Workshop: Assertion and Proof (WAP 2019)

Lecce, September 12-14, 2019 The theme of the workshop is the notion of assertion and its logical treatment. We aim to bring together scholars interested in the analysis of the logical notion of assertion and other related notions such as inference, proof, argument, meaning of logical constants that may receive an assertion-based interpretation. Following the […]

Workshop: Symmetry and Equivalence in Physics

Salzburg, September 3-4, 2019 This workshop, which is organized in connection with the ILMPS2019 conference, aims at exploring philosophical issues concerning the concepts of symmetry and equivalence that arise in our fundamental physical theories. The keynote speakers are Adam Caulton (Oxford), Ben Feintzeig (Washington), Doreen Fraser (Waterloo), Karen Crowther (Geneve), Giovanni Valente (Milan), and David […]

Workshop: Are Science and Technology Gendered? Insights from Philosophy and Sociology

March 28, 2019 – 15:30. Politecnico di Milano, Auditorium, Via Pascoli 53. This workshop has the aim to offer to a large audience of Politecnico di Milano’s scholars an in-depth and accessible understanding of the differences between the professional trajectories of men and women in science and technology, by detailing some of the main cultural, […]

Workshop: Interpreting Quantum Mechanics: Old and New Philosophical Problems

March 11, 2019 – 10:15. Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Consiglio, VII floor, Via Bonardi 7 Quantum Mechanics is our most successful theory to account for the microscopic world. Yet, it is still beset with outstanding interpretational questions that have intrigued physicists, mathematicians and philosophers for almost a century. The present workshop aims […]

Workshop: Etica per la Tecnologia: Come Affrontare Consapevolmente le Sfide di Tutti i Giorni

March 4, 2019, 10:30. Politecnico di Milano, Aula Magna, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32. This workshop purports to discuss and bring to public attention important themes related to the Politecnico di Milano’s project of developing the field of ethics for technology. Invited speakers are Helga Nowotny (Vienna), Mariarosa Taddeo (Oxford) and Giuseppe Testa (Milan). For […]

Workshop: Philosophy and Technologies of Simulation

November 22-23, 2018. Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Aula Seminario, Via Ponzio 34/5 This research workshop is jointly organized by the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Politecnico di Milano and Middlesex University London. This workshop follows the successful organization of the First Summer School on Computer Simulation Methods, held in Stuttgart […]

Conference: Analogical Reasoning in Science and Mathematics, Munich

October 26-28, 2018 Analogy is a powerful, yet controversial, tool of scientific reasoning. Indeed, many achievements in the history of science and mathematics have been driven by analogical inferences. Moreover, one can formulate conjectures about domains into which one does not have empirical access just based on analogy with other known domains. Nonetheless, from a […]

Workshop: Time in Physics, Salzburg

September 4-5, 2018 This workshop, which is organized in connection with the IMPS2018 conference, aims at exploring philosophical issues concerning the concept of time that arise in our fundamental physical theories. The keynote speakers are Harvey Brown (Oxford), Patricia Palacios (Salzburg), Bryan Roberts (London), Jos Uffink (Minnesota), Francesca Vidotto (Bilbao) and Christian Wuthrich (Geneve). For […]