Centre for Time: Recent submissions
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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 ...Presentation -
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 ...Presentation -
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 ...Recording, oral -
Two Varieties of Causal Anti-Realism
Published 2006-07-19Agency theories of causation have often been criticised for not being sufficiently realist about causation. In my view recent agency theories have not been dialectically effective in addressing this charge. On the one hand ...Presentation