<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">All welcome. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">October 14, Centre for Time Room, Main Quad, University of Sydney <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">and on Zoom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 48);"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372522937?pwd=WWeycmnrL039xykntDIcfZbWhXQ3zH.1" target="_self" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89372522937?pwd=WWeycmnrL039xykntDIcfZbWhXQ3zH.1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; -webkit-user-select: none; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 48); cursor: text;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 48);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; -webkit-user-select: none; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 48); cursor: text;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 48);">Meeting ID: 893 7252 2937<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; -webkit-user-select: none; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 48); cursor: text;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 48);">Passcode: 473785<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Workshop on Time, Causation, and the Future<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Gema Martin-Ordas, Stirling <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">12.15 -1.40 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br>Causal intervention in non-human animals</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The environment poses important challenges (e.g., access to food) to human and non-human animals (henceforth animals). Associative learning can help dealing with such challenges, but the question that has long attracted philosophers and psychologists is whether animals use causal cognition. If, for example, an ape sees the wind shake a tree and apples fall, could the ape infer that if they were to shake the tree the apple would fall? Could an ape go from observing an association to designing an intervention based on that association? This type of sophisticated causal cognition is argued to be uniquely human. Importantly, whereas associative learning yields correlations and enables predictions, causal cognition allows organisms to (1) appreciate that objects have properties that determine how objects interact, and (2) guide their actions to manipulate and/or control these interactions. In this talk, I will present two experimental designs to be conducted with non-human animals that try to get to the idea of causal intervention by focusing either on its temporal component or on the sources of information required to generate a causal intervention—the latter being possible without a temporal aspect. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">1.45- 3.00 Rasmus Pedersen, The University of Sydney <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">How Mental Imagery Influences Temporally Extended Agency <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">or<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Planning Action With or Without a Mind’s Eye<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> In this talk I explore how mental imagery, the capacity to form internal perception-like representation in the absence of external sensory input, affect our ability to form, retain, and retrieve intentions-to-act. While research on the connection between episodic future thinking mental imagery capacities is thriving, it remains unclear how differences in mental imagery influence our ability to form, retain, and retrieve intentions-to-act. I focus on aphantasics (people with a near-complete absence of mental imagery) and hyperphantasics (people with mental imagery so vivid it rivals real perception) as case studies, since they offer naturally occurring “knock-out” test. If mental imagery plays functional roles in temporally extended agency, then aphantasics and hyperphantasics should differ in how they form, retain, and/or retrieve intentions-to-act. I explore these connections and possible philosophical consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">3.00.420: </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Jan Voosholz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Causal Necessity and Time <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">4.30-5.45: Luca Gasparinetti, Milan (by zoom).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The Temporal Structure of Spacetime <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">: Recent proposals have advanced novel causal theories of spacetime within Causal Set Theory and General Relativity. The main motivation stems from a series of theorems showing that the geometry of spacetime (up to a conformal factor) can be recovered from a partial order relation. Based on these mathematical results, and arguably on physicists’ customary talk, philosophers have widely taken the partial order relation at the core of these theorems to be causal, thus reviving the causal theory of spacetime program. Although scattered and rather tentative alternatives exist, no sustained effort has been made to scrutinise the metaphysical status of this relation. Given the far-reaching philosophical consequences drawn from it, such scrutiny is needed. In this paper, I advance an alternative reading of this partial order relation. The proposed view, which interprets the relation as temporal rather than causal, retains the same explanatory power as the causal interpretation while requiring fewer metaphysical commitments and avoiding three problems that affect the latter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
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