INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

In honour of Massimo Pauri on the occasion of his nomination as Professor Emeritus

UNIVERSITY OF PARMA -- PHYSICS DEPARTMENT

Auditorium Centro S. Elisabetta

October 13-14, 2006

Participants

Evandro Agazzi	Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Genoa. President of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Bruxelles.
Jeremy Butterfield	Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, and Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford. Titular member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Bruxelles.
Mauro Dorato	Professor of Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome-III.
Gian Carlo Ghirardi	Professor of Theoretical Physics, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Trieste, and Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste.
Luca Lusanna	Research Director, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Section of Florence. Presidente SIGRAV
Jesús Mosterin	Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of CSIC, and Professor of Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Barcelona. Vice-President of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Bruxelles.
Daniele Mundici	Professor of Mathematical Logic, Department of Mathematics, University of Florence. Titular member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Bruxelles. Member of the Academy of Science of Argentina. Former President of the Kurt Goedel Gesellschaft, Wien.
Massimo Pauri	Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Parma. Member of the Conseil Académique of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Bruxelles.
Carlo Rovelli	Professor of Theoretical Physics, Université de la Méditerranée et Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy, Marseille. Permanent Staff Member of the Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh.
Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu	Member of the FEST and ausserplanmässiger Professor, Institut für Teoretische Physik, University of Heidelberg. Corresponding Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Bruxelles.
Roberto Torretti	Professor Emeritus of the Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Titular Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Bruxelles.

Programme

October 13, Friday -- Auditorium Centro S.Elisabetta - Campus


9:00	Opening Session - Welcome
	Introduction: Daniele Mundici

	Rector of the Parma University
	Dean of the Faculty of Science
	Director of the Physics Department

	Chair: Carlo Rovelli
9:30	Evandro Agazzi: To what Extent Physics Remains Natural Philosophy ?
10:30	Roberto Torretti: "Rod Contraction" and "Clock Retardation" in Special Relativity: Two harmless misnomers ?
	(A paper dedicated to Massimo Pauri: in absence of Roberto Torretti, a brief message will be read.)
10:40	Daniele Mundici: Algorithmic Complexity and (Mathematical) Nature
11:40	Coffee Break
12:00	Jesús Mosterin: Contemporary Cosmology and Scientific Method: A Confrontation

13:00	Lunch: Campus Cafeteria

	Chair: Mauro Dorato
14:30	Ion Olimpiu Stamatescu: A View on the Symbolic Structure of Physics
15:30	Jeremy Butterfield: Reconsidering Relativistic Causality
16:30	Coffee Break
16:50	Gian Carlo Ghirardi: The Quantum Reduction Process and Relativity
17:50	Carlo Rovelli: Relational EPR ?
20:30	Dinner: Trattoria ``Antichi Sapori" (Gaione, Parma)

October 14, Saturday -- Auditorium Centro S.Elisabetta - Campus


	Chair:Jeremy Butterfield
9:30	Luca Lusanna: Dynamical Emergence of 3-Space in General Relativity
10:30	Massimo Pauri: Dis-solution of Einstein's Hole Argument and the Weak Objectivity of Space-Time
11:30	Coffee Break
11:50	Mauro Dorato: Structural Space-Time Realism and the Evaporation of the Substantivalism-Relationism Debate
13:00	Farewell

Organizers

Proffs. Mario Casartelli [+39(0521)905221], Roberto De Pietri [+39(0521)905227], Enrico Onofri

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