DAVID SCHROEREN

Past Talks

*invited

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Quantum permutations are not qualitative isomorphisms (and what this tells us about haecceitism)

• Geneva Symmetry Group, March 31, 2022 

• ILMPS Conference 2022, Milan, April 6, 2022 [link]

• *Colloquium, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, Mexico, May 4, 2022

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Quantum Metaphysical Indeterminacy and the Ontological Foundations of Orthodoxy

• 2021 conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, September 2021.

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The Theory of Every Thing: Toward a Symmetry-Based Metaphysics of Matter

• *Department of Philosophy, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, February 2020

• *Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February 2020

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The Ontology of Symmetry Groups

• Society for the Metaphysics of Science 2019, University of Toronto, Canada, November 2019

• ILMPS Conference, University of Salzburg, Austria, September 2019

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Why Is Spin Discrete?

• *The Structure of Reality and the Reality of Structure, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2019​​ [Video]

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Symmetry Fundamentalism​

• 2019 Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, New York City, January 2019

• *Institute of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, Germany, December 2018

• *Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK, November 2018

• Society for the Metaphysics of Science 4th Annual Conference, Milan, Italy, August 2018

• *Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, July 2018

• *Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, July 2018

• XXI International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics, Urbino, Italy, June 2018

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The Metaphysics of Invariance

• 5th International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics, Saig, Germany, July 2017

• Direct Empirical Status and the Ontology of Symmetries in Physics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, July 2017

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Symmetry and the Real Definition of Physical Properties

• Philosophy of Physics Reading Group, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine, May 2017

• Philosophy of Physics Research Group, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego, May 2017

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Scientific Explanation, Grounding, and Hyperintensional Ontology

• Ground in Philosophy of Science, Université de Genève, September 2016

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Is the Semantics of Scientific Theories Hyperintensional?

• The Semantics of Theories, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, June 2016

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On Kant's Derivation of the Regulative Principle of Systematic Unity

• 2nd HU-Princeton Workshop 'Cognition and Causality', Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, June 2016

• 12th International Kant Congress 'Nature and Freedom', Universität Wien, September 2015

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Theoretical Equivalence as Explanatory Equivalence

• British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) Annual Conference, The University of Manchester, July 2015

• Philosophy of Logic, Maths, and Physics (LMP) Conference, Western University, London, Ontario, June 2015

• 1st Munich Graduate Workshop in Mathematical Philosophy: Philosophy of Physics, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, April 2015 

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Existential Risk Reduction – A Rawlsian Duty of Justice to Future Generations?   

• 'Social Equality' Conference, University of Cape Town, August 2014

• Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Princeton University, April 2014

• Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Theory, University of Warwick, February 2014 

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Decoherent Histories of Spin Networks

• Beyond Spacetime Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, September 2013

• Foundations of Physics Conference, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, July 2013

• LOOPS '13 Conference, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, July 2013