Ninth Annual Conference of the International Association for the Philosophy of Time (IAPT)

24-28 June 2024

 

24 June

8.00-10.00
Registration & Welcome drinks and snacks

10.00-10.15
Introduction, Room A1.05

10.15-11.15

Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers) - The Nature of Spatiotemporal Perspectives

Chair: Cristian Mariani (USI), Room A1.0511.20-12.20

Siddhant Das (Munich) - Quantum arrival-time problem and Bohmian trajectories

Chair: Heather Demarest, Room A1.05

Vincent Grandjean (Zurich)- Diachronic Indeterminacy

Chair: Federico Viglione, Room A1.03

Giacomo Andreoletti (Salzburg) - Acting in the Garden of the Forking Paths

Chair: Florian Fisher, Room A1.04

12.20-14.00
Lunch Break

14.00-15.00

Oliver Pooley (Oxford) - Nomic presentism, relativity, and rates of change

Chair: Adrian Bardon, Room A1.05


15.05-16.05

Alessandro Giordani (Cattolica Milan) - Navigating Time's Arrow: Presentism and the Dynamic Block Theory of Time

Chair: Cristian Lopez, Room A1.05

Rachel Russell (UC Dublin) - The Deflationist's Error

Chair: Raul Saucedo, Room A1.03

Christabel Cane (UC London) - The Problems of Temporary Intrinsics

Chair: Tommaso Soriani, Room A1.04

16.05-16.20
Coffee Break

16.20-17.20

Kevin Coffey (NYU Abu Dhabi) - Is Temporal Structure Curved in Newtonian Gravitation Theory?

Chair: Alison Fernandes, Room A1.05

Natalja Deng (Yonsei) - An Experience-Based Interpretation of the A versus B Distinction

Chair: Ulrich Meyer, Room A1.03

Carlo Rossi Fernandez (Santiago) - Processes, Particularity, and the Dynamic Nature of Reality

Chair: Giacomo Andreoletti, Room A1.04

17.25-18.25

Cristian Lopez (Lausanne) - Relational Primitivism about the Direction of Time

Chair: Margherita Moro, Room A1.05

Gerardo Viera (Sheffield) - Perception and the Naïve Conception of Time

Chair: Natalja Deng, Room A1.03

Martin Lipman (Leiden) - Standpoint Pluralism and the Problem of Tensed Token Truths

Chair: Antony Eagle, Room A1.04

 

25 June

9.00-12.20

Symposium I - Temporal Existence

Kit Fine (NYU) - Three dimensionalism and special relativity

Fabrice Correia (Geneva) - Persistence by Proxy

Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) - Passage in a System of Relativization

Chair: Damiano Costa (USI), Room A1.05

12.20-14.00
Lunch Break
14.00-15.00

Laurie Paul (Yale) - Primitive persistence

Chair: Marta Pedroni, Room A1.05

15.00-15.15
Coffee Break

15.15-16.15

Marco Forgione (Milan) - Causal Set Theory and Growing Block? Not Quite

Chair: Marco Marabello, Room A1.04

Wen Yu (Sydney) - Temporal Biases as Person Biases

Chair: Brittany Gentry, Room A1.03

Patrick Dawson (UC Dublin) - A-Theorists Should Take Passage to be Fundamentally Directionless

Chair: Emanuele Tullio, Room A1.05

16.20-17.20

Heather Demarest (Colorado, Boulder) - Time-Asymmetric Law of Increasing Complexity

Chair: Kevin Coffey, Room A1.04

Andrea Iacona (Turin) & Samuele Iaquinto (Eastern Piedmount) - Quantitative Supervaluationism

Chair: Claudio Calosi, Room A1.03

Lisa Leininger (Hobart & William Smith) - What Should Become of Absolute Becoming? The Future of the Dynamic Nature of Time

Chair: Enrico Cinti, Room A1.05

 

26 June 

9.00-10.00

Kristie Miller (Sydney) - Exploring People's Normative Judgements About Future Bias and The Temporal Value Asymmetry

Chair: David Ingram, Room A1.05

10.00-10.15 Coffee Break

10.15-11.15

Marta Bielinska (Oxford) - Branching Time and Real Chance

Chair: Damiano Costa, Room A1.05

Nihel Jhou (National Taiwan) - Is a Time Machin an Amnesia (and Person Splitting) Machine?

