…Montréal! A few facts of interest: Montréal is the second largest city in Canada. It’s slightly smaller than Phoenix, AZ and slightly larger than Marseille, Fr. Nearly 2 out of 3 people in the city are native French speakers. The weather in November is usually 28° to 50° F (-2° to 13° C) and rainy. The conference is at the Hyatt Regency in Old Montréal, which dates back to the 17th century. The nearby hill, called “Mont Royal” (hence Montréal) wa…
Read more…m the description and explanation of empirical fact, as is the language of prescription and justification. Although Sellars was concerned with the philosophy of mind, there is something important here for philosophers of physics to learn as well. A major activity of physics is the collection of empirical facts. Another is the prediction and justification of these facts. But the activity of investigating meaning is a distinct activity altogether. T…
Read more…dge) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Oxford University Press Canadian Journal of Philosophy University of Calgary Press Dialectica Wiley-Blackwell Erkenntnis Springer Verlag European Journal of Philosophy Blackwell Publishing Foundations of Physics Springer Verlag General Relativity and Gravitation Springer Verlag Journal for General Philosophy of Science Springer Verlag Journal of Consciousness Studies Imprint Academic Journal of Ap…
Read more…review over at Backreaction. My favorite two of her many suggestions are: Online interface for anonymous author-reviewer communication. Why keep the slow (and frankly archaic) editor-mediated communication between author and reviewer, when everyone has access to the interwebs? An anonymized online interface would be quicker, easier, and more useful. In particular, it would allow for quick clarificatory questions, and even back-and-forth discussio…
Read more…heorem or something like it? It is widely believe that the CPT may fail in generic extensions of quantum theory. In particular, the requirement of a unitary representation of the Poincaré group is pretty strong, and may not hold in the kind of general context of interest in quantum gravity. Just search for CPT-violation on the arxiv to see what I mean. But there is a sense in which something “like” a CPT theorem probably will hold in physics beyon…
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