17 June – “Spacetime and Fundamentality”

Spacetime and Fundamentality

Friday 17th of June 2016

University of Neuchâtel

26, Avenue du Premier-Mars, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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Programme

9:30 – 10:45 Oliver Pooley (Oxford) – “Fundamentality and the Dynamical Approach to Relativity“

11:00 – 12:15 Martin Lipman (Hamburg) – “In Defence of a Fragmentalist Interpretation of Special Relativity”

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12:30 Lunch break

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14:30 – 15:45 Alastair Wilson (Birmingham) (over Skype) – “Emergent Spacetime: Grounded or Caused?”

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:30 Jessica Wilson (Toronto) – “How to be a Spacetime Relationalist – or a Substantivalist”

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19:30 Conference dinner

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