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Venue

Auditorio de Filosofía, Campus San Joaquín
Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago

Program

Wednesday 14

09:30-10:15
Manuel Herrera, University of Buenos Aires - CONICET
"Fundamentality and ontological dependence in the debate about the nature of spacetime in general relativity"
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Chair: Pablo Acuña

10:30-11:15
Carlos Romero, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
"Against potentialities, in favor of constraints"
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Chair: Manuel Herrera 

11:30-12:30
Décio Krause, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
"Quantum non-individuals and their logic"
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Chair: Pablo Acuña

14:45-15:30
David Rojas, University of Santiago de Chile
"Nancy Cartwright and the problem of scientific representation"
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Chair: Décio Krause

Thursday 15

09:30-10:15
Matías Pasqualini and Sebastián Fortín, University of Buenos Aires - CONICET
"Possibility and time in quantum mechanics"
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Chair: Emily Adlam

10:30-11:15
Emily Adlam, University of Western Ontario
"Is there causation in fundamental physics? New insights from process matrices and quantum causal modelling"
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Chair: Matías Pasqualini

11:30-12:30
Wayne Myrvold, University of Western Ontario
"A tale of two sciences, both called “thermodynamics”"
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Chair: Pablo Acuña

14:45-15:30
Jon Charry, University of California Santa Barbara
"How not to deploy symmetry arguments"
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Chair: Cristian López

15:45-16:30
Cristian López, Univesity of Lausanne
"Symmetry deflationism: a prospect"
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Chair: Jon Charry

Friday 16

09:30-10:15
Diego Maltrana, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
"The heuristic power of theory classification: the case of general relativity"
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Chair: Pablo Acuña

10:30-11:15
Pablo Acuña, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
"Alice through the convex mirror: a Helmholtzian lesson for dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories"
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Chair: Diego Maltrana

11:30-12:30
Elise Crull, The City College of New York
"Temporal entanglement"
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Chair: Wayne Myrvold

14:45-15:30
Francisco Lustosa, Brazilian Center of Physical Reasearch
"Wavefunction and probabilites in quantum cosmology"
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Chair: Valia Allori

15:45-16:30
Valia Allori, Northern Illinois University
"Naturalness with a Humean face?"
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Chair: Francisco Lustosa

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