MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Event

Nov 6, 2019
Hermann Weyl's Neighbourhoods: "Spaces" in Mathematics, Physics, Subjectivity, and Historiography

The talk will be about the interdisciplinary prominence of the concept of neighbourhood ("Umgebung") in the work of Weyl. It tracks different appearances of this notion in the contexts of mathematics, physics, and the theory of subjectivity, and describes them as related of one another. The historical and systematic background of this continuous reliance on (variations of) the concept of neighbourhood is traced back in part to Weyl's own "philosophical neighbourhood"; that is, to his own interaction with philosophers, especially with Fritz Medicus who introduced Weyl to the work of Fichte.

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Address
MPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room
Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room
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All welcome, no registration required.

About This Series

The seminar series of the Research Group “Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program” runs once a month, usually on a Monday at 14:30 in the seminar room of the Villa (Harnackstraße 5). The talks deal primarily with the history, philosophy, and foundations of modern (post-WWII) physics or with wider epistemological questions related to the work of the group. There are no pre-circulated papers.

Full program of the seminar series, Research Group “Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program”
2019-11-06T14:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2019-11-06 14:00:00 2019-11-06 16:00:00 Hermann Weyl's Neighbourhoods: "Spaces" in Mathematics, Physics, Subjectivity, and Historiography The talk will be about the interdisciplinary prominence of the concept of neighbourhood ("Umgebung") in the work of Weyl. It tracks different appearances of this notion in the contexts of mathematics, physics, and the theory of subjectivity, and describes them as related of one another. The historical and systematic background of this continuous reliance on (variations of) the concept of neighbourhood is traced back in part to Weyl's own "philosophical neighbourhood"; that is, to his own interaction with philosophers, especially with Fritz Medicus who introduced Weyl to the work of Fichte. MPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room Alexander Blum Alexander Blum Europe/Berlin public