This seminar is co-taught by Maria Nørgaard, Baptiste Le Bihan, and Christian Wüthrich.

The philosophy of physics deals with methodological, epistemological, and metaphysical issues in physics. This seminar has the dual purpose of systematically introducing the background necessary to do research in philosophy of physics as well as discussing current research in the field.

This seminar is part of the Geneva Symmetry Group's research seminar (https://genevasymmetrygroup.wordpress.com/), where we either discuss a new paper or work in progress each week or have an external speaker give a research seminar. Students attending this seminar will be expected to participate actively in the discussions and to write a paper on a topic of their choice within the field of philosophy of physics.

This seminar will be conducted entirely in English, though papers may be submitted in French if desired.

If this seminar is taken for credit, please let us know. You will have to fulfill requirements, depending on the module for which you are taking this course. For credit in philosophy:

MA6:

- travail écrit de recherche avec soutenance (env. 25 pages, 50'000 signes)

MA7:

- travail écrit de recherche (env. 12 pages, 24'000 signes) et présentation orale durant le séminaire

MA8:

- travail écrit de recherche (env. 12 pages, 24'000 signes) ou présentation orale durant le séminaire

Contact us if you need credit in physics or in another programme.

Our expectation is that everyone prepares the assigned readings ahead of time and actively participates in the seminar.

In its Statement on artificial intelligence, the University of Geneva clearly states that

In their scientific publications and creations, researchers and students are required to respect the rules and principles governing scientific integrity, in particular the prohibition of plagiarism, and to comply with good scientific practice.

This good scientific practice demands that the use of generative AI "must always be explicitly agreed upon with the research supervisor and must be methodologically describable" (Guidebook on Generative Artificial Intelligence, p. 14) because they "raise issues of plagiarism" (ibid.). Hence, "[w]riting tasks should not be delegated to the tool" (ibid.). In other words, it is impermissible to use ChatGPT or similar tools in the writing of seminar papers or theses, although other uses may be permissible if agreed upon with us beforehand.

All papers to be read will be made available on this seminar's moodle page.

This is the schedule for the seminar. It is subject to adjustment. External speakers are marked in blue.

Date	Presenter(s), title
17.09.	Niels Linnemann and Robert Michels
24.09.	Géraldine Haack (Group de Physique Appliquée, Geneva)
01.10.	Matěj Krátký
08.10.
15.10.
22.10.	Chris Wüthrich
29.10.	Clara Toupanse (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
05.11.	No seminar (semaine de lecture)
12.11.	The Age of the Bookworm (workshop organised by Niels Linnemann and Eliot du Sordet)
19.11.
26.11.	Maria Nørgaard
03.12.	Vincent Ardourel (IHPST Paris)
10.12.	Sébastien Rivat (Aix-Marseille University)
17.12.

Other Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) events this fall semester include:

• 15-16 September: Workshop on Singularities, organised by Marta Pedroni and Chris Wüthrich
• 11 November: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, organised by Baptiste Le Bihan and Lucy James
• 11-12 November: The Age of the Bookworm, organised by Niels Linnemann and Eliot du Sordet
• 9 December: TBA, talk by Sebastién Rivat