Philosophy of physics Archives - Department of Philosophy

Head shot of Chris Smeenk, a man with borwn hair and a short beard, smiling and wearing a checkered shirt standing in front of a university building covered in red ivy

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Chris Smeenk, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, and the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, has research interests in the history and philosophy of physics, general issues in the philosophy of science, and seventeenth-century natural philosophy.

Head shot of Jenann Ismael, a middle-aged woman with long, reddish brown hair smiling into the camera wearing a purple dress

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Jenann Ismael is the inaugural William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in philosophy of physics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mind.

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

This year’s Edith Bruce Memorial Lecture on Immortality will be delivered by David Wallace, Mellon Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh whose research focuses on the Everett interpretation of quantum theory (often called the “Many-Worlds interpretation”).

Philosophy of physics

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chris Smeenk, Western)

Colloquium (Jenann Ismael, Johns Hopkins)

2022 Edith Bruce Memorial Lecture on Immortality (David Wallace, Pittsburgh)