Tübingen Forum für Wissenschaftskulturen · 24.–26. Oktober 2025
Das achte Seminar widmete sich dem Thema Information in der Physik. Englischsprachige Fachvorträge wurden durch deutschsprachige, moderierte Kleingruppendiskussionen und eine Podiumsdiskussion zur Frage Was ist Philosophie der Physik? ergänzt.
Recently, several philosophers and physicists have increasingly noticed the hegemony of unitarity in the black hole information loss discourse and are challenging its legitimacy in the face of the measurement problem. The speaker argues that information-restoring solutions can be interpretation-neutral.
There has been considerable excitement around the idea that information provides a new unifying idea in the foundations of physics. What does it even mean to claim that something is physically fundamental? One immediate lesson: there is no reason to believe that information is ontologically fundamental.
A systematic analysis of how 'entropy' and 'information' have been used in classical thermal physics since the 1930s.
| Fr 15:30–16:15 | Einführung: Was ist Philosophie der Physik? |
| Fr 16:15–17:45 | Saakshi Dulani: Black Hole Information Loss |
| Fr 18:00–19:30 | Chris Timpson: Is Information Fundamental in Physics? |
| Sa 9:00–10:30 | Javier Anta: Disentangling entropy and information |
| Sa 11:00–12:30 | Diskussionsgruppen |
| Sa 14:00–15:30 | Podiumsdiskussion: Was ist Philosophie der Physik? |
| Sa 16:00–17:30 | Studierendenvorträge |
| So 9:00–10:30 | Benjamin Jantzen: Information and biological intelligence |
| So 11:00–12:30 | Diskussionsgruppen |