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Chair: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)
11:00 - Yvon Gauthier (Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal) Hermann Weyl on Minkowskian space-time 12:00 - Robert DiSalle (Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario) "World Structure" and the Physical Meaning of Spacetime Geometry 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Chair: Mauro Dorato (University of Rome Three) 14:30 - Richard T. W. Arthur (Department of Philosophy, McMaster University) Minkowski Spacetime and the Dimensions of the Present 15:30 - Kent A. Peacock (Department of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge) Covariant Simultaneity Relations and the Ontology of Events 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - Robert Rynasiewicz (Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University) Against Simultaneity, Becoming, and All That... The View from Neuro-Psychology |
Chair: John Corbett (Macquarie University)
11:00 - Thomas D. Angelidis (Centre for Mathematical Physics, London) Special Relativity prohibits spacelike causation 12:00 - Jan Broekaert (CLEA, FUND, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Poincaré’s Geometric Conventionalism and Relativity Principle: a physical perspective on GRT 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Chair: Lawrence Fagg (Catholic University of America) 14:30 - Jonathan Bain (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York) Spacetime Structuralism 15:30 - John Corbett (Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Australia) Ontology of Quantum Space interpreted by Quantum Real Numbers 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - Giuseppe Guzzetta (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Napoli "Federico II") On an undervalued implication of the Minkowski space-time |
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Chair: Mark Stuckey (Elizabethtown College)
11:00 - Gordon Belot (Department of Philosophy, New York University) No-Really. The Problem of Time 12:00 - Michael C. Cifone (Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland) and Michael Silberstein (Department of Philosophy, Elizabethtown College) Static for dynamism: special relativity and the nature of time 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Chair: Robert DiSalle (University of Western Ontario) 14:30 - David Taylor (Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa) Rediscovering the C-Series: McTaggart's Lost Insight 15:30 - Harvey R. Brown and Oliver Pooley (Department of Philosophy, Oxford University) Minkowski space-time: a glorious non-entity 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - David P. Hunt (Department of Philosophy, Whittier College) Free Agency in a Block Universe |
Chair: Young S. Kim (University of Maryland)
11:00 - Christian Wüthrich (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) Quantum Gravity and the 3D vs. 4D 12:00 - Luca Lusanna (Sezione di Firenze, Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN)) A Physicist Viewpoint on Space-time, Simultaneity, and Accelerated Observers 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Chair: Kent A. Peacock (University of Lethbridge) 14:30 - Young S. Kim (Department of Physics, University of Maryland) Does special relativity prevail inside relativistic particles? Yes! 15:30 - Rathindra Nath Sen (Department of Mathematics, Ben Gurion University, Israel) Physics and the Local Mathematical Structure of Space-Time 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - Vesselin Petkov (Philosophy Department, Science College, and Liberal Arts, Concordia University) Inertia as a manifestation of the reality of spacetime |
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Chair: Steven Weinstein (Dartmouth College)
11:00 - Dennis Dieks (Department of History and Foundations of Science, Utrecht University) Becoming, Relativity and Locality 12:00 - Craig Callender (Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego) The subjectivity of the present
14:30 - Mauro Dorato (Department of Philosophy, University of Rome Three) Becoming, Occurring and Minkowski spacetime 15:30 - Jan Faye (Department of Education, Philosophy and Rethoric, University of Copenhagen) Who is afraid of the Causal-General Approach? 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - Steven Savitt (Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia) Presentism and Eternalism in Perspective |
Chair: Gordon Belot (New York University)
11:00 - Nick Huggett (Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago) The Regularity Account of Relative Space 12:00 - James Mattingly (Philosophy Department, Georgetown University) Overcoming Metaphysics (Again!): Cassirer, Weyl, and Carnap on the Ontology of Spacetime 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Chair: Nick Huggett (University of Illinois at Chicago) 14:30 - Bradford Skow (Department of Philosophy, New York University) What is it for the world to be temporal? 15:30 - Bradley Monton (Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky) Presentism and Quantum Gravity 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - Alexey Kryukov (Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin) On the problem of emergence of classical space-time: The quantum-mechanical approach |
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Chair: Jan Faye (University of Copenhagen)
11:00 - Nicholas Maxwell (Science and Technology Studies, University College, London) Special Relativity, Time, Probabilism, and Ultimate Reality 12:00 - Jean-Louis Hudry (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh) Is time in classical physics discrete, dense, or continuous? 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Chair: James Mattingly (Georgetown University) 14:30 - Storrs McCall (Department of Philosophy, McGill University) Philosophical Consequences of the Twins Paradox 15:30 - Yuval Dolev (Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Relativity Theory and the Tenseless View of Time 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - Steven Weinstein (Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College) Superluminal Signaling and Relativity |
Chair: Jan Broekaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
11:00 - James Brian Pitts (Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame) Gravity as (Really) a 'Spin 2' Universal Force in Minkowski Spacetime 12:00 - W. M. Stuckey and Kevin J. McGrath (Department of Physics, Elizabethtown College) Quantum Non-Locality and the Structure of Spacetime 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Chair: Luca Lusanna (Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare) 14:30 - Louis Marchildon (Département de physique, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) Space and Time in Mohrhoff's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 15:30 - Thierry Grandou and Jacques L. Rubin (Institut du Non-Linéaire de Nice, CNRS-Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis) Time ‘betwins’ 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break |
Speaker: Simon Saunders (Oxford University)
Commentator: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)