Az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeke
tisztelettel meghivja Ont es kollegait az
1996. November 11-en 17 orakor
a Budapest, Rakoczi ut 5. I. 105-os szobaban
tartando szeminariumara,
amelyre a Becsi Kor Intezettel (Ausztria)
valo egyuttmukodes kereteben kerul sor.
A szeminariumon az alabbi ket eloadas hangzik majd el:
THOMAS BREUER: A Goedelian Proposi
tion for Internal Observers
There have been suggestions that quantum mechanical incompleteness is just
a consequence of the Goedelian incompleteness of formal systems. These
claims are the main focus of the talk. Some undecidable propositions in
quantum mechanics are given.
Thomas Breuer was born 1966 in Poona, India. He studied physics at ETH
Zuerich, mathematics at Princeton, and Philosophy at Cambridge. He
obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1995. Today he
works at the Aust
rian Academy of Sciences.
MICHAEL STOELTZNER: Goedel and the Theory of Everything
The Incompleteness Theorem is often conceived as a straightforward
refutation of universal theories. Personally, however, Goedel believed
in the capability of human mind to have stronger intuitions than those
corresponding to any given formal system. To unravel and make fruitful
Goedel's original position I will study the papers recently published as
the third volume of the Complete Works. It turns out tha
t in many
respects Goedel reflects the then recent developments of mathematical
physics which allows him to develop interesting insights into the 'level
structure' we encounter among present physical theories. Goedel draws very
close parallels between mathematics and physics with respect to the role
of intuition and induction. Moreover, his own contribution to general
relativity, the rotating universe, limits Hilbert's axiomatization
program in the same manner as the incompleteness theorem did in
ma
thematics. In fact, it pinpoints at the intriguing question of the
relation between the general level of laws of nature (or symmetries) and
the respective solutions (or results of phase transitions) that mark the
steps in the 'level structure' of our present physical theories.
Michael Stoeltzner was born in Munich in 1964. He studied philosophy and
physics at Tuebingen University, at the International School of Advanced
Studies in Trieste (with a grant of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen
Volkes),
and the University of Vienna, where he graduated with Walter
Thirring in 1994. His fields of interest are philosophy of physics, in
particular the foundations of quantum mechanics, the history of the
Vienna Circle, and Kantian epistemology.
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