Colloquia

March 17, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd 121   Join us on March 17th, 2023 for a colloquium with Eddy Keming Chen, UC San Diego. The talk will take place in Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.   RSVP HERE     A strongly deterministic theory of physics is one that permits exactly one possible history of the universe. In the words of Penrose (1989), “it is not just a matter of the future being determined by the past; the entire history of the universe is fixed, according to some precise mathematical scheme, for all...

April 21, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT Royce Hall 243 (and Zoom) Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98234276234?pwd=ZkpiMFNCSjFvSVNoK1FpWFBJWjkzQT09   Join us on April 21, 2023 for a colloquium with Kyla Ebels Duggan, Northwestern University. The talk will take place in Royce Hall Room 243 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM with a reception on the 3rd floor Royce Patio to follow.   RSVP HERE   The Reasons We Cannot Share   According to political liberals, a pluralist society should leave each person free to pursue their own conception of the good, but individuals should bracket these values when engaging in...