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Chair: Robert Rynasiewicz (Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University)
11:00 - Steven Savitt (Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia) Time in the Special Theory of Relativity 12:00 - Mauro Dorato (Department of Philosophy, University of Rome Three) Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in disguise? 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break |
Chair: Peter Forrest (Department of Philosophy, The University of New England, Australia)
11:00 - Jan Faye (Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication; Section of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen) Time, Abstracts, and Cosmology 12:00 - Edgar Eslava (Departmento de Filosofía, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Two ways to miss a target: Time symmetry and the cosmological arrow of time 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break |
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Chair: Richard T. W. Arthur (Department of Philosophy, McMaster University)
16:30 - Robert Rynasiewicz (Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University) Simultaneity in Spatially Closed Manifolds Admitting a Flat Lorentzian Metric 17:30 - Vesselin Petkov (Department of Philosophy, Science College, and Liberal Arts College, Concordia University) One-way Velocity of Light, Conventionality of Simultaneity, Dimensionality, and Existence |
Chair: Kent A. Peacock (Department of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge)
16:30 - Joy Christian (Perimeter Institute and University of Oxford) Heraclitean Generalization of Special Relativity 17:30 - Ludwik Kostro (Department for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, University of Gdansk, Poland) Ultrareferential physical space-time conceived as a new ether - the opinion of Albert Einstein |
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Chair: Carolyn Brighouse (Department of Philosophy, Occidental College)
11:00 - John Earman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) Why Branching Spacetime Is a Bad Idea 12:00 - Storrs McCall (Department of Philosophy, McGill University) Branching spacetime and a new interpretation of probability 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break Chair: Andrew Wayne (Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph) 14:30 - Robert DiSalle (Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario) Space-time ontology after general relativity: metaphysical vs. methodological legacies 15:30 - Christopher Smeenk (Department of Philosophy, UCLA) Gravitational Energy and Substantivalism 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - Kent A. Peacock (Department of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge) Quantum mechanics and the open future |
Chair: Jan Faye (Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication; Section of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen)
12:00 - Yuri Balashov (Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia) Enduring, Perduring and Exduring Objects in Spacetime 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break Chair: Yuri Balashov (Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia) 14:30 - Juan Ferret (Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso) The Ontological Status of Entities in Canonical Approaches to Quantum Gravity 15:30 - Alexis de Saint-Ours (Philosophy Department, University of Paris VIII) Relation and quantum gravity in the light of Simondon and Bachelard's philosophies 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - Hans Westman (Perimeter Institute) Events and observables in general relativity |
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Chair: Christopher Smeenk (Department of Philosophy, UCLA)
9:00 - Dennis Dieks (Department of History and Foundations of Science, Utrecht University) Another look at the equivalence of frames of reference in General Relativity 10:00 - Gordon Belot (Department of Philosophy, New York University) Artificial General Covariance and the Problem of Time 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - Carolyn Brighouse (Department of Philosophy, Occidental College)Understanding Indeterminism 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break Chair: Joy Christian (Perimeter Institute and University of Oxford) 14:00 - Oliver Pooley (Oriel College, Oxford University) Background independence: What's special about general relativity? 15:00 - Dean Rickles (Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary) Who is Afraid of Background Independence 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - Peter Forrest (Department of Philosophy, The University of New England, Australia) Who’s Afraid of Special Relativity? 17:30 - Richard T. W. Arthur (Department of Philosophy, McMaster University) The Degeneracy of Time: Proper Time and Becoming in Einstein-Minkowski Spacetime |
Chair: Juan Ferret (Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso)
9:00 - Jonathan Bain (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York) Condensed Matter Physics and the Nature of Spacetime 10:00 - Tomasz Bigaj (Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University) On EPR, Counterfactuals, and Relation Between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - Ioan Muntean (Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego) Unification and explanation in Kaluza-Klein formalism 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break Chair: Hans Westman (Perimeter Institute) 14:00 - Andrew Wayne (Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph) Spacetime Relationalism and Classical Fields 15:00 - Bradford Skow (Department of Philosophy, New York University) Extrinsic Temporal Metrics 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - Vincent Lam (Université de Lausanne) Singular structure and the nature of space-time 17:30 - Dennis Lehmkuhl (Oxford University) Is spacetime a field? |
Speaker: Robert Geroch (Department of Physics, University of Chicago)