Valeria Chasova made a presentation at the Formal Philosophy workshop

On February 16, a meeting of the theoretical workshop "Formal Philosophy" was held. Valeria Chasova made a presentation "Ontology of symmetries: foundations, history and systematization".

Abstract

Symmetry is the invariance of one when the other is transformed. For example, saving the content when changing the form. Physical theories are full of theoretical symmetries. Due to this, gravitational waves and the Higgs boson were predicted. However, it is still not clear how exactly theoretical symmetries relate to the world around us. I am going to tell you in more detail about the ways physical theories are arranged, what kinds of theoretical symmetries can be found there, what the different ways they relate to the world are and how we can systematize research in this area.