Philosophers and Einstein’s Relativity. International Conference
Philosophers and Einstein’s Relativity
International Conference
The conference will explore how different philosophers and philosophical schools of the twentieth century responded to the Einsteinian revolution
The conference will be host on Microsoft Teams: ld5q7bg or tinyurl.com/3pprufuj
26/05/2021
15.30 – 16.00 Ruth Castillo Ochoa (Universidad de Alicante): Einstein and phenomenology: Husserl and Neelamkavil perspectives to the matter-field notions based on extension-change
16.00 – 17.00 Chiara Russo Krauss (Università Federico II di Napoli): Between Mach and Einstein. Petzoldt’s reading of the theory of relativity.
17.00 – 18.00 Paolo Pecere (Università degli Studi Roma Tre): The End of Matter? On the early reception of Relativity
18.00 – 19.00 Klaus Hentschel (Universität Stuttgart): (Mis-) Interpretations of the Theory of Relativity –Considerations of how they arise and how to analyze them
27/05/2021
15.30 – 16.00 Jorge Manero (Czech Academy of Sciences): Illustrating Cassirer philosophy with a wider relativistic structure
16.00 – 17.00 Luigi Laino (Università Federico II di Napoli): Natorp, Cassirer and the influence of Relativity on Neokantian philosophy
17.00 – 18.00 Francesca Biagioli (Università di Torino): Cassirer and Klein on the geometrical foundations of relativistic physics
18.00 – 19.00 Marco Giovannelli (Università di Torino): Unification vs. geometrization. Einstein and Reichenbach on relativity and the unified field theory program
28/05/2021
15.30 – 16.00 Mayra Moreira da Costa (Universidade de São Paulo): The problem of the relativity of simultaneity and the causal solution
16.00 – 17.00 Matthias Neuber (Universität Tübingen): Einstein’s relativity from the viewpoint of R. W. Sellars’s “The Philosophy of Physical Realism
17.00 – 18.00 Dennis Lehmkuhl (Universität Bonn): Einstein’s forgotten interpretation of general relativity: on the unification of gravity and inertia and the abolishment of spacetime
18.00 – 19.00 Don Howard (University of Notre Dame – IN): The impact of general relativity on the philosophy of science