The Sigma Club is a historic lecture series in the philosophy and foundations of physics, founded in 1987 by Michael Redhead at Cambridge, and moving to LSE in 1997 where it is now hosted by the CPNSS. It meets on Monday afternoons during normal term time and is free and open to all.
Join the Sigma Club mailing list
Videos more…
Upcoming Sigma Club Lectures
Previous Lectures
Kiki Timmermans (King’s College London) Sigma Club: Analogies and Frameworks in Quantum Field Theory
15 May, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at LAK 2.06Tushar Menon (University of Cambridge): ‘Inferential Scientific Realism’
6 March, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at LAK 2.06Caspar Jacobs (Merton College): How (Not) to Define Inertial Frames
30 January, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at LAK 2.06Nick Huggett (U of Illinois, Chicago) Sigma Club: Quantum gravity in a laboratory
28 November 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at LAK 2.06Lucy James (Lancaster) Sigma Club, Naturalised Metaphysics: The Case of Separability
24 October 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at LAK 2.06Harvey Brown (Oxford) Sigma Club: What justifies the common claim that symmetries explain conservation principles?
17 October 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at LAK 2.06Jacob Barandes (Harvard): “A New Critical Analysis of Everettian Quantum Theory”
23 May 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at Online via ZoomMargherita Harris (LSE): “Model Robustness: Schupbach’s Explanatory Account of Robustness Analysis to the Rescue?”
21 March 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at Online via ZoomDennis Dieks (Utrecht): “Identical quantum particles as distinguishable objects”
22 November 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at Online via ZoomSamuel Fletcher (Minnesota): “The Principle of Stability”
25 October 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm at Online via Zoom
Connect with us
Facebook
Twitter
Youtube
Flickr