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 […]
Conference: Irvine-London-Munich-PoliMi-Salzburg Conference in Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
Salzburg, September 2-3, 2019 Over the past decades, important contributions to the mathematical and conceptual foundations of physical theories have been made within the philosophical community. Conversely, critical analysis of the formal structures of our best physical theories inform central philosophical concerns, and in some cases new theorems have been proven and new lines of […]
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: Putting Ethics into Work: Educating the Future Professionals in Engineering, Architecture and Design
November 8, 2018, 9.45. Politecnico di Milano, Auditorium, Via Pascoli 53.A roundtable discussion with IDEA League partners on the initiatives, strategies, and issues in educating ethically sensitive professionals. For more information click here: A3_Putting_Ethics_intoWork_def
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 […]
Conference: First Irvine-Munich-PoliMi-Salzburg Conference in Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
Salzburg, September 3-4, 2018 Over the past decades, important contributions to the mathematical and conceptual foundations of physical theories have been made within the philosophical community. Conversely, critical analysis of the formal structures of our best physical theories inform central philosophical concerns, and in some cases new theorems have been proven and new lines of […]
Workshop: Philosophy and Mathematics for Medicine
May 10, 2018, 14.30. Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Consiglio, VII floor, Via Bonardi 7. This one-day workshop, which is jointly organized by META and the PhD course “Communicating Scientific Research” at the Politecnico di Milano, surveys the issue of how theoretical and applied work in philosophy and mathematics, as well as the […]
Conference: Ethics for Technological Innovation
October 19, 2017, 9:30. Politecnico di Milano, Aula De Donato, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32. Research in science and technology does not usually address the ethical and social consequences of its own accomplishments. Such issues are rather entrusted to politics, philosophy, and social sciences. However, funding agencies and political institutions are increasingly requesting research to […]
