[SydPhil] Time: Arrows, Experience, Emergence

Kristie Miller kristie_miller at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 9 14:56:15 AEST 2015


> Time: Arrows, Experience, Emergence
> An interdisciplinary conference on time’s arrow, temporal experience, and emergence and complexity
> 
> University of Sydney, Australia: 12th-13th June 2015
> 
Woolley Common Room Level 3 , John Woolley Building (A20), Russell Place (parallel to Science Road) The University of Sydney
> 
> Schedule. 
> 
> Friday 12th June
> 
> 9:45-10:00. Dean Rickles & Kristie Miller “Welcome”
> 10:00-11:00. Paul Davies (Arizona State University)”Gravitational Entropy: Beyond the Black Hole”
> 11:00-11:30. Coffee Break
> 11:30-12:30. Bryan Roberts (LSE) “Measuring the Fundamental Arrows of Time”
> 12:30-13:30. Lunch break
> 13:30-14:30. David Albert (Columbia University) TBD
> 14:30-15:30. Phil Dowe (University of Queensland) “Causal Emergence in Quantum Mechanics”
> 15:30-16:00. Coffee break
> 16:00-17:00. Patrick McGivern (University of Wollongong) TBD
> 17:00-18:00. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan – Flint) TBD
> Saturday 13th June
> 
> 10:00-11:00. Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University) “Fatalism as a Metaphysical Thesis”
> 11:00-11:30. Coffee Break
> 11:30-12:30. Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan) “Tenseless Sunshine of the Conscious Mind”
> 12:30-13:30. Lunch break
> 13:30-14:30. Eric Cavalcanti (University of Sydney) TBD
> 14:30-15:30. Geoffrey Lee (University of Berkeley) TBD
> 15:30-16:00. Coffee break
> 16:00-17:00. Al Wilson (University of Birmingham) “A Simple Solution to the Problem of the Initial State”
> The conference is run by the Centre for Time, University of Sydney, the project New Agendas for the Study of Time (funded by the John Templeton Foundation) and the Society for the Philosophy of Time.
> 


Associate Professor Kristie Miller
Senior ARC Research Fellow
Joint Director, the Centre for Time
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 407, A 14

kmiller at usyd.edu.au
kristie_miller at yahoo.com
Ph: +612 9036 9663
http://www.kristiemiller.net/KristieMiller2/Home_Page.html















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