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Art, Time and Consciousness
Published 2006-07-22Philosophical conceptions of time seem to fall into two groups, “flow” (river, arrow) and “block”: both of them spatialised. Kant was an important exception, and modern subjectivist thinking about time, or about the ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Causal Asymmetry and Culpability
Published 2006-07-20In developing an adequate explanation for causal asymmetry it is important to distinguish two importantly different applications of the concept of causation. One role for causation is in prediction. Knowledge of causal ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Causation and Reductive Explanation
Published 2006-07-20One of the most powerful tools in science is the method of reductive explanation, where we explain the behaviour of a complex system in terms of the behaviour of the parts from which it is composed. In order to employ this ...Open AccessPresentation -
Death
Published 2006-06-08We don't like to think about death. In fact, we do everything we can to avoid it. Is it something to be feared? Why? Who does death harm? What kind of a loss is involved in the loss of a human life? Does the finitude of ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
The Dimensionality of Time
Published 2006-07-23Many philosophers have concluded that Kant was wrong about space, the form of outer experience - that the space of our experience is not necessarily Euclidean. Be that as it may, one can nevertheless ask whether he was ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Elusive Causation
Published 2006-07-19David Lewis claimed that knowledge is elusive. "That is how knowledge is elusive. Examine it, and straightway it vanishes..." He argued that epistemology robs us of our knowledge: "Maybe epistemology is the culprit. Maybe ...Open AccessPresentation -
Entropy, Interventions and Causation
Published 2006-07-20Possible connections between thermodynamics and the causal asymmetryOpen AccessPresentation -
Folk Physics, Intervention and the Concept of Cause
Published 2006-07-19Our interventions in the world are guided by our folk physical theories of how the world works. For example, we know that we can move an object by pushing it with a stick, but not by pushing it with a rope. Nothing could ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Intervention and Contrastivity
Published 2006-07-20Jim Woodward has suggested that that interventionism presupposes a conception of causation that is contrastive for both cause and effect. I will discuss the extent to which contrastivity is presupposed in the notions of ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Memory and Temporal Awareness
Published 2006-07-23Memories have content in that they can be correct or incorrect. In addition, memories have an interesting phenomenological feature: If a subject remembers some event, then that event is presented to her as taking place in ...Open AccessPresentation -
Memory and Temporal Phenomenology
Published 2006-07-22In the general project of trying to reconcile the objective view of the world with the subjective view, analytic philosophy in recent years, has been almost solely focused on sensory phenomenology. But there is at least ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Mental Causation and the Determination Relation
Published 2006-12-04Stephen Yablo's influential article "Mental Causation" made an interesting new move in the philosophical debate about the exclusion problem about mental causation. He observed that (i) determinables are not excluded from ...Open AccessConference paper -
Nonlocal causation in Maxwell theory
Published 2006-07-21Maxwell's equations were the inspiration for special relativity and the principle of relativistic "causality", whereby spacelike-separated events are understood to be causally independent. In this talk, I will show that ...Open AccessPresentation -
Projectivism and Experiences of Temporal Properties
Published 2006-07-22Among the many ways in which, it seems, we can be conscious of time, there is the sensory perception of certain temporal properties. Many of perceptual experiences seem capable of representing properties such as (i) the ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Rationality, reasoning and regulation: the case of group agents
Published 2006-12-04Note: The audio file features Philip Pettit's paper, entitiled "Rationality, reasoning and regulation: the case of group agents," followed by commentary from Katie Steele, then discussion. Abstract for Pettit's paper: ...Open AccessPresentation -
Remembering together: is there a social ontology of memory?
Published 2006-12-04In analysing certain integrated collectivities as group subjects or institutional persons, Philip Pettit stresses that such collectivities engage in a social form of self-regulation by collectivizing reason in the service ...Open AccessPresentation -
Roundtable discussion
Published 2006-07-23David Chalmers will chair a discussion of issues arising from the conference.Open AccessRecording, oral -
Self-organizing collections and collective agents
Published 2006-12-04Advances in understanding self-organization over the past few decades have led to the temptation to extend it to a model of human cognition. The extension is supported by new insights in situated cognition and success in ...Open AccessPresentation -
The Specious Present
Published 2006-07-22William James characterised the specious present as 'the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible'. The doctrine that our conscious awareness is not instantaneous, but rather spans a short ...Open AccessPresentation -
The Subjectivity of the Present
Published 2006-07-23Perhaps the most compelling argument for the tensed theory of time ˜ and in particular the idea of a global monadic present or now ˜ has always been that it is the best explanation of temporal experience. Most detensers ...Open AccessPresentation