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This workshop was held in conjunction with a visit by Prof Graham Nerlich (Adelaide). Speakers included Graham Nerlich, Dean Rickles (HPS, Sydney), Michael Seevinck (Utrecht) and Hans Westman (Physics/Philosophy, Sydney). Further details here.
A workshop in conjunction with the Centre's new Pragmatic
Foundations Project. The speakers were Patrick Greenough, Huw
Price, Kevin Scharp and Lionel
Schapiro. Further details here.
A research workshop in conjunction with visits by Helen Beebee
and David
Papineau. Other speakers included Jossi Berkovitz, Rachael Briggs,
Eric
Cavalcanti, Alan Hájek, Jenann Ismael, Owen Maroney, Peter
Menzies, Huw Price and Jonathan
Schaffer. Further details and program here.
Are there any contingent metaphysical truths? If so,
what are they? More details here,
enquiries to Kristie Miller.
A one-day meeting on Foundations of Physics, in
conjunction with a visit by Chris Fuchs
(Perimeter). Details here.
This was the first annual PIAF conference, a product of
a
new collaboration between the University of Sydney, UQ, Griffith and
the Perimeter Institute. It follows our successful PIAF
workshop
in Sydney in February 2008. The conference will focus on the many deep
conceptual and technical issues concerning the role of time in Quantum
Theory. Details here.
A conference on the interconnections between pictorial
and mental representation. Further details here,
enquiries to Ben Blumson.
A one-day satellite meeting of the History of
Quantum Physics project, co-organised with K. Camilleri (University
of Melbourne).
Organised in conjunction with the FOUNDPHYS
network (Paris) and the IGPP (Freiburg),
this conference followed on from the ones in July 2005 in Sydney and
September 2006 in Beuggen (details below). The main topics were the
role of internal and external perspectives, representations, frames of
reference and contexts in various related fields in physics and
philosophy. Further details here.
Huw Price delivered the Inaugural René
Descartes Lectures at the Tilburg
Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science in the Netherlands, from
7-9 May 2008. Draft copies of the lectures are available here.
This one-day mini-conference was held in association
with visits by Warren Goldfarb (Harvard) and Dawn Phillips (Warwick).
Further details here.
The Centre for Time was pleased to be a co-sponsor with the IUEU of this talk by the Amsterdam-based artist, Jane Boyd, who was Artist-in-Residence at Regents Court, Sydney. Further details are available here.
Two short talks on emotions and their place in science
and science fiction, by David Banks (actor
and author, and former Cyberleader from the BBC series Dr Who),
and Paul Griffiths.
This event was organised jointly with the Russellian Society.
Futher details here.
The Centre was pleased to be a sponsor of the Australasian
Postgraduate Philosophy Conference 2008. Details are
available here.
This workshop was the first research meeting of the new Perimeter Institute — Australia Foundations (PIAF) project. The PIAF project links the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada to an Australian network of researchers at the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, and Griffith University. Further details here.
This two-day conference at Tusculum, Potts Point, presented
recent work on
ontological commitment. Confirmed speakers are Berit Brogaard
(Missouri/ANU), Mark Colyvan (Sydney), Uriah Kiegel (Arizona/Sydney),
Kristie Miller (Sydney), Michaelis Michael (UNSW), Luca Moretti
(Sydney), Jonathan Schaffer (ANU)
and Amie Thomasson (Miami). Further details including slides are available here.
Enquiries to Luca
Moretti.
This workshop presented recent work principally by
members of the Centre for Time. Futher details here.
Enquiries to Guido
Bacciagaluppi.
This was the fourth workshop in an interdisciplinary
series on this theme. The first workshop
was held in Venice in May 2004, and details of the second and third
may be found below. Speakers at the 2007 workshop included Maria
Carla Galavotti (Bologna), Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard),
Daniel Hausman (Wisconsin-Madison), Jim Woodward (Caltech), James Joyce
(Michigan), Damien Fennel (LSE), John Campbell (Berkeley), Alison
Gopnik (Berkeley), Josef Perner (Salzburg)
Nancy Cartwright (LSE), Paolo Garbolino (Iuav), Chris Hitchcock
(Caltech), Peter Menzies (Macquarie) and Huw Price (Sydney). A program
is available here.
A meeting on Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism, held in Sydney. Speakers included Simon Blackburn (Cambridge), Bob Brandom (Pittsburgh), Alexis Burgess (Stanford), Jamie Dreier (Brown), Allan Gibbard (Michigan), David Macarthur (Sydney), Philip Pettit (Princeton), Huw Price (Sydney), Geoff Sayre-McCord (UNC, Chapel Hill), Amie Thomasson (Florida) and Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins). Further details here, all enquiries to John Cusbert.
This workshop was held in Sydney, in conjunction with a visit by Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto) and some of his research students. Further details may be found here, and some pictures of the event here.
The Centre was part-sponsor of this workshop on the use of the concept of evidence in the biohumanities, organised by our former Research Development Officer, Dr Jason Grossman.
This year's workshop featured presentations by Guido Bacciagaluppi, Jossi Berkovitz, John Corbett, Jenann Ismael and Huw Price. Further details here. (Audio recordings, etc., will be available shortly.)
A one-day conference featuring recent work on causation and dispositions by postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers, plus a keynote talk by Prof. Peter Menzies (Macquarie). Further details here. (Audio recordings, etc., will be available shortly.)
