Summer Schools

Speakers: Daniel Harlow (MIT), Erik Curiel (LMU Munich), Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva), Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg), Sebastian De Haro (UvA), Enrico Magnani (Artist/ex-Researcher).

The topic of the school is “Philosophy of Cosmology” and will feature lectures given by Christopher Smeenk (Western University, and Director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy), Erik Curiel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), and afternoon seminars given by Alfio Bonanno (INAF, Catania Astrophysical Observatory), Elena Pian (INAF, Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory, Bologna), Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino) and Giovanni Macchia (University of Urbino).

Speakers: Jonathan Bain (Department of Technology, Culture and Society/Philosophy Department, NYU), Johanna Erdmenger (Physics Department, University of Würzburg), Sebastian De Haro (Philosophy Department, UvA), Jeremy Butterfield (Philosophy Department, University of Cambridge), Baptiste Le Bihan (Philosophy Department, University of Geneva)

The XXVII International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics of the University of Urbino will focus on a crucial topic of research in physics and philosophy: Dark Energy. 

The Summer School will be held in Urbino from June 3rd to June 7th 2024.

The school will feature in-depth lectures on the physics, philosophy, and conceptual foundations of Dark Energy and its relations to cosmology, epistemology, and metaphysics. This year's speakers are Erik Curiel (University of Bonn), Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU Munich), Vera Matarese (University of Perugia), Juliusz Doboszewski (University of Bonn).