SIBST2022: International Summer Institute in Philosophy of Physics on the PHILOSOPHY OF COSMOLOGY and the PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM GRAVITY Hotel Le Crêt Morzine, France, June 26-July 1, 2022 |
Conference website | https://beyondspacetime.net/2022summerinstitute/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sibst2022 |
Submission deadline | March 15, 2022 |
Call for Applications:
International Summer Institute in Philosophy of Physics on the PHILOSOPHY OF COSMOLOGY and the PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM GRAVITY
Hosted by the University of Geneva-University of Illinois at Chicago Cosmology Beyond Spacetime project
Submission Guidelines
To apply for the Summer Institute, candidates should submit:
- A cover letter of no more than one page describing your current research interest and its relevance to the topic of the Summer School; please explain as specifically as possible how the summer school will benefit your research plans.
- A current CV.
- A short letter from your advisor or other person knowledgeable of your work, expressing your suitability.
- Optional: participants wishing to present their own work need to submit a title and a 500-word abstract. If accepted, they will get the opportunity to present their work.
Please combine all your documents into one PDF file.
List of Topics
In recent years, the philosophy of quantum gravity and the philosophy of cosmology have emerged as new fields in their own right, with several summer schools dedicated to each. However, they remain largely unconnected, even though their intersection promises new scientific insights of great significance to philosophical question and the advancement of physics. This Summer Institute proposes to address conceptual, metaphysical, and epistemological implications of big bang, black hole, and multiverse models in quantum gravity: the fundamental nature of space and time, especially the beginning of spacetime, 'before' time or 'outside' space; the multiverse; the nature of physical law; and how we might have knowledge of such things.
These are just some of the questions that we will discuss in this Summer Institute, which addresses graduate students and postdocs from philosophy of physics and related fields.
Committees
Organizing committee
- Nick Huggett
- Gaia Valenti
- Christian Wüthrich
Invited Speakers
- Karen Crowther (Oslo)
- Nick Huggett (Illinois at Chicago)
- Claus Kiefer (Cologne)
- Mairi Sakellariadou (King's College London)
- Chris Smeenk (Western)
- Francesca Vidotto (Western)
- David Wallace (Pittsburgh)
- Christian Wuthrich (Geneva)
Venue
The summer institute will be held in the Hotel Le Crêt in Morzine, France.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Gaia Valenti at gaia.valenti@etu.unige.ch.
Sponsors
The Summer Institute is generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. This support funds a significant part of room and board for accepted participants. However, there will be a fee of CHF 200 for each applicant, which will cover the remaining cost of room (single occupancy) and full board and the full participation in all activities of the Summer Institute. Participants are responsible for their travel to and from the site of the Summer Institute, and for incidentals such as beverages.