Third annual Meeting
of the International Association
for the Philosophy of Time
June 9-11, 2016
Embassy Suites, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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June 9
9 am – 9:50 am
· A Session: Nicholas Rimell (UVA): “Reimagining the Epistemic Objection to Non-Presentist A-Theories”
· B Session: Clara Carus (Harvard): “Is Time Truly A Priori?”
10 am – 10:50 am
· A Session: Derek Lam (UVA): “The Non-Presentist A-Theorist’s Gambling Problem”
· B Session: Riccardo Pinosio (Amsterdam): A Mathematical Formalization of Kant’s Theory of Time”
11 am – 11:50 am
· A Session: David Taylor (NCSU): “Ontologies of the Open Future”
· B Session: Emily Waddle (Iowa): “The Flipbook Objection to B-Theory Accounts of Phenomenal Passage”
12 pm – 1:30 pm: Break
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
· A Session: Jasper Heaton (UBC): “The Openness of the Future: Genuine Alternatives and the Demand for Parity”
· B Session: Kathy Fazekas (Willamette): “The Experience of the Passage of Time”
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm
· A Session: Lisa Leininger (Hobart and William Smith): “Abandoning Absolute Becoming”
· B Session: Gerardo Viera (UBC): “The Units of Temporal Perception”
3:30 pm – 4 pm: Break
4 pm – 4:50 pm
· A Session: Sayid Bnefsi (Berea): “Presentists Should Not Believe in Backward Time Travel”
· B Session: Valtteri Arstila (Turku): “Seen and Sensed Change”
5 pm – 5:50 pm
· A Session: Giacomo Andreoletti (Milan): “Fatalism and Going Backward in Time”
· B Session: Steven Gross (Johns Hopkins): “What Is Attention to Time?”
5:50 pm – 8:30 pm: Break
8:30 pm – 9:45 pm GENERAL SESSION
· David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney): “Presentism, Memory, and the Duration of the Supervenience Base of Experience”
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June 10
9 am – 9:50 am
· A Session: David McElhoes (Arizona State): “All Times Are Troubled Times”
· B Session: Nihel Jhou (Miami): “Global Invariant Presentness without Simultaneity in Special Relativity”
10 am – 10:50 am
· A Session: Donatella Donati (Nottingham): “Eternalism and Powers Ontology”
· B Session: Kevin Goffey (NYU-Abu Dhabi): “Understanding Mass and Energy in Special Relativistic Dynamics”
11 am – 11:50 am
· A Session: Michael Tooley (Colorado): “Tensed Properties and the Growing Block View of the Nature of Time: An Unsound Objection”
· B Session: Joshua Norton (AU-Beirut): “No Time for the Hamiltonian Constraint”
12 pm – 1:30 pm: Break
1:30 – 4 pm GENERAL SESSION
· Panel Discussion: “Is time (or space-time) fundamental according to theories of quantum gravity?” Alyssa Ney (UC-Davis), Joshua Norton (AU-Beirut), Tiziana Vistarini (Colorado), and Christian Wüthrich (Geneva)
4 pm – 4:30 pm: Break
4:30 pm – 5:20 pm
· A Session: Richard Hanley (Delaware): “Puzzles of Material Constitution and Persistence: A Coincidence Solution”
· B Session: Ademola Kazeem Fayemi (Lagos) and Olanrewaju Shitta-Bey (Lagos/Uludag): “Further Reflections on the Problem of Time in African Philosophy”
5:30 pm – 6:20 pm GENERAL SESSION
· Mauro Dorato (Rome): “Presentism and Eternalism as Ethical Stances”
6:20 pm – 8:30 pm: Break
8:30 pm – 10 pm GENERAL SESSION
· Debate: “Is There a Future for Growing Block Theory?” Graeme A. Forbes (Kent) vs. Kristie Miller (Sydney)
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June 11
9 am – 9:50 am
· A Session: James Darcy (UVA): “The Ersatz B-Series and a Limit to the Modal Parallel”
· B Session: Maria Balcells (Bucknell): “Temporal Passage and Illusion”
10 am – 10:50 am
· A Session: Brittany Gentry (South Carolina): “Measurement Theory and Shoemaker’s ‘Time without Change’”
· B Session: Marius Backmann (Konstanz): “Tensed Laws Humeanism”
11 am – 11:50 am
· A Session: Ulrich Meyer (Colgate): “Distances and Durations”
· B Session: Samuele Iaquinto (Milan): “The Invisible Thin Red Line”
12 pm – 1:30 pm: Break
1:30 pm – 4 pm GENERAL SESSION
· Panel discussion: “What Is the Relationship between Causation and Time?” Sara Bernstein (Duke), Heather Demarest (Oklahoma), Nina Emery (Brown), and Michael Tooley (Colorado)
4 pm – 4:30 pm: Break
4:30 pm – 5:40 pm GENERAL SESSION
· Giuliano Torrengo (Milan): “The Varieties of Temporal Experience”
6:30 pm: Conference Banquet