Centre for Philosophy of Time

Department of Philosophy – Università degli Studi di Milano

past-colloquia

Past Colloquia

FALL-WINTER SESSION 2018/2019

18 October 2018 – Kasia Jaszczolt (Cambridge) – “Time, Metarepresentation, and Metaindexicality: A Neo-Whorfian Approach”

20 May – Francesca Vidotto (University of Western Ontario) – “Relational Observables and Relational Time”

10 April – Gerardo Viera (Antwerp) – “The Apparent Unity of Time”

TBA – Akiko Frischhut (Akita International University, Japan)

25 February – Gaspar Yves (Catholic University, Milan) – “Time, between Mathematics and Physics”

3 December – Christian List (LSE) – “Levels: Descriptive, Explanatory, and Ontological”

20 November – Laura Caponetto (San Raffaele, Milan) – “Doing, Undoing, and Counteracting”

BRAINSTORMING 2018/2019

9 October – Samuele Iaquinto & Giuliano Torrengo – “Do Impossible Material Objects Exist?”

Spring-Summer Session 2018

24 May – David Pitt (California State University) – “How Do Thoughts Find Their Objects?”

23 May – Bence Nanay (Antwerp) – “Temporal Mental Imagery”

11 May – Richard T.W. Arthur (McMaster University) – “Local Time Flow and Relativity”

11 April – Matteo Morganti (Roma Tre) – “Relational Time”

21 March – Raamy Majeed (Open University, London) – “Does Modularity Undermine the Pro-Emotion Consensus?”

20 March – Heather Demarest (University of Colorado) – “Relativistic Passage of Time”

21 February – Donnchadh O’Conaill (University of Fribourg) – “Temporal Modes of Presentation and the Experience of Passage”

18 January – Angelica Kaufmann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – “Do Animals Represent the Passage of Time?”

Fall-Winter Session 2017/2018

22 November – Valtteri Arstila (University of Turku) – “The Role of Retention in Temporal Experiences”

13 November – Carl Hoefer (Barcelona) – “Quantum Natural Kinds: like Atoms, or Phlogiston?” (part of the Philosophy of Science Seminar Series)

9 November – Alison Fernandes (Warwick) – “The Temporal Asymmetry of Chance” (part of the Philosophy of Science Seminar Series)

25 October – Paula Sweeney (Aberdeen) – “Eternalism as Therapy: Mourning the Death of Michael Besso”

20 October – S. Hirvonen (University of London) – “The Time-Lag Argument, Direct Realism about Seeing, and the Extended Now”

16 October – Kasia Jaszczolt (Cambridge) “The Demise of the Concept of Time” & Giuliano Torrengo (Milan) “Tenses and the Experience of the Passage”

Spring-Summer Session 2017

27 June – David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney) – “Lessons From a Decision Theory for Time Travellers”

9 June – Sara Bernstein (Notre Dame) – “Temporal Passage and Time Travel”

8 June – Daniel Nolan (Notre Dame) – “Time and Parsimony”

5 April – Mauro D’Ariano (Pavia) “Quantum Epistemology: Structuralism and Algorithmic Ontology” & James Ladyman (Bristol) “Information, Physics, and Structural Realism”

29 March – Graeme A. Forbes (Kent) – “The Practical Rationality of Tralfamadorians”

15 March – Claudio Calosi (Neuchâtel) – “Locational Problems for Locational Endurantism”

1 March – Emily Thomas (Durham) – “John Locke: Newtonian Absolutist about Time?”

Fall-Winter Session 2016/2017

22 February – Marta Jorba (Basque Country) – “The Temporality of Conscious Thought”

10 February – Christian Wüthrich (Geneva) – “When the Actual World is Not Even Possible”

2 December – Francesco Orilia (Macerata) – “A Moderately Presentist Response to Some Recent Anti-Presentist Objections”

14 November – Double Colloquium: Mauro Dorato (Roma Tre) “The Reality of the Now and the Incompleteness of Physics” & Nino Zanghì (INFN Genova) “Physics and Realism”

4 November – Giuseppe Spolaore (Padua) & Giuliano Torrengo (Milan) — “The Moving Spotlight(s)”

Spring-Summer Session 2016

23 June – Friederike Moltmann (CNRS) — “Actions and their Products”

17 May – Ned Markosian (Massachusetts, Amherst) — “The Dynamic Theory of Time and Time Travel to the Past”

5 May – Gottfried Vosgerau (Düsseldorf) — “The Dynamic Nature of Experience”

22 April – Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU, Budapest) – “Resolving Apparent and Theoretical Puzzles in Reflections on Time”

22 March – Alessandro Torza (UNAM) – “Ideology in a Desert Landscape”

18 March – Ulrich Meyer (Colgate) – “The Arrested Spotlight”

Brainstorming 2017/2018

23 April – Valerio Buonomo & Giuliano Torrengo – “Theories of Persistence within a Locative Account”

10 April – Christopher Gifford – “Why Vagueness Is Possible”

10 January – Clotilde Calabi – “The Experience of Motion in the Waterfall Illusion”

4 January – Valerio Buonomo, Cristian Mariani, and Daria Vitasovic – “Dry Run of the Evaluation Day”

21 December – Clotilde Calabi – “The Experience of Motion in the Waterfall Illusion”

14 November – Benjamin Neeser – “Stages in Spacetime”

14 November – Carl Hoefer – Discussion on “Physics and Temporal Becoming” (joint session with Reading Group Phil. Physics)

24 October – Jonathan Tallant & Giuliano Torrengo – “Purely Theoretical Explanations”

23 October – Jonathan Tallant – Discussion of “Emergent Gravity and the Emergence of Spacetime”

20 October – Enrico Cinti & Cristian Mariani – “Emergent Gravity and the Emergence of Spacetime”

19 September – Giacomo Andreoletti – “That Useless Second Time Machine”

Brainstorming 2016/2017

22 June – Cristian Mariani & Giuliano Torrengo – “Metaphysical Indeterminacy in Quantum Mechanics”
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16 June – Daria Vitasovic – “Structure of Intentionality: Experiencing Psychological Modes”
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24 May – Tzuchien Tho – “Theorizing Temporal Structure in 17th Century Physics”
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1 5 May – Clotilde Calabi & Nick Young – “Can Movement Be Depicted?”

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6 April – Daria Vitasovic – “Composition of Cognitive Phenomenology”

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28 March – Valerio Buonomo & Eugenio Petrovich – “Reconstructing the History of Analytic Philosophy”
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28 February – Clotilde Calabi – “The Eye of the Needle: Seeing Holes”
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20 February – Donatella Donati – “Powerless Powers in a Fixed Future”
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13 February – Giuliano Torrengo – “The Intelligibility Problem”
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31 January – Nick Young – “Hearing Events”
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26 January – Giacomo Andreoletti – “Defending a Mutable Future”
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6 December – Giuliano Torrengo & Samuele Iaquinto – “Fragmentalist Presentism and Truth Supervenience”
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14 November – Davide Bordini – “Intentionalism about Moods”
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3 November – Giuseppe Spolaore – “Gunky Time and Instantaneous Events”
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26 October – David Ingram – “A Thisness Ontology”
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14 October – Giuliano Torrengo & Jonathan Tallant — “Explanation in Metaphysics”
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30 September – Giuliano Torrengo – “Explanation Makers”
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26 September – Jonathan Tallant – “Fragmentalism”
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19 September – Giuliano Torrengo – “Decision Tree: Tense Realisms”
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13 September – Giacomo Andreoletti – “Fatalism and Going Backwards in Time”