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CATEGORIES:Seminari
CREATED:20260206T082251
SUMMARY:1st Turin Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Science
LOCATION:Aula 12 - Palazzo Nuovo - Via Sant'Ottavio\, 20 - Torino
DESCRIPTION:Turin Seminar in the History and Philosophy of ScienceStefano Furlan, Utrec
 ht University\nUprooting the Tree of Physics: John Wheeler from the Renaiss
 ance of General Relativity to 'It from Bit' Anyone with an interest in 20th
 -century physics has heard the name of John A. Wheeler (1911-2008), but, if
  we were to ask what he actually did over the course of his long career and
  how that relates to the eminent status usually accorded to him, the answer
  would often be rather confused. Luckily, Wheeler also left a vast archive 
 that allows us to reconstruct his original ideas, ambitious aims, peculiar 
 methodology, and fruitful suggestions. In this talk, in the light of Wheele
 r's notebooks and other archival materials, I will sketch his trajectory ro
 ughly from the early 1950s, when his attention first turned to general rela
 tivity, to the early 1980s, when he enunciated his radical "law without law
 " and the main traits of the later "it from bit" made their appearance. As 
 Wheeler's questions became more and more ambitious, he also tried to establ
 ish dialogues with other disciplines, among which biochemistry, logic, and 
 the history of philosophy. I will also detail some of these transdisciplina
 ry dialogues and make a few methodological considerations on how to deal wi
 th them, both conceptually and historiographically.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Turin Seminar in the History an
 d Philosophy of Science</strong></span></div><p><span style="font-size: 14p
 t;">Stefano Furlan, Utrecht University</span></p><div><strong>Uprooting the
  Tree of Physics: John Wheeler from the Renaissance of General Relativity t
 o 'It from Bit'</strong></div><div><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div><div>Anyone
  with an interest in 20th-century physics has heard the name of John A. Whe
 eler (1911-2008), but, if we were to ask what he actually did over the cour
 se of his long career and how that relates to the eminent status usually ac
 corded to him, the answer would often be rather confused. Luckily, Wheeler 
 also left a vast archive that allows us to reconstruct his original ideas, 
 ambitious aims, peculiar methodology, and fruitful suggestions. In this tal
 k, in the light of Wheeler's notebooks and other archival materials, I will
  sketch his trajectory roughly from the early 1950s, when his attention fir
 st turned to general relativity, to the early 1980s, when he enunciated his
  radical "law without law" and the main traits of the later "it from bit" m
 ade their appearance. As Wheeler's questions became more and more ambitious
 , he also tried to establish dialogues with other disciplines, among which 
 biochemistry, logic, and the history of philosophy. I will also detail some
  of these transdisciplinary dialogues and make a few methodological conside
 rations on how to deal with them, both conceptually and historiographically
 .</div>
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