Arkady Plotnitsky Distinguished Professor, Literature, Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University Distinguished Professor, Philosophy and Literature, Purdue University Arkady Plotnitsky is a distinguished professor of Literature, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, and Philosophy and Literature program at Purdue University. He has published nine books, several edited or co-edited collections, and about two hundred articles on continental philosophy, Romantic and modernist literature, the philosophy of mathematics and physics, and the relationships among literature, philosophy, and science. His most recent book is Reality Without Realism: Matter, Thought, and Technology in Quantum Physics(Springer/Nature 2021). His next book Logos and Alogon: The Thinkable and The Unthinkable in Mathematics, from the Pythagoreans to the Moderns is forthcoming from Springer/Nature next year. Participant In: Metaphysics Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges… read more »
Metaphysics Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges… read more »