Duck/Rabbit Lectures #3

Wednesday, March 18, 20.30h, entrance € 5
Common/battle ground for science and philosophy

Duck/Rabbit Lectures are a series of monthly lectures during which philosophy and science meet. Each month two researchers tackle a subject departing from their own field of study, as we witness how the two disciplines clash/ooze into each other.

Subject Matter
The third Duck/Rabbit Lecture will take an abstract turn when we take a closer look at the (causal) properties of objects and quantum physics. When do we call something an object, what is causality and what do quarks have to do with it?

Philosopher
Frank van Caspel is a PhD student working in Philosophy of Mind at the Open University in Nijmegen. Frank will argue that we don’t know any properties at all – everything we now call a property is really a process. But what is it that is engaged in these processes? Is it fundamental particles or something else entirely?

Scientist
Dr. Patrick Gonzalez is a theoretical physicist who wrote his dissertation on the Higgs Boson. He is currently doing a post-doc on EPID dosimetry at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Dr. Gonzalez will say something about local realism, Bell’s inequalities and why philosophy should not be left to philosophers.