Dear all: Jim Weatherall (UC Irvine), author of the best selling Physics of Wall Street, and renowned philosopher of physics to boot!, will visit Cambridge for 6 days from 11 November.
The main deal is his Saturday 12 November Masterclass in philosophy of physics; for details of which go to: https://cambridgemasterclass.wordpress.com BUT, for those of you interested in philosophy / foundations of economics!, he will talk: 1) next Tuesday 15 Nov at 4.00 in the Board Room (first floor, left) history and philosophy of science department: on the Black-Scholes model; Suggested (but not required!) reading beforehand is from his popular book, The Physics of Wall Street: viz. Chapter 4, Beating the Dealer. 2) in the CamPoS talk series, Wednesday 16 Nov at 13.00, seminar room 2 history and philosophy of science dept: What makes econphysics distinctive. the series details are at http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos Best, Jeremy B ------ Jeremy Butterfield: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ: Tel: 07557-668413 (mobile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
