History and Philosophy of Contemporary Theoretical Physics

Sebastian De Haro - "Noether’s Theorems and Energy in General Relativity"
Felix Klein - "Zu Hilberts erster Note über die Grundlagen der Physik"
Guest Expert: Sebastian De Haro

Donald Salisbury, Kurt Sundermeyer - "Léon Rosenfeld’s general theory of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics“
Guest Experts: Donald Salisbury, Kurt Sundermeyer

Michel Janssen - "Drawing the line between kinematics and dynamics in special relativity"
Guest Expert: Michel Janssen

Giora Hon and Bernard Goldstein (2022): Interpretation in Electrodynamics, Atomic Theory, and Quantum Mechanics
J.C. Maxwell (1873): Faraday 
E. Schrödinger (1926). On the relation between the quantum mechanics of Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan, and that of Schrödinger.
Guest expert : Giora Hon

Fraser and Koberinski (2016), "The Higgs mechanism and superconductivity: A case study of formal analogies" and Anderson (1963) "Plasmons, Gauge Invariance, and Mass"
Guests: Doreen Fraser and Adam Koberinski 

Postponed
Erik Curiel on Howard Stein's "On the Notion of Field in Newton, Maxwell and Beyond"
and Maxwell's "Faraday's Lines" and "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field"
 
Instructions:
 
Stein paper:
1. Beginning up to Part II section 3 (pp. 264-282)
2. Part III (pp. 285-287)
 
Maxwell "Faraday's Lines":
1. Introduction up to section "Theory of Dielectrics" (pp. 155-177 in Maxwell's *Scientific Papers*)
2. Part II, pp. 188-195 (up to paragraph starting "Before entering...")
3. Part II, pp. 202 (paragraph starting "If a_1 b_1 c_1 represent the components...") to 209 (up to section "Examples")

Maxwell's "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field":
1. All of Part I (paragraphs 1-20)
2. Part II, paragraphs 47-52
3. All of Part III (paragraphs 53-75)
 
Strongly suggested: Stein, "Subtler forms of matter"

Other suggested readings:
1. Maxwell's "On Action at a Distance"
2. Stein's "How does physics bear upon metaphysics; and why did Plato hold that philosophy cannot be written down?"

Ben-Menahem (2001): Poincaré and some of his critics, and Henri Poincaré: Science and Hypothsis (1905, chp.  3 + a bit from chp. 4).
Guest: Yemima Ben-Menahem

Heilbron, Rovelli - "Matrix Mechanics Mis-Prized: Max Born's Belated Nobelization"
Guest: Carlo Rovelli

Falconer - „Vortices and atoms in the Maxwellian era“
Primary source: Section 'On the Theory of Vortex Atoms' from Maxwell's 1875 Encylopaedia Britannica article, 'Atom': 
https://archive.org/details/scientificpapers02maxwuoft/page/466/mode/2up...
Guest: Isobel Falconer

Marco Giovanelli, (2022) `Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori' and Ernst cassirer (1936/1956) `Determinism and indeterminism in modern physics', chp 5: Statement of Principles. 
Guest: Marco Giovanelli
 

Heisenberg - "Quantum-theoretical re-interpretations of kinematic and mechanical relations" (Z. Phys, 1925);
Blum, Jähnert, Lehner, Renn - "Translation as heuristics: Heisenberg's turn to matrix mechanics" (Studies, 2017);
Guest: Alexander Blum

Ernst Mach, The Science of Mechanics (Appendix XX); Karim Thébault, On Mach on Time (2021)
Guest: Karim Thébault
 

Canceled
Henri Poincaré: Science and Hypothsis (1905, chp.  3 + a bit from chp. 4); Yemima Ben-Menahem: Poincaré and some of his critics (2001).
Guest: Yemima Ben-Menahem

"Why Was It Schrödinger Who Developed de Broglie's Ideas?" \ V. V. Raman and Paul Forman
Guest: Paul Forman 
 

The Einstein-Klein 1918 correspondence

"Mie's Theory of Matter and Gravitation" by C. Smeenk and C. Martin and "Foundations of a Theory of Matter (excerpts)" by G. Mie as in "The Genesis of General Relativity - Sources and Interpretations" edited by M. Janssen, J. Norton, J. Renn, T. Sauer and J. Stachel (Springer, 2007), https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-4000-9

* UPDATE: This meeting has been canceled. We will discuss Mie theory next month
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"Mie's Theory of Matter and Gravitation" by C. Smeenk and C. Martin and "Foundations of a Theory of Matter (excerpts)" by G. Mie as in "The Genesis of General Relativity - Sources and Interpretations" edited by M. Janssen, J. Norton, J. Renn, T. Sauer and J. Stachel (Springer, 2007), https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-4000-9

In our next meeting we will focus on the influence of Weyl (1918) on the development of later gravitational theories, and discuss Erhard Scholz's paper "Gauging the spacetime metric – looking back and forth a century later". (Attached below)

Weyl's "Elektron und Gravitation", as translated by O'Raifeartaigh in "The Dawning of Gauge Theory"

Please find here Albert Einstein's two papers on Teleparallelism from 1928, "Riemann-Geometrie mit Aufrechterhaltung des Begriffes des Fernparallelismus" and "Neue Möglichkeit für eine einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität" (both published in Sitzungsberichte der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, p.217-221, p.224-227 resp.), as translated to English by David Delphenich (self-published at https://www.neo-classical-physics.info/spacetime-structure.html).