Month: November 2016

9 June: Sara Bernstein (Notre Dame) — “Temporal Passage and Time Travel” Sala Enzo Paci, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 15:00-18:00. Abstract: This talk explores how and whether a commitment to temporal passage affects the plausibility of a commitment to the possibility of time

8 June: Daniel Nolan (Notre Dame) — “Time and Parsimony” Sala Enzo Paci, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 16:00-18:00. Abstract: Reflections on scientific method suggest that we should value parsimony in our theories, though how much parsimony should be valued, and why it

5 April: Mauro D’Ariano (Pavia) & James Ladyman (Bristol) Sala Enzo Paci, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 15:00-18:00. — Programme: 15:00-16:00 Mauro D’Ariano – “Quantum Epistemology: Structuralism and Algorithmic Ontology“ 16:00-16:15 Break 16:15-17:15 James Ladyman – “‘Information, Physics, and Structural Realism” 17:15-18:00

29 March: Graeme A. Forbes (Kent) — “The Practical Rationality of Tralfamadorians” Sala Enzo Paci, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 15:30-17:30. Abstract: In Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s novella Slaughterhouse Five, the alien civilisation the Tralfamadorians, perceive time as ‘we perceive a panorama of the Rocky

15 March: Claudio Calosi (Neuchâtel) — “Locational Problems for Locational Endurantism” Sala Enzo Paci, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 15:00-17:00. Abstract: The paper presents a new argument against Locational Endurantism. The argument rests on a tension between two of its commitments, i.e. the

1 March: Emily Thomas (Durham) — “John Locke: Newtonian Absolutist about Time?” Sala Enzo Paci, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 15:00-17:00. Abstract: John Locke’s metaphysics of time are relatively neglected but he discussed time throughout his career, from his unpublished 1670s writings to