Forum for European Philosophy ‘Consilience’ panel discussion
Date: Thursday 1 May 2014
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speakers: Dr Bryan Roberts, Professor Mairi Sakellariadou
Chair: Dr Eleanor Knox
Galileo famously wrote that natural philosophy is “written in the language of mathematics”. Why is it that abstract pieces of mathematics, like an imaginary number, often later turn out to be surprisingly effective in describing concrete aspects of the
natural world?
Bryan Roberts is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE and Forum for European Philosophy fellow.
Mairi Sakellariadou is a professor of theoretical physics at King’s College London.
Eleanor Knox is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London.
Update, Wednesday 30 April: Due to unforeseen circumstances Professor Steven French will no longer be speaking as part of this event.
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