M. Dąbrowski - Varying Physical Constant Cosmologies and the Anthropic Principles

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Published on Saturday, 20 April 2013 03:57

In this talk the roots of the idea of varying physical constants cosmologies and its realization in specific models of particle physics are discussed. There are also shown some anthropic coincidences which limit variability of physical constants in our piece of the universe and make an appeal to the concept of a multiverse in which these coincidences do not necessarily appear.

This lecture was delivered during the 16th Kraków Methodological Conference "The Causal Universe", May 17-18, 2012.

J. Vetulani - Aggresion and empathy - a surprising mixture

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Published on Saturday, 30 March 2013 03:57

The lecture 'Aggresion and empathy - a surprising mixture' was delivered by Professor Jerzy Vetulani  during the 15th Kraków Methodological Conference - The Emotional Brain: From the Humanities to Neuroscience and Back Again.

Konrad Zdanowski - On intended models for arithmetic and intended notations

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Published on Saturday, 23 March 2013 03:57

The lecture delivered by Konrad Zdanowski, 'On intended models for arithmetic and intended notations', presented on the "Trends in Logic IX" conference - Church's Thesis: Logic, Mind and Nature, 3-5 June 2011, Kraków, Poland.
The conference was co-organized by Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Marek Kuś - The Uncertain Future and the Ambiguous Past in Classical, Quantum and General Non-signaling Settings

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Published on Saturday, 23 February 2013 03:57

Both classical and quantum physics conform to a general nonsignaling (causality) principle: results of an experiment in a well localized laboratory cannot instantaneously influence physical states of distant systems. Despite the fact that quantum correlations can be stronger than classical ones, which is reflected in violation of Bell-like inequalities, no information infringing non-signaling principle can be transmitted between distant parties. Interestingly, causality property does not distinguishes quantum correlations as the strongest possible -- there exist non-signaling theories exhibiting "stronger than quantum correlations" violating the so called Tsirelson bound imposed by quantum mechanics. It is thus tempting to ask why quantum mechanics is distinguished by being chosen to govern our world. Classical and quantum mechanics offer different mechanisms for making the past undetermined and the future uncertain -- how these ambiguities can appear in possible generalized non-signaling theories?

This lecture was delivered during the 16th Kraków Methodological Conference "The Causal Universe", May 17-18, 2012.

George F.R. Ellis - On the Nature of Cosmology Today

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Published on Tuesday, 29 January 2013 02:57

The fourth Copernicus Center Lecture titled "On the Nature of Cosmology Today" was delivered by Professor George Ellis, famous cosmologist, mathematician, philosopher of science, currently Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. In 2012 Copernicus Center Lecture was part of the 16th Kraków Methodological Conference - "The Causal Universe", which was co-organized by the Copenicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Dominique Lambert - Is there any place for paraconsistent logic in theology?

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Published on Monday, 07 January 2013 03:57

In the lecture "Do We Need any Paraconsistent Logic in Theology?" prof. Lambert, outlined several situations when non-classical logics may be useful in theological thinking and warned that paraconsistent logic should be used carefully.

M. Heller - Bottom-Up Causality in a New Setting

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Published on Monday, 31 December 2012 03:57

It is argued that taking into account both theoretical and experimental sides of the physical method, a quite common view that physics cannot grasp the truly causal dependencies but only temporal sequences of events, is simply false. Then the interaction of bottom-up and top-down causalities, and its role in shaping the structure of the world is briefly reviewed (basing mainly on George Ellis' works). Finally, the question is asked: how this account of causality could be modified by the advent of the theory of quantum gravity?

This lecture was delivered during the 16th Kraków Methodological Conference "The Causal Universe", May 17-18, 2012.
More information:
http://causal-universe.philosophyinscience.com
http://copernicuscenter.edu.pl
Photos:
http://www.adamwalanus.pl/2012/cc120517.html

J. Lewandowski - Quantizable Models of Gravity

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Published on Monday, 10 December 2012 03:57

This lecture was delivered during the 16th Kraków Methodological Conference "The Causal Universe", May 17-18, 2012.

J.-P. Uzan - Models of the Cosmos Hypothesis, Constraints and Open Possibilities

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Published on Monday, 26 November 2012 03:57

Cosmology has now established a reference model that allows to reproduce most observational data at the expense of introducing a dark sector. This has motivated the investigation of the robustness of the hypothesis of this standard model. In his talk, Professor Uzan summarized the main hypothesis and described how they can be tested. This characterized the robustness and weakness of our cosmological model, as well as the freedom to extend it.