About the Centre The Centre was established in October 2002, and is supported by the Australian Research Council and the University of Sydney, under the terms of a Federation Fellowship awarded to Huw Price. (Professor Price was awarded a second Federation Fellowship in the 2007 round.) The Centre's research focused initially on the role of time and time-asymmetry in the conceptual foundations of modern physics, and on related issues in philosophy, though it has also supported research in a wide range of other areas (see our Events page for a record of the Centre's research meetings since 2002). The Centre now has particular strengths in three main areas: (i) the pragmatic foundations of thought and language (a new project associated Huw Price's second ARC Federation Fellowship); (ii) the philosophy and foundations of physics; and (iii) metaphysics and the philosophy of time. The Centre welcomes visitors interested in any of these topics, and can in some cases offer funding for travel and other expenses. Positions vacant Postdoctoral Fellowships on the Pragmatic Foundations Project Applications are invited for up to three Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, to join a new project on Pragmatic Foundations of Language and Thought (established in association with a second ARC Federation Fellowship recently awarded to Huw Price). The successful applicants will be expected to work on their own research, including topics of relevance to the funding project (interpreted fairly broadly). They will also be encouraged to assist in organising research workshops and conferences, and to assist in the supervision of research students. There will also be many opportunities for collaborative research, both with other resident philosophers and with our many research visitors. The positions are likely to suit philosophers with specialisations in Pragmatism, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science and/or Metaphysics, though other fields are also possible. Mainly, we are looking for exceptionally talented early-career philosophers, interested in pursuing their research interests among a large and very active philosophical community, in one of the world's favourite cities. The positions will be full-time for up to two years, by arrangement. We welcome applications from researchers seeking secondment from positions elsewhere, and will endeavour to offer flexible starting dates to successful candidates seeking such arrangements. There are also longer-term funding opportunities available for researchers wanting to spend more time with our group, and we will encourage and assist the successful candidates to apply for such grants.  Further details and an online application form are available here. Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Huw Price before applying; and to include the names and email contact details for three referees in their CV, when applying. Closing date: 20 March 2008. News Welcome ... ... to Ben Blumson, who has just joined us as a Postdoctoral Fellow! New audio and slides online MP3 recordings of all sessions in our recent PIAF Workshop in Quantum Foundations, and from our recent conference on Ontological Commitment, are now available here. (These recordings will be moved to the Sydney eScholarship Repository — see below  — in due course.) Current Projects 2008 Our renowned Current Projects Seminar will soon be back for its third season. This weekly series features 30 minute talks on work in progress by members of the Centre, visitors, and others, with a one hour discussion period. Sign up to the SydPhil mailing list to get the notices, or consult the SydPhil archive. Offers of talks to Kristie Miller. Sydney eScholarship Repository The Centre has established a collection within the Sydney eScholarship Repository, which is an initiative of the University of Sydney Library. The Centre's collection at the Repository may be accessed at at this link. Currently, it contains a complete set of audio recordings and associated material from three of our meetings, and talks by Huw Price and Jenann Ismael on Truth and Death, respectively, from RIHSS's recent 'Key Concepts' Public Lecture Series. Slides and sound recordings from several other recent events are still available here on our own site, as below. Causation, Probability and Decision :: 21 April 2006 A one-day mini-conference, with Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna), Arif Ahmed (Cambridge), Stephan Hartmann (LSE) and Philip Dawid (UCL). Slides from the talks are now available. More details here. Summer Workshop :: 14-15 December 2005 The speakers at this workshop included Guido Bacciagaluppi (Paris), Michael Dickson (South Carolina), Alexei Grinbaum (Paris), Amit Hagar (Konstanz, Delaware) and Veiko Palge (Konstanz). Some slides are accessible here, and more will be available soon. Workshop with Bob Brandom :: 14 October 2005 Sound recordings are available here. Public Lecture by Professor Anthony Leggett :: 25 July 2005 Professor Sir Anthony Leggett is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on superfluidity. He visited the Centre in July 2005, as Keynote Speaker at our Workshop on Time-Symmetric Approaches to Quantum Mechanics. Professor Leggett gave a public lecture in the Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture series, on the topic: Does the everyday world really obey quantum mechanics? A full audio recording and slides for the lecture are now available here: Download High Quality Audio (MP3, 128kbps, 110Mb) Download Medium Quality Audio (MP3, 56kbps, 32Mb) Download Low Quality Audio (MP3, 16kbps, 9Mb) Download Slides (PPT, 13Mb) (A flyer for the lecture is also available.). Contact information Centre for Time Department of Philosophy Main Quad A14 University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA e-mail: time@staff.usyd.edu.au telephone: +61 (0) 2 9351 4057 fax: +61 (0) 2 9351 3918 Last update: 12.02.08.