On behalf of Caspar Jacobs:
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The Oxford Philosophy of Physics Graduate Conference
6-7th February 2019, Exeter College, Oxford
Keynote Speaker: Eleanor Knox (KCL)
The submission deadline for papers is 9th December.
We welcome submissions in all areas of philosophy of physics and philosophy of science, particularly from those belonging to underrepresented groups.
All current graduate students (except students enrolled at Oxford at the time of the conference) working on philosophy of physics or philosophy of science are welcome to submit.
The paper can be up to 4000 words, including titles and footnotes, suitable for a 30 minute presentation. Please add an abstract of about 250 words, and prepare it for blind review by removing any information identifying the author or institutional affiliation.
We will notify authors of the decision regarding their paper by the start of January. For successful applications we will cover the cost of registration and the conference lunch and dinner, but unfortunately we cannot cover the costs of travel and accommodation. We will also have some hardship bursaries available.
Please find more information at the conference website: https://philphysgradconference.com/ <https://philphysgradconference.com/submit-a-paper/>.
If you have any further questions, please contact the conference organisers, Lia den Daas, Caspar Jacobs, Natasha Oughton, and Lydia Drabkin-Reiter, at philphysgradconf(a)philosophy.ox.ac.uk <mailto:philphysgradconf@philosophy.ox.ac.uk>.
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Neil Dewar
Assistant Professor
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie
Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Ludwigstraße 31
80539 München, Deutschland
neildewar.wordpress.com <http://neildewar.wordpress.com/>
Sixth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime
Starting: 2020-05-11 to 2020-05-14
Location: Albena, Bulgaria
Website: http://www.minkowskiinstitute.org/conferences/2020/
Contact: 2020conference(a)minkowskiinstitute.org
The Scientific Organizing Committee invites papers from physicists, philosophers of physics and philosophers on any topic related to the nature of spacetime. As there will be no main theme of the sixth spacetime conference the Committee also invites proposals for special session topics. So far colleagues have suggested to include the following special sessions in the conference program (http://www.minkowskiinstitute.org/conferences/2020/call.html)
Nature of time - Flow of time; Becoming
Is spacetime a real four-dimensional entity or a mathematical concept?
Open Questions in Spacetime Physics
Relativistic Mass
Do Black Holes Actually Exist?
What is the difference between matter and geometry in general relativity, semi-classical gravity, and quantum gravity?
Depending on the number of colleagues participating in a special session, we plan to publish a volume with the talks presented at the session, which will include constructive criticism and the replies of the authors.
Contributed papers in the form of extended abstracts of between one and two pages should be emailed to 2020conference(a)minkowskiinstitute.org by January 31, 2020. Submissions will be reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent by February 17, 2020.
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Dennis Dieks (Utrecht University)
Mauro Dorato (University of Rome Three)
George F. R. Ellis (University of Cape Town)
Robert Geroch (University of Chicago)
Eleanor Knox (King's College London)
Vesselin Petkov (Minkowski Institute, Montreal)
Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)
Anguel Stefanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
James Owen Weatherall (University of California, Irvine)
Christian Wuethrich (University of Geneva)