Metaphysics of Space, Time, and Spacetime
July 5-6, 2016
University of Sassari (DADU), Alghero
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Programme
Tuesday 5 July
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9:30 – 9:45 Welcome & Opening remarks
9:45 – 10:45 Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham) – “Defining Presentism?”
10:45 – 11:25 Samuele Iaquinto (University of Milan) – “Presentism and Fragmentalist Perdurantism”
12:25 – 11:55 Coffee break
11:55 – 12:35 Jacek Waver (Jagellonian University, Krakow) – “Open Future, Truth, and Modal Metaphysics”
12:35 – 13:15 Cruz Austin Davis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) – “Too little Distance, too much Space: Coincident Regions, Monistic Substantivalism, and Ideological Parsimony”
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13:15 – 15:10 Lunch break
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15:10 – 15:50 Ceren Yildiz (Bosphorus University) – “How not to Defend the Passage of Time”
15:50 – 16:30 Julius Doboszewski (Jagellonian University, Krakow and University of Geneve) – “Stochastic Geometries and Open Future”
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan) – “Perspectival Tenses and Dynamic Tenses”
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20:30 Social dinner
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Wednesday 6 July
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9:30 – 10:30 David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sidney) – TBA
10:30 – 11:10 Matt Leonard (University of Southern California) – “Enduring trough Gunk”
11:10-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:20 Fabio Patrone (University of Genoa) – “Pixelism: how to Persist Fictionally in Five Dimensions”
12:20 – 13:20 Kristie Miller (University of Sidney) – “It’s Identity, not Turtles, all the Way Down”
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13:20 – 15:20 Lunch break
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15:20 – 16:00 Alison Fernandes (Columbia University) – “Time Travel, Counterfactuals and Holding the Past and the Present Fixed”
16:00 – 16:40 John Horden (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, Mexico City) – Alalytic Truths of Mereology
16:40 – 17:10 Coffee break
17:10 – 18:10 Achille Varzi (Columbia University) – “The Magic Moments of Topology”