Past Colloquia 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” – 16 June – Daria Vitasovic – “Structure of Intentionality: Experiencing Psychological Modes” – 24 May – Tzuchien Tho – “Theorizing Temporal Structure in 17th Century Physics” —— 15 May – Clotilde Calabi & Nick Young – “Can Movement Be Depicted?” —— 6 April – Daria Vitasovic – “Composition of Cognitive Phenomenology” — 28 March – Valerio Buonomo & Eugenio Petrovich – “Reconstructing the History of Analytic Philosophy” — — 28 February – Clotilde Calabi – “The Eye of the Needle: Seeing Holes” — — 20 February – Donatella Donati – “Powerless Powers in a Fixed Future” — — 13 February – Giuliano Torrengo – “The Intelligibility Problem” — — 31 January – Nick Young – “Hearing Events” — — 26 January – Giacomo Andreoletti – “Defending a Mutable Future” — — 6 December – Giuliano Torrengo & Samuele Iaquinto – “Fragmentalist Presentism and Truth Supervenience” — — 14 November – Davide Bordini – “Intentionalism about Moods” — — 3 November – Giuseppe Spolaore – “Gunky Time and Instantaneous Events” — — 26 October – David Ingram – “A Thisness Ontology” — — 14 October – Giuliano Torrengo & Jonathan Tallant — “Explanation in Metaphysics” — — 30 September – Giuliano Torrengo – “Explanation Makers” — — 26 September – Jonathan Tallant – “Fragmentalism” — — 19 September – Giuliano Torrengo – “Decision Tree: Tense Realisms” — — 13 September – Giacomo Andreoletti – “Fatalism and Going Backwards in Time”
