Article by Andrzej Biłat published in Synthese

We are pleased to announce that the article by Andrzej Biłat, entitled The correctness and relevance of the modal ontological argument, was published in Synthese. The paper is published in OA. We encourage you to read it on the journal's website: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11229-020-02908-5.continue reading →

International Center for Formal Ontology (ICFO)

  • Posted on 2 January 2021
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The International Center for Formal Ontology (ICFO) is a centre of research excellence devoted to the formal ontology. ICFO was created in February 2015 and is affiliated at Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, Poland. For more general information about the Center visit our Aims, Program Council, Members, Publications, Research collaborators  and Research Groups. continue reading →

Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: Radin Dardashti (11 December on Zoom)

  • Posted on 7 December 2020
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On Friday, 11 December, Radin Dardashti (University of Wuppertal) will give a talk entitled “The rise and fall of scientific problems” (abstract below). The meeting will take place online on Zoom (16:00-18:00 CET). If you have not registered yet, you can do so by sending a message to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl. The program for the winter semester can be found here, while the recordings of the previous meetings are available on the ICFO’s YouTube channel. Abstract: The everyday practice of scientists is to a large extent determined by the scientific problems they are confronted with.…continue reading →

Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: Claus Kiefer (27 November on Zoom)

  • Posted on 23 November 2020
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On Friday, 27 November, Claus Kiefer (University of Cologne) will give a talk entitled “Time in quantum gravity” (abstract below). The meeting will take place online on Zoom (16:00-18:00 CET). If you have not registered yet, you can do so by sending a message to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl. The program for the winter semester can be found here, while the recordings of the previous meetings are available on the ICFO's YouTube channel. Abstract: Time is absolute in standard quantum theory and dynamical in general relativity. The combination of the two theories into a theory of…continue reading →

Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: James Read (30 October on Zoom)

  • Posted on 28 October 2020
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On Friday, 30 October, James Read (University of Oxford) will give a talk entitled “Shifts and reference” (abstract below). The meeting will take place online on Zoom (16:00-18:00 CET). If you have not registered yet, you can do so by sending a message to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl. The program for the winter semester can be found here, while the recordings of the previous meetings are available on the ICFO's YouTube channel. Abstract: Maudlin’s ‘metric essentialist’ response to the hole argument of general relativity is well-known, but differs strikingly from his response to what is often…continue reading →

Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: J. Brian Pitts (16 October on Zoom)

  • Posted on 12 October 2020
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On Friday, 16 October, J. Brian Pitts (University of Lincoln, University of Cambridge, University of South Carolina) will give a talk entitled “Change in observables in Hamiltonian general relativity” (abstract below). The meeting will take place online on Zoom (16:00-18:00 CET). If you have not registered yet, you can do so by sending a message to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl. The program for the winter semester can be found here, while the recordings of the previous meetings are available on the ICFO's YouTube channel. Abstract: Since the 1950s it has been claimed that change is missing…continue reading →

New publication in Review of Philosophy and Psychology

  • Posted on 11 October 2020
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The paper entitled “Situated Counting“, written by Peter Gärdenfors & Paula Quinon, has been published in Review of Philosophy and Psychology (open access). We encourage everyone interested to read it: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-020-00508-3. Below is an abstract: "We present a model of how counting is learned based on the ability to perform a series of specific steps. The steps require conceptual knowledge of three components: numerosity as a property of collections; numerals; and one-to-one mappings between numerals and collections. We argue that establishing one-to-one mappings is the central feature of counting. In the literature, the…continue reading →

Einstein Studies Vol. 15 Published

  • Posted on 1 October 2020
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The fifteenth volume of the Einstein studies, entitled "Thinking About Space and Time", has been just published by Birkhäuser (link). The book includes an essay written by Antonio Vassallo and Carl Hoefer (see here for more information).continue reading →

Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: Carlo Rovelli (2 October on Zoom)

  • Posted on 28 September 2020
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On Friday, 2 October, Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University) will give a talk entitled "Why can we decide what we shall do tomorrow, but we cannot decide what we did yesterday? Time reversibility and the physics of an agent" (abstract below). The meeting will take place online on Zoom (16:00-18:00 CET). If you have not registered yet, you can do so by sending a message to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl. The program for the winter semester can be found here. Abstract: Much of the confusion in the philosophy of spacetime stems from the failure to recognize that 'space'…continue reading →

New Member

  • Posted on 10 September 2020
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Pedro Naranjo has just joined the ICFO, where he will work as a research assistant on the project "Self-Subsisting Structures in Quantum Gravity". Pedro is a theoretical physicist interested in the foundations of classical and quantum gravity. Also, he has started his PhD studies in philosophy at the University of Warsaw. Welcome Pedro!continue reading →