Chanced upon this evocative piece at Lake Lugano: "The Death of Socrates", Mark Antokowski (replica).
I am also organizing a book workshop for my colleague Jacob Stegenga's new book, Heart of Science. We have a great line-up of commentators & I am looking forward to meeting everyone! It will take place on 21 July, before APSA26. Register at: tinyurl.com/heartofscience
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Got to share some new work on integrable quantum statistical mechanics (w/ @yichenluo.bsky.social) and learnt so much talking and listening to others at the Lugano workshop on stat mech & info theory! Lugano is such a beautiful city and I hope to be back soon.
Together w/ @miguelohn.bsky.social, I present the 2nd Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop! We'll trace equilibrium reasoning from Archimedes, (post-)Newton, classical thermo, early QM, GR, to quantum thermo, bio, & econs.
Abstracts: www.eugenechua.com/ftg2026-find...
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Looking forward to 2-and-a-half talks next week w/ @yichenluo.bsky.social at PKU & CASIP! Yichen will share our current work on analogies and disanalogies between integrable quantum stat mech and classical TD, while I'll speak on the "work" concept in quantum TD, and classical TD in relativity.
My paper with @yichenluo.bsky.social is up on @thebjps.bsky.social! We develop some ways physicists check their models without "full reversal" or "full representation".
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Happy to share that my paper "Physical Coherence and Time's Emergence" was accepted in Synthese! Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/CHUPCA-6
I provide a thin necessary criterion for successful emergence of time, building on my works on semiclassical & thermal time.
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Registration for the 1st conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association is now open! Keynotes feature Craig Callender, @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social, @kevinzollman.com & 1st winner of APSA early career scholar essay prize (tbd). Excited to host everyone in SG! www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...
New from the BJPS Review of Books:
Saving Science from Quantum Mechanics
– Emily Adlam
Reviewed by Steven French
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
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This past week, @yichenluo.bsky.social & I shared our works in foundations of quantum & relativistic thermodynamics w/ colleagues at Peking University & the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Philosophy. It was lovely to learn from the phil sci & physics community there!
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2026 Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop: Finding Balance
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
27-28 July 2026
Venue: NTU School of Humanities, Seminar Room 9
Organizers: Eugene Y. S. Chua (N...
It is often said that time vanishes in quantum gravity. One general approach to quantum gravity accepts this fundamental timelessness but seeks to derive time’s emergence at a non-fundamental level. T...
Just accepted:
De-idealizing De-idealization: Beyond Full Reversal
– Yichen Luo & Eugene Y S Chua
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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