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 […]
