, and the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation". Abstract: Recent...
ListenThe Gravitational Arrow of Time from 2015-07-09T01:00
Tim A. Koslowski (Brunswick) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "The Gravitational Arrow of Time". Abstract: The arrow of time appears to alw...
ListenFacets of Time in Physics from 2015-07-09T00:00
Kurt Sundermeyer (FU Berlin/MPIWG) gives a talk at the Workshop on the Problem of Time in Perspective (3-4 July, 2015) titled "Facets of Time in Physics". Abstract: In an attempt to understand slog...
ListenA Categorial Approach to Relativistic Locality from 2015-05-28T11:00
Miklós Rédei (LSE) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (13 May, 2015) titled "A Categorial Approach to Relativistic Locality". Abstract: In the talk relativistic locality of a probabilistic physica...
ListenBayesian Perspectives on the Higgs Search from 2015-05-11T05:03:51
Richard Dawid (MCMP) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (29 April, 2015) titled "Bayesian Perspectives on the Higgs Search". Abstract: The history of the Higgs discovery is characterized by a spec...
ListenQBism and the Born rule from 2015-02-10T09:22:21
Rüdiger Schack (Royal Holloway London) gives a talk at the Workshop on Quantum Computation, Quantum Information, and the Exact Sciences (30-31 January, 2015) titled "QBism and the Born rule". Abstr...
ListenQuantum Information: Conceptual and Ontological Aspects from 2015-02-10T08:21:21
Chris Timpson (Brasenose College, Oxford) gives a talk at the Workshop on Quantum Computation, Quantum Information, and the Exact Sciences (30-31 January, 2015) titled "Quantum Information: Concept...
ListenCorpuscular Structure of Geometry from 2015-02-10T00:24:42
Gia Dvali (LMU-MPI&NYU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (14 January, 2015) titled "Corpuscular structure of geometry". Abstract: We review some recent ideas on quantum-corpuscular structure of ...
ListenA New Prescription for the Quantization of Refoliation Invariant Field Theories from 2014-12-31T06:43
Karim Thebault (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories (14 December, 2014) titled "A New Prescription for the Quantization o...
ListenUnitary Inequivalence in Classical Systems from 2014-12-31T05:39:49
Ben Feintzeig (UC Irvine) gives a talk at the Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories (14 December, 2014) titled "Unitary Inequivalence in Classical System...
ListenRelativistic Quantum Particles the Feynman Way from 2014-12-31T04:36:31
Brian Padden (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories (14 December, 2014) titled "Relativistic Quantum Particles the Feynman ...
ListenClassical Field Theory and Intertheoretic Reduction from 2014-12-31T03:34:34
Samuel Fletcher (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories (14 December, 2014) titled "Classical Field Theory and Intertheoreti...
ListenOn Fiber Bundle and Holonomy Interpretations of Yang-Mills Theories from 2014-12-31T02:33:09
Sarita Rosenstock (UC Irvine) gives a talk at the Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories (14 December, 2014) titled "On Fiber Bundle and Holonomy Interpre...
ListenFiber Bundles, Yang-Mills Theory, and General Relativity from 2014-12-31T01:28:39
James Weatherall (UC Irvine) gives a talk at the Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories (14 December) titled "Fiber Bundles, Yang-Mills Theory, and Genera...
ListenA Trope Bundle Interpretation of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory from 2014-12-31T00:05:18
Meinard Kuhlmann (Mainz) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (10 December, 2014) titled "A Trope Bundle Interpretation of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory". Abstract: Algebraic quantum field theory (...
ListenThe Primitive Ontology of Quantum Physics from 2014-12-18T11:01:37
Michael Esfeld (Lausanne) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (26 November, 2014) titled "The Primitive Ontology of Quantum Physics". Abstract: In this talk, I will first recall the arguments why w...
