Centre for Time: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Two bits of Nous from 1979
Published 2006-07-19Tram drivers know where their vehicles are bound, and don't have to decide to take them there, rather than somewhere else; the tramlines take care of it. Bus drivers know where their vehicles are headed, too, but without ...Open AccessPresentation -
Entropy, Interventions and Causation
Published 2006-07-20Possible connections between thermodynamics and the causal asymmetryOpen AccessPresentation