American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2017: New Orleans, La)
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time [sound recording], 2017 March 13.
Audio recording of session A40 of the March 2017 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 2017. This session was chaired by Alan Chodos, APS Forum on History of Physics. Talks (and speakers) include: "Einstein and Time in Physics and Philosophy" (Jimena Canales); "Bergson vs. Einstein: is there really a philosopher's time?" (Jean Bricmont); "About Time. Physics, Philosophy and the Battle Between Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson" (Adam Frank); "What if Bergson Won?" (Joseph Martin); "Einstein's Phobia of Philosophy" (Alberto Martinez). Topics discussed include Albert Einstein, Henri Bergson, theory of relativity, philosophy.
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Philosophy
Relativity (Physics)
Bricmont, J. (Jean)
Canales, Jimena,
Chodos, Alan.
Frank, Adam, 1962-
Martin, Joseph
Martinez, Alberto A.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA