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Chair: Christian Wuethrich (Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego)
10:40 - Dennis Dieks (Department of History and Foundations of Science, Utrecht University) The Adolescence of Relativity: From Einstein to Minkowski 11:30 - Michel Janssen and Robert Rynasiewicz (University of Minnesota and Johns Hopkins University) Minkowski and the development of relativistic mechanics 12:20 - Joseph K. Cosgrove (Department of Philosophy, Providence College) Husserl, Jacob Klein, and Minkowski Space-Time 13:10 - 14:30 Lunch break |
Chair: Paul O'Hara (Department of Mathematics, Northeastern Illinois University)
10:40 - Wolfgang Pietsch (Department of Philosophy of Science, Universität Augsburg) Reversibility reconsidered – a role for history 11:30 - Eleanor Knox (New College, Oxford University) General Relativity by another name? A look at Teleparallel Gravity 12:20 - Hanoch Ben-Yami (Central European University) Bacward-light-cone simultaneity, with special application to the twin paradox 13:10 - 14:30 Lunch break |
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Chair: John Corbett (Department of Mathematics, Macquarie University, Australia)
16:10 - John Earman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) Reassessing the Prospects of C. D. Broad's Growing Block Model of the Universe 17:00 - Vesselin Petkov (Concordia University) Can the Growing Block Model of the Universe Save the Objectivity of Becoming? 17:50 - Daniel Peterson and Michael Silberstein (Swarthmore College and Department of Philosophy, Elizabethtown College) Relativity of Simultaneity and Eternalism: In Defense of Blockworld |
Chair: Edward Slowik (Department of Philosophy, Winona State University)
16:10 - Erik Curiel On the Existence of Spacetime Structure 17:00 - Gordon Belot (Department of Philosophy, New York University) Geometric Possibility 17:50 - Mark Shumelda (Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto) Not the hole story: relationalism and loop quantum gravity |
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Chair: Maureen Donnelly (Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo)
10:40 - Richard T. W. Arthur (Department of Philosophy, McMaster University) Minkowski's Proper Time and the Clock Hypothesis 11:30 - Mauro Dorato (Department of Philosophy, University of Rome Three) Should we represent the experienced present in Minkowski spacetime? 12:20 - Yuri Balashov (Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia) Coexistence in Minkowski Spacetime 13:10 - 14:30 Lunch break Chair: W.M. Stuckey (Department of Physics, Elizabethtown College) 14:30 - Graham Nerlich (University of Adelaide) Why spacetime is not a hidden cause: a realist story 15:20 - Robert DiSalle (Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario) Minkowski's space-time and the interpretation of physical theory 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break 16:40 - Nick Huggett (Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago) (Again) A Philosopher Looks at String Theory 17:30 - Christian Wuethrich (Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego) No presentism in quantum gravity |
Chair: James Overduin (Gravity Probe B Theory Group, Stanford University)
10:40 - Alfonso Rueda (Department of Electrical Engineering, California State University Long Beach) Inertia and the physical medium pervading Minkowski spacetime 11:30 - Paul O'Hara (Department of Mathematics, Northeastern Illinois University) The Metrics of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics 12:20 - John Corbett1, Thomas Durt2 (1Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Australia; 2TENA-TONA Free University of Brussels) Quantum real number Minkowski spacetime 13:10 - 14:30 Lunch break Chair: Jonathan Bain (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York) 14:30 - Stephen N. Lyle Rigidity in Relativity 15:20 - Michael Ibison (Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin) A New Case for Direct Action 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break 16:40 - James Overduin (Gravity Probe B Theory Group, Stanford University) The Experimental Verdict on Spacetime from Gravity Probe B |
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Chair: Joseph K. Cosgrove (Department of Philosophy, Providence College)
10:40 - Hans H. Grelland (Quantum Chemistry and Physics, University of Agder) Husserl, Einstein, Weyl, and the Concepts of Space, Time, and Space-Time 11:30 - Ronny Desmet (Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) About "Minkowski's Influence on Whitehead" 12:20 - James Mattingly (Philosophy Department, Georgetown University) Weyl's refutation of conventionalism 13:10 - 14:30 Lunch break Chair: Wolfgang Pietsch (Department of Philosophy of Science, Universität Augsburg) 14:30 - Flavia Padovani (Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva) Topologies of Time in the 1920s: Reichenbach, Carnap, Lewin 15:20 - Edward Slowik (Department of Philosophy, Winona State University) The fate of mathematical place: ontology, objectivity, and the theory of lived-space from Husserl to Casey 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break 16:40 - Maureen Donnelly (Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo) Region-Relative Parthood 17:30 - Bradford Skow (Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts) Local and Global Relativity Principles |
Chair: Alfonso Rueda (Department of Electrical Engineering, California State University Long Beach)
10:40 - Jonathan Bain (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York) Relativity and Quantum Field Theory 11:30 - Michael Silberstein1 and W.M. Stuckey2 (1Department of Philosophy and 2Department of Physics, Elizabethtown College and Department of Physics, Elizabethtown College) RBW: an Acausal Conspiracy Theory 13:10 - 14:30 Lunch break Chair: Michael Ibison (Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin) 14:30 - Hilary Greaves (Philosophy Department, Rutgers University) How can there be a CPT theorem? 15:20 - Juan Ferret (Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso) The Impact of the Energy-Time Indeterminacy Relation on the Ontology of Spacetime 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break 16:40 - Jan Faye (Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen) What Mirrors the Mirror? Space-Time Structure as an Abstract Entity 17:30 - Dennis Lehmkuhl (Oxford University) Geometrization(s) of Matter |
Speaker: Vesselin Petkov (Concordia University)