Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts: Space & Time Workshop on the Open Future

Thursday Dec 1

• 10:00-11:30 Craig Bourne (Hertfordshire) & Emily Caddick (Cambridge & Birkbeck): "The Fictional Future"; comments by Chiara Panizza (UB)
• 11:30-12:00 Coffee break
• 12:00-13:30 Corine Besson (Birkbeck) & Anandi Hattiangadi (Oxford): "The Absolute Truth about Future Contingents"; comments by Max Kölbel (ICREA-UB)
• 13:30-15:00 Catered lunch
• 15:00-16:30 Graeme A Forbes (Sheffield): "Open but not Gaping"; comments by Giuliano Torrengo (UB)
• 16:30-17:00 Coffee break
• 17:00-18:30 Antony Eagle (Oxford): "The Open Future"; comments by Moritz Schulz (UB)
• 20:30 Dinner

Friday Dec 2

• 10:00-11:30 Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame): “Change We Can Believe In (and Assert)”; comments by Bryan Pickel (UB)
• 11:30-12:00 Coffee break
  12:00-13:30 Robert Williams (Leeds): "Believing in an Open Future", comments by Manolo Martínez (UB)
• 13:30-15:00 Catered lunch
• 15:00-16:30 Joseph Diekemper (Queen's): ''Thisness, Singular Propositions, and Bifurcated Existentialism''; comments by Stephan Torre (UB)
• 16:30-17:00 Coffee break
• 17:00-18:30 Ned Markosian (Western Washington): "A Branching-Time Solution to the Truthmaker Problem for Presentism"; comments by Pablo Rychter (València)
• 20:30 Dinner

The workshop will have a 'read-ahead' format. The papers (password protected) are available here (please note that the page is also protected and to access it you will need a username&password). 

Those interested in attending should contact [email protected]

For further information please visit here.