Reading Groups

Philosophy of Physics

This term, the philosophy of physics group will read Kian Salimkhani's book on 'The Non-Fundamentality of Spacetime'. The group will meet Thursdays 18:00-19:00 on Zoom.

For further information and a link to the Zoom meeting room, please contact Laurie Letertre at lLaurie.letertre@gmail.com.

Reading group on philosophy of machine learning

We meet (online) every two-three weeks to discuss a (recent) paper in the philosophy of machine learning, with a focus, but not an exclusive focus, on epistemological themes. The timeslot for the summer semester 2024 is Monday 11-12 AM.

If you like to join us, please contact Tom Sterkenburg (tom.sterkenburg@lmu.de) or Timo Freiesleben (timo.freiesleben@web.de). You can also find the schedule on http://tomster.userweb.mwn.de/mlregr/.

Homotopy type theory reading group

In this reading group we will be mostly following the book "Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations of Mathematics", by the Univalent Foundations Project (https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/), but we also use "Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory", by Egbert Rijke (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.11082.pdf), for the necessary background in type theory.
The reading group will take place on Mondays from 4pm to 5pm in room 314, Schellingstr. 9. For more information contact Ma.Esteves@lmu.de.

Reading group on Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language (the modified English translation in 1937)

Introduction: This semester we plan to read Carnap's book Logical Syntax of Language (LSS). We will meet weekly to discuss roughly 20 pages of the book. The reading process will focus on the main questions: What role do Carnap's terminology settings play in achieving his epistemological goal? And how does Carnap understand the relation between metalanguage and object-language? We may also bring sections from Carnap's other books such as Meaning and Necessity and the relevant secondary literature into the discussion, but the focus will be on the original text of LSS. (No prior knowledge of Carnap’s work is required.)

If you would like to join us, please contact Nata (yangzhwy@outlook.com) or Andreas (Andreas.Frenzel@campus.lmu.de).

The reading group will take place on Wednesdays, 2-4pm, in the Statistics Library, Ludwigstr. 33.

Incomplete Reading Group

We are meeting on a regular basis to read mainly P. Smith’s work on Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Typically we meet on Thursdays at 10 am in Norbert’s office.
Contact: Norbert Gratzl, N.Gratzl@lmu.de

Van Fraassen Reading Group

We will discuss various aspects of Bas van Fraassen’s epistemology and philosophy of science — in particular, his views on rational belief, voluntarist epistemology, and scientific explanation.

For further information on the reading group, please contact John Dougherty (John.Dougherty@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) and/or Alexander Reutlinger (Alexander.Reutlinger@lmu.de).

Reading group on Rheinberger's Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation

organized by Alice Murphy with colleagues from LMU, Cambridge, Exeter, and UCL.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo192229451.html

The plan is to meet fortnightly on Zoom on Wednesdays, 10.00 – 11.30 Munich time (9.00 - 10.30 UK time), starting 16th October. We will read a couple of chapters per session.

Please email Alice at alice.murphy@lrz.uni-muenchen.de if you're interested in joining.