A one-day conference on agents, minds and collectives, with Philip Pettit, Peter Menzies, John Sutton and Jenann Ismael. Further details including audio recordings are available here.
Organised in conjunction with the IGPP (Freiburg) and the IHPST (Paris), this workshop focussed on the relation between decoherence and the arrow(s) of time, the role of decoherence in approaches to the quantum measurement problem, and generally question about time (a)symmetry in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Further details here.
In association with the CHIMP research network, this meeting featured talks by Hilary Greaves (Rutgers) and Richard Healey (Arizona). Further details here.
This meeting was organised jointly with the Centre for Consciousness at ANU, and was held in Sydney. Speakers included Craig Callender (UCSD), Philippe Chuard (ANU), Barry Dainton (Liverpool), Jordi Fernandez (Macquarie), Simon Haines (ANU), Steven Weinstein (Waterloo) and Jenann Ismael (Sydney). Further details here.
This workshop was held in Sydney, on the theme "Intervention, Time and Physics". Visiting speakers included Craig Callender (UCSD), Richard Corry (Tasmania), Mathias Frisch (Maryland), Chris Hitchcock (Caltech), Doug Kutach (Brown), Cei Maslen (Victoria University, Wellington), Jonathan Schaffer (UMass), Steven Weinstein (Waterloo) and Brad Weslake, Jenann Ismael and Huw Price (Sydney). Further details here.
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.
A one-day mini-conference on anti-realism, with Uriah Kriegel (Arizona and Sydney), Sandy Boucher (Melbourne), Brad Weslake (Sydney), Tama Coutts (Melbourne) and Luca Moretti (Sydney). Full details here.
International visitors for this year's workshop included Guido Bacciagaluppi (Paris), Michael Dickson (South Carolina), Alexei Grinbaum (Paris), Amit Hagar (Konstanz, Delaware) and Veiko Palge (Konstanz). More details, including slides from the talks, are available here.
In association with the Centre, the California Institute of Technology hosted a small workshop on 'Causation, Agency, and Intervention' in November. This was the second workshop in an interdisciplinary series on the theme The Origins and Functions of Causal Thinking. The first workshop in the series was held in Venice, Italy, in May, 2004, and the third is scheduled in Sydney in July, 2006 (see above). Further details of the Caltech workshop are here.
Held in association with a visit by Professor Robert Brandom
(Pittsburgh), this workshop was organised jointly with Paul Redding in
the Department of Philosophy. Speakers included Paul Redding, Bruin
Christensen, David Macarthur, Huw Price, Nicholas Smith and Bob Brandom
himself.
Sound recordings and
slides from the papers from this workshop are now available.
Professor Brandom also delivered a public lecture on Thursday
13 October, entitled 'Reason, Expression and the Philosophic
Enterprise'. This lecture was sponsored and organised in conjunction
with the Research Institute
for Humanities and Social Sciences, and further details are
on the RIHSS website.
In association with the CHIMP research network, these meetings featured talks by Armond Duwell (Thurs 6 October), C K Raju (Thurs 20 October) and Matthew Leifer (Thurs 3 November). See this web page for more details.
An international research workshop on time-symmetric approaches to quantum mechanics. Further details here.
Further details here.
A workshop on the metaphysics of time, held in association with a visit by Ned Markosian. Further details here.
To launch the CHIMP research network, this meeting featured presentations by Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) and Stephen Bartlett (School of Physics, University of Sydney). Further details here.
A workshop featuring visitors Guido Bacciagaluppi (Paris), Chris Fuchs (Bell Labs), and Gerard Milburn (Queensland, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology), plus Huw Price and Doug Kutach from the Centre. Further details here.
The Centre was a co-sponsor of this research workshop, coordinated by John Sutton at Macquarie University. Speakers included Sue Campbell (Dalhousie), Andy Clark (Edinburgh), Christoph Hoerl (Warwick), Jenann Ismael (Arizona), Stephen Muecke (UTS), Mark Rowlands (Hertfordshire), Kate Stevens (University of Western Sydney), Karola Stotz (Pittsburgh), Elizabeth Wilson (Princeton/ Sydney), and Rob Wilson (Alberta). Further details here.
Further details here.
An international conference on the physics and metaphysics of time. Speakers included Tim Maudlin (Rutgers), Steve Savitt (UBC), Mauro Dorato (Rome 3), Carl Hoefer (Barcelona), Stephen Barker (Nottingham), Peter Forrest (UNE), John Bigalow (Monash) and Doug Kutach, David Braddon-Mitchell and Huw Price (Sydney). Click here for further details.
An international interdisciplinary research workshop organised jointly by the Centre and the Facoltà di Design e Arti [Faculty of Arts and Design], IUAV University, in association with the Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna. Further details are here.
A one-day workshop in conjunction with visits to the Centre by Richard Healey (Arizona) and Harvey Brown (Oxford). Speakers were Harvey Brown, Richard Healey, Doug Kutach, and David Miller. Click here for a copy of the program.
A major conference on causation in physics and metaphysics. Speakers included Helen Beebee, Richard Corry, Phil Dowe, Antony Eagle, Adam Elga, Mathias Frisch, Chris Hitchcock, Doug Kutach, Peter Menzies, Daniel Nolan, Huw Price and David Spurrett. Click here for a copy of the program.
Thanks to all speakers and participants for making this conference such a success!
Last update: 17.06.2009.
