Carlo Rovelli ON THE EQUALITY OF ALL THINGS with Nigel Warburton

Name: Carlo Rovelli ON THE EQUALITY OF ALL THINGS with Nigel Warburton
Start: 2026-09-23T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-09-23T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Examination Schools, University of Oxford

Schedule

Wed Sep 23 2026 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Examination Schools, University of Oxford | Oxford, EN

Internationally acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli joins us to talk about his latest book in an evening at the Examination Schools on High St
About this Event

On the Equality of All Things

What do we really know about the world? Acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli guides us through the speculative depths of modern physics to explore what our knowledge tells us about the strangeness of reality. Be unafraid to test its limits and prepare to lose your moorings, as he suggests there may be no final foundation to life. We live in a universe where electrons and minds, stones and laws, judgements and galaxies are notions that illuminate each other, and reality is better understood as a set of reflections, revealing the equality of all things.

Recalling the ancient story of the philosopher who dreamt that he was a butterfly and, on waking, wonders if it wasn’t the butterfly who had dreamt it was the philosopher, Rovelli invites us to recognise that our knowledge is coherent but also uncertain and circular. There may be no foundations, no hierarchies, but we, who are woven together by thoughts and desires, emotions and dreams, are at one with all things in the world. We are, in a deep sense, at home.

Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to quantum theory and the physics of space and time. He directs a Quantum Gravity research group in Marseille, France. He is an internationally acclaimed writer, whose books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, Helgoland and White Holes, have been number one bestsellers around the world and translated into over forty languages, rendering the insights of contemporary physics accessible to wide audiences.

Nigel Warburton

Nigel Warburton is an author and public philosopher. He is co-host of the podcast 'Philosophy Bites' alongside David Edmonds and the author of many books including the bestselling 'A Little History of Philosophy'. He has also been the host of Blackwell Oxford's 'Philosophy in the Bookshop' series of events since 2014.