CPT/FraMEPhys Workshop on Time and Explanation

As a warm-up event for SMS4 (4th Annual Conference of the Society for Metaphysics of Science) the Centre for Philosophy of Time in Milan and the FraMEPhys project at the University of Birmingham are co-hosting a workshop on Time and Explanation. All are welcome but please email [email protected] if you plan to attend.

*Speakers* 

Samuel Baron (University of Western Australia)
Christina Conroy (Morehead State University)
Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Alison Fernandes (University of Warwick/Trinity College, Dublin)
Mike Hicks (University of Cologne)
Dave Ingram (University of York)

*Schedule*

Monday 20 August

    13.00 – 13.15: Alastair Wilson – “Intro”

    13.15 – 14.45: David Ingram – “Nefarious Metaphysical Explanations”

    14.45 - 15.00: Coffee break

    15.00 – 16.30: Alison Fernandes – “Three Accounts of Laws and Time”

    16.45 – 18.15: Michael Hicks – “Space-Time Symmetries and Inductive Discovery”

    19.30: Dinner

Tuesday 21 August

    10.00 – 11.30: Sam Baron – “The Metaphysics of Spacetime Emergence”

    11.30 - 11.45: Coffee break

    11.45 – 13.15: Christina Conroy & Alastair Wilson – “Relationism and the Structure of Time”

    13.15 - 15.00: Lunch

    15.00 – 16.30: Heather Demarest - “Flowing Alone”

    16.45 – 17.15: General discussion

*Acknowledgements*

This event is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 757295), together with the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan.

Centre for Philosophy of Time: http://www.centreforphilosophyoftime.it/
FraMEPhys: http://tinyurl.com/framephys