The History of Thermodynamics and Scientific Realism Workshop

The History of Thermodynamics and Scientific Realism

A one-day workshop, to be held on Tuesday 12th May 2015, at Durham University, Durham, UK.

9-10: Tim Lyons and Peter Vickers, 'Scientific Realism and the Challenge from Thermodynamics'

10-11.20: Keith Hutchison, 'No Miracle at all: The Thomson Brothers' Prediction that Pressure Depresses the Freezing Point of Water'

11.20-11.45: Refreshments

11.45-12.35: Barrie Tonkinson, 'Carnot, his Two Theorems, and a Phenemenological Context Relating Thermodynamics to Einstein'

12.35-1.35: Lunch

1.35-2.55: Ben Marsden, Title TBC

2.55-3.45: Vasil Penchev: 'Reality in a Few Thermodynamic Reference Frames: Statistical Thermodynamics from Boltzmann via Gibbs to Einstein' 

3.45-4.10: Refreshments

4.10-5.30: Owen Maroney, 'What is Temperature, Really?'

6.30: Drinks and dinner