Virtual entities in science: a virtual workshop

Session

Contributed Talks

5 Mar 2021, 14:30

Online

50. Virtual Presence in the Early Modern Conception of Immaterial Entities

Edward Slowik

05/03/2021, 14:30

51. Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon on Virtual States in Medium Propagation

Matthew Gardhouse

05/03/2021, 15:25

52. Historizing the virtual: a promising methodology and a study of the ether

Urko Gorriñobeaskoa

05/03/2021, 16:05

54. How possible is the virtual? Lessons from the mechanical tradition

Michael Stoeltzner

12/03/2021, 14:30

55. Substitute Radiators, Virtual Oscillators, and Actual Transitions: Radiation Processes in the Old Quantum Theory and Quantum Mechanics (1913–1927)

Alexander Blum, Martin Jähnert

12/03/2021, 15:25

56. “The new conception of the postulates:” Virtual entities and the Bohr-Kramers-Slater reformulation of the (old) quantum theory

Daniel Jon Mitchell

12/03/2021, 16:05

59. Material and virtual agents of heredity, 1870 to 1930

Mike Buttolph

19/03/2021, 15:15

60. False Mathematical Entities and Aesthetic Economic Explanations as Virtual Matters

Gonzalo Carrión, Sandra Visokolskis

19/03/2021, 15:55

61. The Ghost in the Machine: Emergent Metaphors of ‘Virtual’ and ‘Artificial’ in Computer Science in the 1950s

Joseph Wilson

19/03/2021, 16:50

62. What’s a virtual entity?

Alexandre Declos

19/03/2021, 17:30

63. Getting to know “the language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”. Narratives and representations of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the 1930s

Markus Ehberger

26/03/2021, 14:28

64. Virtuality in nuclear physics (1930s–1940s): the many meanings of an emerging concept

Jean-Philippe Martinez

26/03/2021, 15:25

65. Have virtual particles any virtue?

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond