The RCNP members during the second day of our opening conference Impossible Triangles of Thought #rcnp2025
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Bryan Roberts standing behind a cluttered desk
Bryan Roberts urging you to be a good philosopher of physics by heeding Jeremy's call: Be a wizard! #rcnp2025
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Flavio. Background: slide on a special issue in EPJH
Flavio del Santo mentions guest editing work together with @bernalessel.bsky.social in his talk "The future of indeterminism looking at the past". #rcnp2025
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James in front of a slide: some might complain that the list is lacking... past hypothesis, hole argument, usual suspects... sorry guys you are old news.
James delivering bad news to some #rcnp2025
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James Read on the stage
What a performance! Hard to follow for many, but not so for James Read who now kicks off the "Into the future" session! #rcnp2025
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Echoing Hilbert, James Read is settling for once and for all what the 23 most important problems in philosophy of physics are #rcnp2025
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We are back after the coffee break to listen to Lena Zuchowski‘s fascinating presentation on fundamental dimensions of (dis)order. #rcnp2025
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Klaas is following up on the „Butterfield-Landsman determinism“ introduced by Hans. #rcnp2025
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We are starting the second day of our opening conference with a talk by Kerry McKenzie on one of the center‘s main themes, determinism. #rcnp2025
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The first day of our RCNP opening conference was a big success, with many inspiring talks. Here is Dennis Dieks explaining the modal interpretatie of Quantum Mechanics #rcnp2025
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Now, we'll head to Huize Heyendaal for the conference banquet! We'll continue tomorrow at 9am with Kerry McKenzie kicking off the second day of our opening. #rcnp2025
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Participants sitting in a lecture hall, Niels asking a question
Final discussion for today, amongst others, with our dear friend from Utrecht, Niels Martens, pressing Dennis for additional details and receiving surprising news (no photo of the latter, unfortunately). #rcnp2025
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Dennis Lehmkuhl pointing at a list of some of Penrose’s core results during the Renaissance of GR
Dennis Lehmkuhl situating his talk in the broader context of Penrose’s results. #rcnp2025
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Very nice discussion of Emilie's insightful presentation on visual evidence for the existence of black holes, including comments by Radboud's own expert on black holes: Heino Falcke. Next: Dennis Lehmkuhl! #rcnp2025
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Dennis Lehmkuhl presenting joint work with Juliusz Doboszewski and Christian Röken on the role of the analogy with optical lensing in Penrose's journey towards the singularity theorem, at the launch of the Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy #rcnp2025
philosophyofphysics.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....
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Emilie Skulberg and the title page of her talk on Absence as existence. Visual evidence and arguments for the existence of supermassive black holes
Dimmed lights for the next lecture by Emilie Skulberg on supermassive black holes! #rcnp2025
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Participants gathered around a Foucault pendulum
We are delighted to welcome so many friends and colleagues to our opening in Nijmegen. #rcnp2025
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Jeroen van Dongen on the right, in the background a slide on "1972: Bekenstein and Hawking at Les Houches"
Jeroen nicely stresses the collective effort behind Hawking's work on black hole radiation, amongst others his wife Jane Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein. #rcnp2025
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Lunch break is over and the roughly 70 participants are back in the lecture hall to hear Jeroen van Dongen presenting joint work with Klaas Landsman on Hawking and the history of black hole radiation. #rcnp2025
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Besides insights from the history and philosophy of physics, Jos has some very interesting stories about Bell and others who attended the Erice Conference 1989! #rcnp2025
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Jos Uffink pointing at the conference picture from Erice 1989
Can you spot familiar faces? #rcnp2025
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Now we have 4 minutes for questions. Quite a schedule! #rcnp2025
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This great act was inspired and designed by Edith de Jong #rcnp2025
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Henk, Klaas, and Carla Rita holding an impossible triangle each
Henk, Carla Rita, Silvester, and Klaas putting in the work...
Henk, Carla Rita, and Klaas showing the result: our logo, the intertwined three Penrose triangles forming Borromean rings
3.. 2.. 1.. The RCNP opens by constructing what was thought impossible! #rcnp2025
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Carla Rita Palmerino standing behind a desk, a picture of Christiaan Huygens in the background
Carla Rita Palmerino now giving a very short introduction of the history of natural philosophy. #rcnp2025
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By the way, as Klaas just mentions in his introduction, our PhD student Silvester Borsboom designed the logo showing three intertwined Penrose triangles forming Borromean rings. You can read more about it on our website. #rcnp2025
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