Originally from France, a night of philosophy and ideas is a marathon of philosophical debate, performances, readings, and music happening overnight.
Boston’s first Night of Philosophy & Ideas at Harvard University will bring together academics from various disciplines, as well as artists, activists, and public intellectuals to address a variety of timely questions around this year’s...
Harvard Logic Colloquium: George E. Smith (Tufts U.), Theory-Mediated Measurement of Interlinked Constants Evidence of a Different Kind?
In his landmark paper of 1900 in which he derived his law of blackbody radiation from Boltzmann’s theory of entropy, Planck invoked as evidence inferred values for a series of theoretically interlinked microphysical constants none of which had been measured with precision before. In doing so he initiated a kind of evidence that had never been successfully deployed before, yet quickly came to be central to modern microphysics. The...
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