Eddy Keming Chen
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  • 2022 Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science Annual Conference in Bristol, UK. (chair of the program committee)
  • Science Without Numbers, 40 Years Later, Nov 5-6, 2020. (co-organized with Thomas Barrett)
  • UCSD Philosophy of Physics Reading Group, 2019-current. (co-organized with Craig Callender)
  • Metro Area Philosophy of Science Lectures Series (MAPS). (past organizer)
  • Rutgers Foundations of Probability Seminar. (co-organized with Harry Crane) 
  • ​Rutgers-Columbia Workshop on Metaphysics of Science: Quantum Field Theories, May 17-18, 2018. (co-organizer with Sebastien Rivat and Isaac Wilhelm)
  • Rutgers Workshop on Structural Realism and Metaphysics of Science, May 18-19, 2017. (organizer)
  • Rutgers Workshop on Multiverse, Theodicy, and Fine-Tuning, Jun 10-11, 2016. (co-organizer with Dean Zimmerman) 
  • Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy, Apr 13, 2018. (rapporteur)
  • Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy, Apr 15, 2016 (rapporteur - summary)

​​Selected Talks

Lecture Series on Laws of Physics
  • Wuhan University, Sep 2023

The Simplicity of Physical Laws
  • Pacific APA, Apr 2023
  • Simon Fraser University, Mar 2023
  • Harvard Foundations of Physics Seminar, Dec 2022
  • CalTech Philosophy of Physics Group, Oct 2022
  • University of Western Ontario Philosophy of Physics Group, Oct 2022

Governing without a Fundamental Direction of Time: Minimal Primitivism about Laws of Nature
  • CLE Permanent Seminar in Metaphysics, University of Campinas, Jul 2022
  • Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium, Jun 2022
  • Research Group in Metaphysic and the Geneva Symmetry Group, Oct 2021
  • Metro Area Philosophy of Science Group, Oct 2021
  • CalTech Philosophy of Physics Group, Oct 2021
  • Metaphysics Reading Group, Rutgers University, Oct 2021

Strong Determinism
  • Laws of Nature Workshop, Metro Area Philosophy of Science Group, Apr 2023
  • ​Johns Hopkins University, Apr 2023
  • University of British Columbia, Mar 2023
  • UCLA, Mar 2023
  • Tel Aviv Conference on the Many-Worlds Interpretation, Oct 2022
  • UC Riverside, May 2022
  • UC Irvine Logic and Philosophy of Science, May 2022
  • ​Surrey University Quantum Foundations Center, Oct 2021
  • California Quantum Interpretations Network, Sep 2021

The Wentaculus: Density Matrix Realism Meets the Arrow of Time
  • Graduate Seminar in Philosophy of Physics, Rutgers University, Apr 2022
  • Oxford University Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar, Jan 2021​
  • Density Matrix Realism Workshop, FraMEPhys, University of Birmingham, Nov 2020

Nomic Vagueness
  • Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting, Nov 2021
  • Pontifical University of St. Thomas Colloquium Series, Jan 2021
  • CalTech philosophy of physics reading group, May 2020
  • Delta 13 Workshop on Logic, May 2020
  • University of Illinois, Chicago, Feb 2020
  • Columbia University Foundations of Physics Conference, Nov 2019
  • Early Career Philosophy of Physics Workshop, City College of New York, May 2019

The Cosmic Void and Non-Fundamental Facts
  • Central APA Symposium on "Metaphysics Without Ontology," Feb 2020

Time's Arrow in a Quantum Universe
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, University of Tübingen. Mar 2019
  • Philosophy of Cosmology Session, German Physical Society. Mar 2019
  • Philosophy of Time Association, Central APA. Feb 2019
  • Philosophy of Science Association. Nov 2018
  • Western Ontario Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Student Conference. Jun 2018

Comparativism about the Mind: From Metaphysics of Quantities to the Nature of Mentality
  •  Rutgers-Bochum Workshop in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Bochum. Mar 2019 
  • ​24th World Congress in Philosophy. Aug 2018

An Intrinsic Theory of Quantum Mechanics: Progress in Field's Nominalistic Program, Part I
  • Bristol Center for Science and Philosophy. Sep 2016
  • Pacific APA Symposium, San Diego. Mar 2018
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Our Fundamental Physical Space and the Metaphysics of the Wave Function
  • Beyond Spacetime Project, UIC. Mar 2016
  • Central APA Symposium, Chicago. Mar 2016
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Space-Time Emergence: A Representational Theory
  • Philosophy of Cosmology Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center. May 2017

​The Best Summary of the Quantum World
  • 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS), University of Helsinki. Aug 2015

Our Knowledge of the Past: Some Puzzles about Time's Arrow and Self-Locating Probabilities.
  • Caltech HPS Seminar Series. Apr 2017
  • 3rd Boulder Workshop in Formal Value Theory. Mar 2018
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Great Expectations: Introducing Surreal Decision Theory (with Daniel Rubio)
  • Princeton Workshop on Infinite Values. Nov 2015 (Video)
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Comments on Alan Hájek​'s "The Revenge of Pascal, Petersburg, Pasadena, and Paul" [Slides]
  • Workshop on Cognitive Values, CU Boulder. May 2017

Comments on Ned Hall's "Causation and the Aim of Inquiry" [Notes]
  • Philosophy Department Colloquium, Rutgers. Feb 2016
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