20 January 2025 – Daniele Cassaghi (Turin University) – “Can a retentionalist be a direct realist?” Aula “Martinetti”, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 14:00 and Teams Abstract. The intervallic perception view (James, 1890), according to which subjects are perceptually
05 December 2024 – Ikuro Suzuki (Nihon University) – “Presentism and Persistence”
05 December 2024– Ikuro Suzuki (Nihon University) – “Presentism and Persistence” Aula “Martinetti”, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 14:00 Abstract. In recent publications, several authors have highlighted the difficulties presentism faces in accounting for persistence (e.g., Tallant 2018; Leininger,
06 June 2024 – Beppe Spolaore (University of Padua) – “The Varieties of Branching Time”
06 June 2024 – Beppe Spolaore (University of Padua) – “The Varieties of Branching Time” Aula “Martinetti”, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 11:00 Branching time (BT) frames are tree-like networks of histories (also known as possible worlds). BT frames
30 May 2024 – Adrian Kuźniar (University of Warsaw) – “Compatibilism and the concept of a law-breaking event”
30 May 2024 Adrian Kuźniar (Warsaw) — “Compatibilism and the concept of a law-breaking event” Aula “Martinetti”, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 16:00 In this talk, I provide and justify a broader definition of a ‘law-breaking event’ than that
7 March 2024 – Michael Nelson (University of California, Riverside) – “On the reality of tense and aspect: What is objective becoming?”
7 March 2024: Michael Nelson (University of California, Riverside) – “On the reality of tense and aspect: What is objective becoming?” Aula “Martinetti”, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 13:00 Verbs have tense and aspect. Tense, marking whether the described
14 March 2024 – Shira Yechimovitz (Tel Aviv University and the University of Sydney) – “The Growing Block’s Past Genesis Problem”
14 March 2024: Shira Yechimovitz (Tel Aviv University and the University of Sydney) – “The Growing Block’s Past Genesis Problem” Aula “Martinetti”, Via Festa del Perdono 7, h. 12:00 – What is past was once present. Therefore, any theory of