What is time? | Julian Barbour, Tim Maudlin, Alison Fernandes & more
138IAI speakers debate whether time is real and why we seem to experience it.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:39 - Emily Thomas: The historic philosophy of time
03:20 - Peter Sjöstedt-H: Why might time not be real?
08:26 - Erik Verlinde: A quantum mechanical explanation
13:04 - Tim Maudlin: Why time does go forward
15:21 - Alison Fernandes: How psychology explains our experience of time
18:00 - Julian Barbour: A Newtonian alternative to space-time
20:18- Eleanor Knox: Does time have a unique metaphysical character?
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Emily Thomas is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. She has written extensively on space and time in seventeenth to early twentieth century philosophy.
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H is a philosopher of mind who specialises in the thought of Whitehead and Nietzsche, and in fields pertaining to panpsychism and altered states of sentience. He is a Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer the University of Exeter.
Erik Verlinde is a theoretical physicist and string theorist. The Verlinde formula, which is important in conformal field theory and topological field theory, is named after him. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam.
Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic. He is Professor off Philosophy of at NYU.
Alison Fernandes is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Her work in metaphysics and philosophy of science has a particular focus on temporal asymmetries, physics and agency.
Julian Barbour is a physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science. He holds a PhD on the foundations of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity from the University of Cologne.
Eleanor Knox is a reader in Philosophy at King's College London. Much of her work focuses on the foundations of spacetime physics, aiming to solve problems in classical spacetime theories and challenges raised by emergent spacetime structure in theories of quantum gravity.
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