Conference on the PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM GRAVITY

June 27, 2017 - June 30, 2017
University of Geneva

Château de Bossey
Bogis-Bossey
Switzerland

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Sponsor(s):

  • John Templeton Foundation
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Illinois, Chicago

Organisers:

Nick Huggett
University of Illinois, Chicago
Baptiste Le Bihan
University of Geneva
Keizo Matsubara
University of Illinois, Chicago
Christian Wüthrich
University of Geneva

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Invited keynote speakers: To be announced

The investigation of quantum gravity has been central to theoretical physics for at least two decades, but philosophy has only begun to systematically engage with this field in the past few years. The purpose of this meeting is bring together people with research agendas in the philosophy of quantum gravity, to provide a venue to review and develop a common understanding of the state of the field: questions, approaches, solutions and, especially, novel insights and avenues of investigation. We intend that some talks will engage directly with philosophy and philosophers thus-far outside of quantum gravity.

We solicit papers on any topic in the philosophical foundations of quantum gravity. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in work that addresses the foci of the ‘Space and Time After Quantum Gravity’ project: Does quantum gravity eliminate spacetime as fundamental structure? How does quantum gravity explain the appearance of spacetime? What are the broader implications of quantum gravity for metaphysical (and other) accounts of the world.

Paper presentations should be suitable for presentations in 30 minutes (not including discussion period). Please submit an extended abstract of up to 500 words, together with the title of the talk. The abstract should be anonymized for blind refereeing. Advanced PhD students or recent PhDs are particularly invited to submit abstracts, as are women and underrepresented minorities. All sessions will be videoed for public distribution after the meeting.

Deadline: 31 January 2017 (we will try to communicate decisions end of February 2017)

Abstracts should be submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpqg2017.

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