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You are invited to attend the following pair of seminars by Dr. Michael Eldred, visiting from Cologne.</div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Seminar on the Phenomenology of Time in the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: oblique;">Mon. 16th Sept. 2024 11:30-13:00 h HPS Common Room, F07 Carslaw and<br>
Tue. 17th. Sept. 2024 11:30-13:00 h CG1A.GR.G19 Physics Road Learning Hub Seminar Room G19</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The seminar attempts an introduction to the phenomenology of time, one of the simplest, and therefore most elusive phenomena taken on by philosophy from its Greek beginnings. The aim is to awaken a sensibility for the questionability
of the multifacted phenomenon of time, not to raise and answer questions about it. Like other simple, elementary phenomena, we are all intimately familiar with time and have an implicit understanding of it. How to unfold this implicit, folded-in understanding
into explicit, unfolded concepts?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aristotle’s </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: oblique;">Physics </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">is not a book on physics in the modern sense. It raises questions about phenomena that are taken as self-evident
and skipped over by modern physics. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: oblique;">Physics </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">delves into the deeper nature of physical beings and is therefore ‘meta-physical’, or ontological. Physical beings
are beings that can move (_kinounta_) or can be moved (_kinoumena_), which include kinds of beings that today we would classify as either natural or artificial. Hence the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: oblique;">Physics </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">could
be characterized as an investigation of physical movement that asks even the simple question: What is movement (_kinaesis, metabolae_)? The kinds of movement in focus first become visible through Aristotle’s investigation itself. The phenomenon of time, in
turn, is approached by asking what it has to do with movement. No explicit consideration of kinds of movement other than physical is given; the question is not even posed. The concept of time is developed — in the order of thinking through the phenomena —
only as derivative of phenomena of physical movement that Aristotle has in view. Questions include: Can Aristotle’s conception of time be regarded as linear, continuous, one-dimensional? What does dimension mean in this context? What does time have to do with
being itself? What does time have to do with space? Are space and time on a par in Aristotle’s thinking? What does time have to do with us </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: oblique;">as </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">human beings? How
does Aristotle conceive the (mode of) being of human beings?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Heidegger’s 1962 talk on ‘Time and Being’ is a very late attempt to explicate the phenomenon of time after philosophy has passed its zenith and entered the age of its degeneration in which its original questions and mode of
questioning are no longer understood. The 1962 talk stands near the end of Heidegger’s career as a thinker, the opposite end to its initial stage that culminated in his famous 1927 monograph, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: oblique;">Being
and Time</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. The latter develops various concepts of time, starting with „vulgar time“ and going back step by step to „original time“. We encounter in the 1962 talk a conception of three-dimensional and even four-dimensional
time that arises not by considering any kind of movement, but by asking first of all what being itself means. What does dimension signify in connection with three- and four-dimensional time? What does time have to do with the being of human beings? What does
time have to do with truth (Unverborgenheit, unconcealedness)?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dean</span></p>
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Prof. Dean Rickles<br>
School of HPS<br>
Faculty of Science<br>
Co-Director, Centre for Time<br>
University of Sydney,<br>
NSW 2006, Australia<br>
Work Phone: 61 2 9351 8552<br>
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"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law"<br>
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Prof. Dean Rickles<br>
School of HPS<br>
Faculty of Science<br>
Co-Director, Centre for Time<br>
University of Sydney,<br>
NSW 2006, Australia<br>
Work Phone: 61 2 9351 8552<br>
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"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law"<br>
Douglas Hofstadter<br>
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