Program
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First Day - Monday, June 24
8.45-9.00 Introduction 9.00-10.00 Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers) - The Nature of Spatiotemporal Perspectives
Chair: Damiano Costa (USI)
10.00-10.15 Coffee Break 10.15-11.15 Cristian Lopez & Michael Esfeld (Lausanne)
Relational Primitivism about the Direction of Time
Chair: Marco Forgione
Gerardo Viera (Sheffield)
Perception and the Naïve Conception of Time
Chair: Natalja Deng
Martin Lipman (Leiden)
Standpoint Pluralism and the Problem of Tensed Token Truths
Chair: Antony Eagle
11.20-12.20 Elias Okon (UNAM)
Objective Collapses and the Thermodynamic Arrow of Time
Chair: Heather Demarest
Vincent Grandjean (Zurich)
Diachronic Indeterminacy
Chair: Paul McKarris
Giacomo Andreoletti (Salzburg)
Acting in the Garden of the Forking Paths
Chair: Florian Fisher
12.20-14.00 Lunch Break 14.00-15.00 Oliver Pooley (Oxford) - Nomic presentism, relativity, and rates of change
Chair: Adrian Bardon
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break 15.15-16.15 Mayra Moreira (Minas Gerais)
Quantum Causal Processes and the Arrow of Time
Chair: Cristian Lopez
Rachel Russell (UC Dublin)
The Deflationist's Error
Chair: Raul Saucedo
Christabel Cane (UC London)
The Problems of Temporary Intrinsics
Chair: Tommaso Soriani
16.20-17.20 Kevin Coffey (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Is Temporal Structure Curved in Newtonian Gravitation Theory?
Chair: Alison Fernandes
Natalja Deng (Yonsei)
An Experience-Based Interpretation of the A versus B Distinction
Chair: Ulrich Meyer
Carlo Rossi Fernandez (Santiago)
Processes, Particularity, and the Dynamic Nature of Reality
Chair: Giacomo Andreoletti
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Second Day - Tuesday, June 25
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)
12.20-14.00 Lunch Break 14.00-15.00 Laurie Paul (Yale) - Primitive persistence
Chair: Marta Pedroni
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break 15.15-16.15 Marco Forgione (Milan)
Causal Set Theory and Growing Block? Not Quite
Chair: Marco Marabello
Wen Yu (Sydney)
Temporal Biases as Person Biases
Chair: Brittany Gentry
Patrick Dawson (UC Dublin)
A-Theorists Should Take Passage to be Fundamentally Directionless
Chair: Emanuele Tullio
16.20-17.20 Heather Demarest (Colorado, Boulder)
Time-Asymmetric Law of Increasing Complexity
Chair: Kevin Coffey
Andrea Iacona (Turin) & Samuele Iaquinto (Eastern Piedmount)
Quantitative Supervaluationism
Chair: Claudio Calosi
Lisa Leininger (Hobart & William Smith)
What Should Become of Absolute Becoming? The Future of the Dynamic Nature of Time
Chair: Claudia Matus Canovas
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Third Day - Wednesday, June 26
9.00-10.00 Kristie Miller (Sydney) - Exploring People's Normative Judgements About Future Bias and The Temporal Value Asymmetry
Chair: David Ingram
10.00-10.15 Coffee Break 10.15-11.15 Marta Bielinska (Oxford)
Branching Time and Real Chance
Chair: Mayra Moreira
Nihel Jhou (National Taiwan)
Is a Time Machin an Amnesia (and Person Splitting) Machine?
Chair: Brigitte Everett
Behadir Eker (Tübingen)
Situations, Change, Indeterminacy
Chair: Vincent Grandjean
11.20-12.20 Alison Fernandes (TC Dublin)
Two Projects on the Direction of Time
Chair: Lisa Leininger
Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest)
Transcendental Arguments in Philosophy of Time
Chair: Gerardo Viera
Siddhant Das (Munich)
TBA
Chair: Giuliano Torrengo
14.00-... Free afternoon -
Fourth Day - Thursday, June 27
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)
12.20-14.00 Lunch Break 14.00-15.00 Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke College) - Metaphysical Arguments from Temporal Experience
Chair: TBD
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break 15.15-16.15 Athamos Stradis (King's College, London)
Present Records of the Past Hypothesis
Chair: Elias Okon
Brittany Gentry (Utah State)
Newtonian Time from Timeless Dynamics
Chair: James Norton
Brigitte Everett (Sydney)
Passage Illusionism's Intelligibility Problem and Deflationism
Chair: Jack Shardlow
16.20-17.20 Antony Eagle (Adelaide)
Against Advanced Temporalising
Chair: Florian Fisher
Raul Saucedo (Colorado, Boulder)
The Elamite Picture of Reality
Chair: Francisca Silva
Ulrich Meyer (Colgate)
Velocity and Necessity
Chair: Carlo Rossi Fernandez
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Fifth Day - Friday, June 28
9.00-10.00 Christian Wüthrich - Quantum gravity between becoming and eternalism
Chair: Giuliano Torrengo
10.00-10.15 Coffee Break 10.15-11.15 Maria Nørgaard (Geneva)
A Novel Approach to Quantum Persistence
Chair: Athamos Stradis
Emanuele Tullio (Central European)
The Disclosing Window
Chair: Christabel Cane
Nicholas Rimell (CU Hong Kong)
A Pairing Problem for Minimal A-Theorists (and Beyond)
Chair: Martin Lipman
11.20-12.20 Emily Thomas (Durham) - Victorian Concepts of Time... and Sexism
Chair: Claudio Calosi
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
Jack Shardlow (Edinburgh)
Motion(less) Pictures and Temporal Appearances
Chair: Rachel Russell
Francisca Silva (St. Andrews)
Truth Must Presently Be Grounded
Chair: Patrick Dawson
16.20-17.20 Jenann Ismael (John Hopkins) - "The Block Universe" is nonsense
Chair: Cristian Mariani