ListenQBism: A Subjective Way to Take Ontic Indeterminism Seriously from 2014-12-18T08:54:29
Christopher Fuchs (MPQ Garching) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (20 November, 2014) titled "QBism: A Subjective Way to Take Ontic Indeterminism Seriously". Abstract: The term QBism, invented i...
ListenReduction and the Ontology of Physical Theories from 2014-10-16T01:06:46
Tim Maudlin (NYU) meets Sebastian Lutz (MCMP/LMU) in a joint session on "Reduction and the Ontology of Physical Theories" at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Sept, 2014, German House, New ...
ListenNew Work on the Problem of Time from 2014-02-21T11:43:28
Oliver Pooley (Oxford) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (22 January, 2014) titled "New Work on the Problem of Time". Abstract: A central aspect of the "Problem of Time" in canonical general rela...
ListenThe Bohmian challenge from 2014-02-18T04:03:08
Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt (Osnabrück) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (27 November, 2013) titled "The Bohmian challenge". Abstract: The Bohmian extension of quantum theory claims to solve the measur...
ListenAre Classical Black Holes Hot or Cold? from 2014-02-13T01:19:36
Erik Curiel (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (18 December, 2013) titled "Are Classical Black Holes Hot or Cold?". Abstract: In the early 1970s it is was realized that there is a strik...
ListenEmergent spacetime in condensed matter analogues of general relativity from 2014-01-23T02:49:08
Karen Crowther (Sydney) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (13 November, 2013) titled "Emergent spacetime in condensed matter analogues of general relativity". Abstract: It has been claimed, based...
ListenThings happen, they just happen in a partial order from 2013-11-06T22:17:51
Fay Dowker (Imperial College London) gives a talk at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July, 2013) titled "Things happen, they just happen in a partial order". A...
ListenFrom the microscopic to the macroscopic world from 2013-11-06T21:16:57
Jean Bricmont (Université catholique de Louvain) gives a talk at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July, 2013) titled "From the microscopic to the macroscopic wo...
ListenA Dynamical Origin of the Arrow of Time from 2013-11-06T21:05:10
Julian Barbour (Oxford) gives an evening lecture at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July, 2013) titled "A Dynamical Origin of the Arrow of Time".
ListenOn Causal Explanations of Quantum Correlations from 2013-11-06T15:30:47
Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) gives a talk at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July, 2013) titled "On Causal Explanations of Quantum Correlations". Abst...
ListenInertia and the Conformal-Projective Decomposition for Nordström-Einstein-Fokker, Massive Scalar, Einstein, and Massive Spin 2 Gravities from 2013-11-06T15:27:46
J. Brian Pitts (Cambridge) gives a talk in the colloquium "On the Split Between Gravity and Inertia in Different Spacetime Theories" at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physic...
ListenThe Gravity-Inertia split in Newtonian and Relativistic Contexts from 2013-11-06T15:26:23
Eleanor Knox (London) gives a talk in the colloquium "On the Split Between Gravity and Inertia in Different Spacetime Theories" at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29...
ListenAgainst the Gravity/Inertia split? from 2013-11-06T15:24:07
Dennis Lehmkuhl (Wuppertal) and Oliver Pooley (Oxford) give a talk in the colloquium "On the Split Between Gravity and Inertia in Different Spacetime Theories" at the 17th UK and European Meeting o...
ListenBarbour's Shape Space as an Ontology for Gravity from 2013-11-06T15:13:42
Sean Gryb (Radboud) gives a talk in the colloquium "Journeys in Platonia: Celebrating 50 Years Since The End of Time" at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July, ...
ListenKendall’s Shape Statistics as a Classical Realization of Barbour-type Timeless Records Theory Approach to Quantum Gravity from 2013-11-06T15:11:33
Edward Anderson (Paris Diderot and Cambridge) gives a talk in the colloquium "Journeys in Platonia: Celebrating 50 Years Since The End of Time" at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundation...
