Lugano Philosophy Colloquia. Hans Halvorson

Hans Halvorson (Princeton) will give a talk on Friday, April 4 at 5.30pm (CET), Room Multiuso FTL Building (USI west campus), as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia of Spring 2025.

Reduction redux

Chaired by Joshua Babic (USI)

Abstract:

To his list of perennial philosophical questions, Kant might have added: can everything be reduced to the microphysical basis? I return to this question with, hopefully, wisdom gained from a hundred years of trying to make that claim precise, and of arguing about whether it is true. I take two focal points for discussion: (1) the worry (or hope!) that quantum physics shows reductionism to be false, and (2) the hope (or worry!) that new formal insights can save reductionism.

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