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What if reality doesn’t begin with particles or laws…
but with a single recursive act?
A loop.
A whisper of coherence collapsing into itself.
That collapse was the first cause.
#PhilosophyOfPhysics
A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself
#AeonMagazine #PhilosopyOfScience #PhysicsTheory #PhilosophyOfPhysics #ShutUpAndCalculate #ScienceTheories #ScientificTheory #Philosodon
New preprint: Functional Causation Beyond Spacetime: A Non-Metric Framework for Temporal Structure
Can causal direction emerge from internal asymmetries rather than geometry?
📄 PDF: https://philpapers.org/rec/LENFCB
🔍 #Causality #ModalLogic #StructuralRealism #PhilosophyOfPhysics
Philosopher of science working at the interface of causality, spacetime and quantum structure. I explore functional approaches to temporal ordering beyond metric geometry.
#PhilosophyOfPhysics #Causality #QuantumGravity #ScientificMetaphysics
👇 New issue from #PhilosophyofPhysics Journal: “Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics”. Featuring contributions from Lorenzo Lorenzetti. 🔗 Free to read and download via #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.31389/pop...
What are the fundamental (philosophical) assumptions that we make about our universe in order to have predictive model of the universe based on the phenomenological evidence?
I can think of two:
1) Spacetime inveriance
2) Locality
Perhaps also:
0) Objective reality exists
... here's to the next million! 🎉 #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #Monographs #AcademicWriting #EconomiaLACEA #LSEPPR #PhilosophyofPhysics
👇 New #OpenAccess journal article published in #PhilosophyofPhysics.
How Do Laws Produce the Future? by Charles T. Sebens
https://buff.ly/3EaQVkJ @lsephilosophy.bsky.social
How Do Laws Produce the Future...
#TimMaudlin - #Realism vs. #Antirealism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZI91ggRNo
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #Epistemology #Ontology #Perception #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Mind #PhilosophyOfMind #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Model #Models #Physics #PhilosophyOfPhysics #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#PedroFerreira - #Physics of #FineTuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQDVPzmDbJo
#PhilosophyOfPhysics #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Naturalness #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Higgs #Mass #CosmologicalConstant #FineStructureConstant #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#PhilosophyOfPhysics
#space
#EarlyModernPhilosophy
wrt the hiatus in
understanding the objectivity of physical space
by
on one side,
on the other - in a way all - say of
#Spinoza
#Leibniz
#duChatelet
#Kant
there's an imop particularly interesting preprint by Aaron Wells (uni paderborn) on Émilie du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects, viz.
https://philarchive.org/rec/
WELINA-2
Following the success of the first History and Philosophy of Physics Workshop in the Netherlands, the 2nd HPP-NL Workshop will take place in Utrecht on Monday the 8th of April 2024.
For more information visit https://www.uu.nl/en/research/history-and-philosophy-of-physics/events/2nd-hpp-nl-workshop
#History #philosophy #philosophyofphysics #philsci #historyofscience
Free book (until the 12th of March)! 'Philosophy of Physical Magnitudes', by Niels Martens
@EU_phil_cosmo. A new Element in Philosophy of Physics.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/philosophy-of-physical-magnitudes/FE00B0C58A2F9CEE52B6E4D9B59E5A1A
#philosophy #philosophyofphysics
During the UPAC colloquium work in progress session next Tuesday (28 Nov), we will be discussing the draft by Adrien De Sutter:
A Universe Lost to the World? On Speculative Origins; Or, Why the Universe may be running away from Cosmologists.
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
During the UPAC colloquium reading session next Tuesday (16:00-17:00), we will be discussing a paper by Milan M. Ćirković and Slobodan Perović: "Alternative explanations of the cosmic microwave background: A historical and an epistemological perspective".
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
Tomorrow, Jonas Enander will give a talk titled "Is the universe a Black Hole?". The talk is based on a chapter for an upcoming popular science book about black holes. For more information on how to attend on-site or online please visit https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
#hps #philosophy #blackholes #philosophyofphysics #sciencecommunication
Recently the Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy and Cosmology group launched their weekly colloquium.
Next Tuesday, this edition of the UPAC colloquium will feature Rodrigo Ochigame. His talk on "Visualizing Epistemic and Aesthetic Choices in Black Hole Imaging" will take us through the interactive digital project he is developing with his collaborators.
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
#DavidWallace - #Philosophy of #Physics and #Cosmology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsW_p7gbK-c&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#PhilosophyOfPhysics #PhilosophyOfCosmology #PhilosophyOfScience #QM #QuantumMechanics #SpaceTime #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #ScientificMethod #MeasurementProblem #MeasureProblem #Probability #Emergence #Observer #Consciousness #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
Cool, accessible article over at #Aeon about the strangeness and complexity of atoms and their components, and how the popular idea that atoms are mostly empty space is problematic.
(The author mentions an episode of Cosmos in which Sagan says that, and which I remember vividly despite the decades in between)
https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-atom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory
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