ListenLeibniz, Mach and Barbour from 2013-11-06T15:08:58
Harvey Brown (Oxford) gives a talk in the colloquium "Journeys in Platonia: Celebrating 50 Years Since The End of Time" at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July...
ListenThe Neglect of Fluctuations in the Thermodynamics of Computation from 2013-11-06T14:21:14
John D. Norton (Pittsburgh) gives a talk at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July, 2013) titled "The Neglect of Fluctuations in the Thermodynamics of Computatio...
ListenThe (philosophy of the) Higgs from 2013-11-04T07:24:56
Michael Krämer (RWTH Aachen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (23 October, 2013) titled "The (philosophy of the) Higgs". Abstract: I will review the physics of the Large hadron Collider LHC, inc...
ListenInertial Motion, Explanation, and the Foundations of Classical Spacetime Theories from 2013-11-04T07:24:44
James Owen Weatherall (California) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (19 July, 2013) titled "Inertial Motion, Explanation, and the Foundations of Classical Spacetime Theories". Abstract: There is...
ListenFeynman Diagrams as Models from 2013-11-03T13:08:29
Michael Stöltzner (South Carolina) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (17 July, 2013) titled "Feynman Diagrams as Models". Abstract: While Feynman considered his diagrams as pictorial representati...
ListenTime and space in causal set theory from 2013-10-10T19:01:22
Christian Wüthrich (San Diego) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "Time and space in causal set theory". Abstract: Causal set theory off...
ListenComment on Dean Rickles' "Dualities and the Physical Content of Theories" from 2013-10-09T12:07:34
Ioan Muntean (Fort Wayne) comments on Dean Rickles' "Dualities and the Physical Content of Theories" at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013).
ListenDualities and the Physical Content of Theories from 2013-10-09T12:07:15
Dean Rickles (Sydney) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "Dualities and Physical Content". Abstract: A duality expresses a reltionship b...
ListenComment on Richard Dawid's "String Theory and Scientific Realism" from 2013-10-09T12:06:49
Radin Dardashti (MCMP/LMU) comments on Richard Dawid's "String Theory and Scientific Realism" at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013).
ListenString Theory and Scientific Realism from 2013-10-09T12:06:20
Richard Dawid (Vienna) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "String Theory and Scientific Realism". Abstract: T-duality, which is an impor...
ListenComment on Daniele Oriti's "Dissappearance and Emergence of Space and Time in Quantum Gravity" from 2013-10-09T12:05:56
Karen Crowther (Sydney) comments on Daniele Oriti's "Dissappearance and Emergence of Space and Time in Quantum Gravity" at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013).
ListenDisappearance and Emergence of Space and Time in Quantum Gravity from 2013-10-09T12:05:30
Daniele Oriti (Potsdam) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "Disappearance and Emergence of Space and Time in Quantum Gravity". Abstract:...
ListenTime Remains from 2013-10-09T12:05:06
Karim Thébault (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "Time Remains". Abstract: Even classically, it is not entirely clear how on...
ListenReal Change Happens in Hamiltonian General Relativity; Just Ask the Lagrangian (about Time-like Killing Vectors, First-Class Constraints and Observables) from 2013-10-09T12:04:40
J. Brian Pitts (Cambridge) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "Real Change Happens in Hamiltonian General Relativity; Just Ask the Lagra...
ListenEinstein's approach to Quantum Gravity from 2013-10-09T12:04:12
Dennis Lehmkuhl (Wuppertal) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "Einstein's approach to Quantum Gravity". Abstract: It is common knowledg...
ListenThe "Shut up and Calculate" Approach to Quantum Gravity from 2013-10-09T12:02:58
Robert Helling (LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "The "Shut up and Calculate" Approach to Quantum Gravity". Abstract: Quantum mec...
ListenQuantum Geometrodynamics: whence, whither? from 2013-10-09T12:01:02
Claus Kiefer (Cologne) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013) titled "Quantum Geometrodynamics: whence, whither?". Abstract: Quantum geometrodynami...
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