eidos

the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva

eidos -- the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva & CUSO (Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale)

Time and Explanation

University of Geneva, 14th-17th September 2011

Location: Salle B112, Uni Bastions, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Address of the conference venue, restaurants and hotels.

Conference Email address: time.explain@gmail.com

Programme (printable version)

Wednesday, 14/09

9.00-9.15 Welcome

09.15-10.45 Stephan Torre, The Open Future and Modal Analysis

11.15-12.45 Michael De, The Open Future and Likelihood

Lunch at Restaurant Universitaire Uni Dufour (map)

14.00-15.30 David Braddon-Mitchell, Does it Matter if we don't know it's Now Now?

15.45-17.15 Nathan Oaklander, Temporal Realism and the R-theory of Time

19.00 Dinner: Fondue at the Bains des Pâquis (map)

Thursday, 15/09

09.00-10.30 Oliver Pooley, Relativity and the Passage of Time

11.00-12.30 Carl Hoefer, Time and the Unfolding of Events

Lunch at Restaurant Universitaire Uni Dufour (map)

14.00-15.30 Steven Savitt, How Fast Time Passes

15.45-17.15 Mark Shumelda, Fundamental and Geometric Time in Quantum Gravity

20.00 Conference Dinner at the Restaurant Spaghetti doro (map)

Friday, 16/09

09.00-10.30 Thomas Crisp, Temporal Passage: A Powers Account

11.00-12.30 Ulrich Meyer, What is Absolute Time?

Lunch at Restaurant Universitaire Uni Dufour (map)

14.00-15.30 Kristie Miller, On our Concept of Time and the Modal Status of the A and B Theory

15.45-17.15 Dean Zimmerman, TBA

17.30-19.00 Phil Dowe, A and B Theories of Closed Time

20.30 Dinner at the Café Gallay (map)

Saturday, 17/09

09.00-10.30 Geurt Sengers, On Triviality and the Tenses of Existence

11.00-12.30 Tero Tulenheimo, Tensed Facts Reshaped

Organising Committee: Emiliano Boccardi (University of Fribourg); Fabrice Correia (University of Geneva); Natalja Deng (University of Geneva); Ghislain Guigon (University of Geneva)

See also the conference announcement on philosophie.ch.

 
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