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01:25:57
James Read - "On Functional Freedom and Penrose’s Critiques of String Theory"
01:20:23
Saakshi Dulani - "Not the Measurement Problem's Problem: Black Hole Information & Schrödinger's Cat"
01:22:07
Luis Cortés Barbado - "On Playing Gods: The Fallacy of the Many-Worlds Interpretation"
01:22:22
David Builes - "Center Indifference and Skepticism"
01:12:15
Nicole Yunger Halpern - "Updates to the Second Law from Quantum Thermodynamics"
01:22:38
Jenann Ismael - "Laplace Meets Gödel"
01:50:26
Jake Khawaja - "Conquering Mount Everett: Branch-Counting Versus the Born Rule"
01:52:11
Craig Callender - "Insights into Quantum Time Reversal from the Classical Schrödinger Equation"
01:13:08
Helen Meskhidze - "Spacetimes with Torsion"
01:38:05
Ward Struyve - "Cosmic Acceleration as a Quantum Effect"
01:50:16
Guido Bacciagaluppi - "Measurement Dependence and Nonlocality"
01:53:31
Wayne Myrvold - “A Tale of Two Sciences, Both Called ‘Thermodynamics’ ”
01:56:36
Jacob Barandes - "A New Formulation of Quantum Theory"
01:49:13
Neil Dewar - "Intrinsic Quantum Mechanics"
01:46:08
Barry Loewer - "What Breathes Fire Into the Equations?"
01:51:15
Alison Fernandes - "Naturalism, Functionalism and the Metaphysics of Science"
01:54:13
Eddy Keming Chen - "The Simplicity of Physical Laws"
01:55:41
Isaac Wilhelm - "Centering the Everett Interpretation"
01:33:32
Grace Field - "On the Status of Quantum Tunnelling Time"
01:50:34
Clara Bradley - "Do First-Class Constraints Generate Gauge Transformations? A Geometric Perspective"
01:50:24
Eugene Chua - "The Time in Thermal Time"
01:51:02
Gabriele Carcassi - "The Common Logical Structure of Classical and Quantum Mechanics ...
01:48:27
Emily Adlam - "Laws of Nature as Constraints"
01:53:00
Alexander Meehan - "Bayesian Epistemology in a Quantum World"
01:52:25
David Baker - "Interpreting Toy Theories, With an Application to Symmetries"
01:03:55
Chip Sebens - "The Disappearance and Reappearance of Potential Energy in Electrodynamics"
59:17
Open Discussion with Lev Vaidman, Vanessa Seifert, Dave Chalmers, Kelvin McQueen
55:42
Lev Vaidman - "The Measurement Problem and its Solution in the Many-Worlds Interpretation"
53:05
David Chalmers, Kelvin McQueen - "Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function"
54:28
Vanessa Seifert - "The Measurement Problem as a Solution to Chemical Problems"
56:40
Jacques Pienaar - "Challenges to Defining a QBist Ontology"
58:10
Open Discussion with Christopher Fuchs, Jacques Pienaar, Chris Timpson on QBism and Quantum Theory
52:43
Chris Timpson - "QBism, Ontology, and Explanation"
56:23
Christopher Fuchs - "QBism and the Philosophers"
58:28
Open Discussion with Patricia Palacios, Elay Shech, Samuel Fletcher on Idealizations in Physics
54:23
Elay Shech - "Scientific Understanding, Modal Reasoning, and (Infinite) Idealization"
55:08
Patricia Palacios - "The Paradox of Infinite Limits: A Realist Response"
47:36
Samuel Fletcher - "Emergence, Explanation, and (Infinite) Idealization"
01:00:34
Open Discussion with Arianna Borrelli, Alex Franklin, Josh Rosaler on Naturalness & Renormalization
48:35
Joshua Rosaler - "Dogmas of Effective Field Theory: Fundamental Parameters, Scheme Dependence..."
55:25
Alexander Franklin - "Emergence, Autonomy, and Naturalness"
51:44
Arianna Borrelli - "An Argument for All Seasons: Naturalness and the Hierarchy Problem..."
01:02:32
Open Discussion with James Ladyman, Kerry McKenzie, Emily Adlam on Structural Realism
47:59
Emily Adlam - "Generalized Probabilistic Theories as Structural Realism"
54:51
Kerry McKenzie - "Structuralism as a Stance"
56:58
James Ladyman - "What is Ontic Structural Realism?"
56:56
Erik Curiel - "Singularities in Classical and Semi-Classical Gravity—Theory Failure or New Physics?"
57:53
Open Discussion with Erik Curiel, Mina Himwich, Lydia Patton on Black Holes
52:36
Lydia Patton - "Theories and Parameters: Building a Testing Framework for Black Hole Astronomy"
51:23
Mina Himwich - "Illuminating Black Holes"
58:47
Open Discussion with Snow Xueyin Zhang, Klaas Landsman, Markus MĂŒller on Probability/Undecidability
53:25
Markus MĂŒller - "The Room in the Elephant: From Undecidability as Undifferentiation to Physics ..."
59:47
Snow Xueyin Zhang - "The Borel-Kolmogorov Paradox as a Paradox for Physical Chance"
54:14
Klaas Landsman - "Determinism and Undecidability: You Can't Eat Your Cake and Have it Too"
01:01:05
Chris Mitsch - "Von Neumann's Axiomatic Completion of Quantum Mechanics"
55:15
Elise Crull - "Grete Hermann's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics"
59:30
Adam Becker - " 'Not Merely False, but Foolish': The History of Bell’s Two Theorems"
01:29:52
Eric Cavalcanti - "Implications of Wigner's Friend Paradox for Quantum Causality"
53:58
Matthew Leifer - "Block Universe Ontological Models: A Framework for Theories with Retrocausality"
53:50
Holly Andersen - "Causation : Information :: Work : Energy"