Organizers : Nadine de Courtenay,
Olivier Darrigol, Sara Franceschelli, Jan Lacki
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previous to 2008-2009, 2008-2009, 2009-2010,
2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013,
2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2016-2017,
2017-2018
PROGRAMME 2014–2015
The seminar is held from 5pm to 7pm in room 483A-Malevitch, Condorcet building, 4, rue Elsa Morante, University Paris Diderot (previously Paris 7). Map.
November 4
Jim Ritter
Contes de l’âge du jazz : l’unification de la physique à Princeton dans les années vingt.
November 18
Julian Barbour
Machian notions of time : Typical universes and the origin of the second law of thermodynamics.
November 25
Christiane Schmitz-Rigal
L’art du savoir : formations symboliques et dynamique de l’Apriori chez Cassirer.
December 2
Alfred Nordmann (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Grasping the infinite : Cassirer, Heidegger, Friedman and the quest for frictionless gliding.
December 9
Alexei Grinbaum (CEA-Saclay, SPEC/LARSIM)
Reconstruire la théorie quantique à partir des axiomes.
January 20
Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
The genesis of general relativity from philosophy to cosmology.
March 3
Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge)
Conflicting theories of the battery in the early nineteenth century.
March 10
Sean Johnston (University of Glasgow)
Amateur physics in America : Fostering technical hobbies, 1920-70.
March 24
Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universität Berlin)
The role of replicability of scientific experiments : a historical view.
