We are pleased to announce that on Friday, April 4 at 5.30pm (CET), Hans Halvorson
(Princeton) will give the talk Reduction redux as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia
Spring 2025 organised by the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.
This hybrid talk will take place in Room Multiuso, FTL Building (USI West Campus) and
online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining online, please write to
events.isfi(a)usi.ch.
Here is the abstract of the talk:
To his list of perennial philosophical questions, Kant might have added: can everything be
reduced to the microphysical basis? I return to this question with, hopefully, wisdom
gained from a hundred years of trying to make that claim precise, and of arguing about
whether it is true. I take two focal points for discussion: (1) the worry (or hope!) that
quantum physics shows reductionism to be false, and (2) the hope (or worry!) that new
formal insights can save reductionism.
For more information:
https://www.ftl.usi.ch/it/feeds/14907