Conference: The physics and phenomenology of time; Rome, 6-7 April 2017

University of Rome 3
Location: Aula Verra (ground floor), via Ostiense 234, 00146, Rome

Programme:

6th of April

9:10 – 10: Claudio Calosi, (University of Neuchâtel)
Locational Problems for Locational Endurantism

10:00 – 10:50 Orly Shenker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Past Hypothesis and the Psychological Arrow of Time

break

11:10 – 12:00 Marc Wittmann (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene; Freiburg)
Embodied time: How the body and brain create our feeling for duration

12:00 – 12:50 Francesco Orilia (Università di Macerata)
Presentism vs. eternalism: moral and existential aspects

12:50-13:20 Discussion

lunch

15:30 – 16:20 Yuval Dolev (Bar-Hillan University)
Physics’ Silence on Time

16:20 – 17:10 Carl Hoefer (ICREA, University of Barcelona)
Physics and Temporal Becoming

break

17.40 – 18:30 Meir Hemmo (University of Haifa)
Maxwell Demon and Quantum Mechanics

Discussion

7th of April

9:00 – 9:50 Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva)
The (a)temporal emergence of spacetime

9:50 – 10:40 Daniele Oriti (Max Planck Institute Potsdam)
An emergent universe without fundamental space and time

break

11:00 – 11:50 Oliver Pooley (Univ. of Oxford)
TBA

11:50-13:00 Discussion

lunch

info:
Mauro Dorato, dorato@uniroma3.it
Matteo Morganti, matteo.morganti@uniroma3.it

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