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Real possibilities: what they are and how they are represented in physics?

2016/23/B/HS1/00464

Keywords:

modalities branching spacetimes determinism indeterminism Cauchy's problem Einstein's field equations the geodesic equation

Descriptors:

  • HS1_2: Ontology and metaphysics, particular ontologies
  • HS1_4: Logic, science methodology, philosophy of science

Panel:

HS1 - Fundamental questions of human existence and the nature of reality: philosophy, cognition, religious studies, theology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filozoficzny

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Tomasz Placek 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 12 - announced on 2016-09-15

Amount awarded: 485 619 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-09-01

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-08-31

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. tablet (2 293 PLN)
  2. tablet (3 000 PLN)
  3. laptop (2 szt.) (6 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (10)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (3)
  1. Can dispositions replace laws in the description of the physical world?
    Authors:
    Joanna Luc
    Academic press:
    Journal of General Philosophy of Science , Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  2. Some Problems with the Russellian Open Future
    Authors:
    Jacek Wawer
    Academic press:
    Acta Analytica (rok: 2018, tom: 33, strony: 413–425), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s12136-018-0345-8 - link to the publication
  3. Are real possibilities compatible with special relativity? An analysis of Putnam's argument
    Authors:
    Joanna Luc and Tomasz Placek
    Academic press:
    Philosophy of Physics , Wydawca: LSE
    Status:
    Submitted
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  4. On possible histories of the growing universe in the causal sets theory – an order-type approach. Part II: the philosophical interpretation
    Authors:
    Tomasz Placek i Leszek Wroński
    Academic press:
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  5. Generalised manifolds as basic objects of General Relativity
    Authors:
    Joanna Luc
    Academic press:
    Foundations of Physics (rok: 2019, tom: 50(6), strony: 621-643), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10701-019-00292-w - link to the publication
  6. Modality in Physics
    Authors:
    Hofer-Szabo, Gabor, Luc, Joanna, and Placek, Tomasz
    Academic press:
    Foundation of Physics (rok: 2020, tom: 50(6), strony: 551-521), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10701-020-00344-6 - link to the publication
  7. Past, present and future modally introduced
    Authors:
    Tomasz Placek
    Academic press:
    Synthese (rok: 2021, tom: 198, strony: 3603–3624), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11229-019-02302-w - link to the publication
  8. Branching with a Humean face
    Authors:
    Wroński, Leszek
    Academic press:
    Metaphysica , Wydawca: de Gruyter
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  9. Interpreting non-Hausdorff (generalized) manifolds in General Relativity
    Authors:
    Joanna Luc and Tomasz Placek
    Academic press:
    Philosophy of Science (rok: 2020, tom: 87, strony: 21-42), Wydawca: Phil of Science Assoc.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1086/706116 - link to the publication
  10. On possible histories of the growing universe in the causal sets theory – an order-type approach. Part I: the formal foundations
    Authors:
    Tomasz Placek i Leszek Wroński
    Academic press:
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  1. History relativism as extreme assessment relativism: A note on Prior's Ockhamism
    Authors:
    Jacek Wawer
    Book:
    Logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior (rok: 2020, tom: 2, strony: 387-400), Wydawca: Aalborg University Press
    Status:
    Published
  2. Is Physics Biased Against Real Possibilities?
    Authors:
    Tomasz Placek
    Book:
    New Approaches to Scientific Realism (rok: 2020, ), Wydawca: Gonzalez, W. J. (ed)
    Status:
    Published
  3. Ochamism without molinism
    Authors:
    Wawer, Jacek
    Book:
    Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Accepted for publication

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