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Public Lecture: The Problem of the Direction of Time
Monday 23 September 2019
7 – 9pm, Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
David Albert, Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University will deliver a public lecture on the philosophy and physics of time.
Our everyday experience of being in the world is swarming with vivid and obvious and innumerable distinctions between the past and the future. Paper burns but never un-burns, sugar dissolves in coffee but never spontaneously separates out of it, we have memories and records of the past but not of the future, we are convinced that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past, and so on. But there seems to be no trace of such a distinction anywhere in the fundamental microscopic laws of nature. And the tension between these two facts has been sitting at the heart of our scientific picture of the world for more than a century now. And the question of what to make of that tension, and what to do with that tension, has come to be called the problem of the direction of time. That problem, and various attempts at solving it, will be the topic of this talk.
Organisation
A. Fernandes, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
Kindly supported by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
Monday 23 September 2019
7 – 9pm, Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
David Albert, Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University will deliver a public lecture on the philosophy and physics of time.
Our everyday experience of being in the world is swarming with vivid and obvious and innumerable distinctions between the past and the future. Paper burns but never un-burns, sugar dissolves in coffee but never spontaneously separates out of it, we have memories and records of the past but not of the future, we are convinced that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past, and so on. But there seems to be no trace of such a distinction anywhere in the fundamental microscopic laws of nature. And the tension between these two facts has been sitting at the heart of our scientific picture of the world for more than a century now. And the question of what to make of that tension, and what to do with that tension, has come to be called the problem of the direction of time. That problem, and various attempts at solving it, will be the topic of this talk.
Organisation
A. Fernandes, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
Kindly supported by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
International Workshop: It's a Matter of Time
Friday 10 May – Saturday 11 May 2019
Friday venue: National University of Ireland (49 Merrion Square East)
Saturday venue: Room 5012, Arts Building, College Green, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Naomi Corlett (University College Dublin) - Humeanism and the Open Future
Cord Friebe (University of Siegen) - Future's Becoming Possible
Florian Fischer (University of Siegen) - Persistence and the Interesting Kind of Stability
Martin Pickup (University of Oxford) - Change and Reality's Fragmentation
Alison Fernandes (Trinity College Dublin) - Why Do We Deliberate on the Future?
Luca Banfi (University College Dublin) - What's Wrong with the Presentism/Eternalism Debate?
Bahadir Eker (University of Tübingen) - Temporal Ontology vs. Temporal Ontogeny: Putting A-Theories into Perspective
Daniel Deasy (University College Dublin) - A-Theories, Post-Prior
This workshop is organized by the ISPT (Irish Society for Philosophy of Time) in collaboration with SPoT (Society for Philosophy of Time), with additional support from the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and the Philosophy Department, Trinity College Dublin.
Organisation
D. Deasy (UCD); A. Fernandes (TCD); F. Fischer (U. of Siegen)
Friday 10 May – Saturday 11 May 2019
Friday venue: National University of Ireland (49 Merrion Square East)
Saturday venue: Room 5012, Arts Building, College Green, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Naomi Corlett (University College Dublin) - Humeanism and the Open Future
Cord Friebe (University of Siegen) - Future's Becoming Possible
Florian Fischer (University of Siegen) - Persistence and the Interesting Kind of Stability
Martin Pickup (University of Oxford) - Change and Reality's Fragmentation
Alison Fernandes (Trinity College Dublin) - Why Do We Deliberate on the Future?
Luca Banfi (University College Dublin) - What's Wrong with the Presentism/Eternalism Debate?
Bahadir Eker (University of Tübingen) - Temporal Ontology vs. Temporal Ontogeny: Putting A-Theories into Perspective
Daniel Deasy (University College Dublin) - A-Theories, Post-Prior
This workshop is organized by the ISPT (Irish Society for Philosophy of Time) in collaboration with SPoT (Society for Philosophy of Time), with additional support from the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and the Philosophy Department, Trinity College Dublin.
Organisation
D. Deasy (UCD); A. Fernandes (TCD); F. Fischer (U. of Siegen)
Morning Workshop: Time in Mind
Monday 28 January 2019
10 am—12:45pm, Boardroom, National University of Ireland (49 Merrion Square East) Dublin, Ireland
To celebrate the visit of Kristie Miller and David Braddon-Mitchell to Ireland, the Irish Society for the Philosophy of Time is hosting a morning workshop in Dublin. Topics of the workshop include time; mind; temporal asymmetries; preferences for hedonic goods; mental content; and qualia.
Kristie Miller (University of Sydney) - Hedonic and Non-Hedonic Bias Toward the Future
David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sydney) - Qualia and Causal Conditionalism
Organisation
D. Deasy (UCD); A. Fernandes (TCD)
Kindly supported by the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and the Philosophy Department, Trinity College Dublin.
Monday 28 January 2019
10 am—12:45pm, Boardroom, National University of Ireland (49 Merrion Square East) Dublin, Ireland
To celebrate the visit of Kristie Miller and David Braddon-Mitchell to Ireland, the Irish Society for the Philosophy of Time is hosting a morning workshop in Dublin. Topics of the workshop include time; mind; temporal asymmetries; preferences for hedonic goods; mental content; and qualia.
Kristie Miller (University of Sydney) - Hedonic and Non-Hedonic Bias Toward the Future
David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sydney) - Qualia and Causal Conditionalism
Organisation
D. Deasy (UCD); A. Fernandes (TCD)
Kindly supported by the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and the Philosophy Department, Trinity College Dublin.