Chair: Brigitte Everett, Room A1.03

Behadir Eker (Tübingen) - Situations, Change, Indeterminacy

Chair: Vincent Grandjean, Room A1.04

11.20-12.20

Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest) - Transcendental Arguments in Philosophy of Time

Chair: Gerardo Viera, Room A1.05

Alison Fernandes (TC Dublin) - Two Projects on the Direction of Time

Chair: Lisa Leininger, Room A1.03

Claudio Calosi (Geneva/Venice) - Presence and Delegation

Chair: Giuliano Torrengo, Room A1.04

14.00-...Free afternoon 

 

27 June 

9.00-12.20

Symposium II - Time and Quantum Physics

Craig Callander (UC San Diego) - Imaginary Numbers and Time Reversal

Daniel Sudarsky (UNAM) - The relevance of conceptual problems afflicting quantum theory, to cosmology and black hole physics

Tim Maudlin (NYU) - Fundamental dynamics for quantum theory: why complex numbers

Chair: Cristian Mariani (USI), Room A1.05

12.20-14.00

Lunch Break

14.00-15.00

Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke College) - Metaphysical Arguments from Temporal Experience

Chair: Giuliano Torrengo, Room A1.05

15.00-15.15

Coffee Break

15.15-16.15

Athamos Stradis (King's College, London) - Present Records of the Past Hypothesis

Chair: Paul McKarris, Room A1.04

Brittany Gentry (Utah State) - Newtonian Time from Timeless Dynamics

Chair: James Norton, Room A1.03

Brigitte Everett (Sydney) - Passage Illusionism's Intelligibility Problem and Deflationism

Chair: Jack Shardlow, Room A1.05

16.20-17.20

Ulrich Meyer (Colgate) - Velocity and Necessity

Chair: Carlo Rossi Fernandez, Room A1.04

Raul Saucedo (Colorado, Boulder) - The Elamite Picture of Reality

Chair: Francisca Silva, Room A1.03

Antony Eagle (Adelaide) - Against Advanced Temporalising

Chair: Florian Fisher, Room A1.05

 

28 June

9.00-10.00

Christian Wüthrich - Quantum gravity between becoming and eternalism

Chair: Silvia De Bianchi, Room A1.05


10.00-10.15
Coffee Break

10.15-11.15

Maria Nørgaard (Geneva) - A Novel Approach to Quantum Persistence

Chair: Athamos Stradis, Room A1.05

Emanuele Tullio (Central European) - The Disclosing Window

Chair: Christabel Cane, Room A1.03


Nicholas Rimell (CU Hong Kong) - A Pairing Problem for Minimal A-Theorists (and Beyond)

Chair: Martin Lipman, Room A1.04

11.20-12.20

Emily Thomas (Durham) - Victorian Concepts of Time... and Sexism

Chair: Claudio Calosi, Room A1.05

12.20-14.00
Lunch Break

14.00-15.00

Board Meeting

15.00-15.15
Coffee Break

15.15-16.15

Shira Yechimovitz (Tel Aviv & Sydney) - The Problem of Direction in Dynamic Theories: What's the Difference Between Beginning and Ceasing to Exist?

Chair: Luca Gasparinetti, Room A1.04

Jack Shardlow (Edinburgh) - Motion(less) Pictures and Temporal Appearances

Chair: Rachel Russell, Room A1.03

Francisca Silva (St. Andrews) - Truth Must Presently Be Grounded

Chair: Patrick Dawson, Room A1.05

16.20-17.20

Jenann Ismael (John Hopkins) - "The Block Universe" is nonsense

Chair: Damiano Costa, Room A1.05

 

 

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