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SUMMARY:“On Functional Freedom and Penrose’s Critiques of String Theory”
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Abstract: In his <em>The Road to Reality</em> as well as in his <em>Fashion\, Faith and Fantasy</em>\, Roger Penrose criticises string theory and its practitioners from a variety of angles ranging from conceptual\, technical\, and methodological objections to sociological observations about the string theoretic scientific community. In this talk\, I assess Penrose&rsquo\;s conceptual/technical objections to string theory\, focussing in particular upon those which invoke the notion of &lsquo\;functional freedom&rsquo\;.<br><br>(Based upon joint work with Matěj Kr&aacute\;tk&yacute\; (Oxford)\; preprint available here: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22732/.)</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jacob Barandes:
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