The Philosophy of Time Society is pleased to announce the following upcoming events:
Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA
San Francisco, CA, USA
April 16-20, 2025
Anthony Fisher (Gonzaga)
“Making Time: An Ontology of Temporal Fiat Objects”
Cristian Mariani (USI Lugano)
“Time and the Colours of Noise”
Eliška Wichterlová (Boston University)
“Fragmentalism is no Subjectivism”
Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA
Online only. February 20-22 & February 27-March 1, 2025
Paul McKarris (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
“Cartesian Argument for the Reality of Time”
Kyley Ewing (Cape Breton University)
“The Passage of Time and Free Will: Two Illusions in the Block Universe”
Federico Viglione (Università degli Studi di Milano)
“Persisting through the Most Dynamic Time”.
Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA
New York, NY, USA
January 8-11, 2025
Giacomo Andreoletti (University of Salzburg)
“Bayesianism, Time Travel, and Abilities”
Carla Merino-Rajme (UNC Chapel Hill)
“Time’s Passage and the Phenomenology of Change”
Shira Yechimovitz (Tel Aviv University & University of Sydney)
“The Problem of Direction in Dynamic Theories: What’s the Difference Between Beginning and Ceasing to Exist?”
Past meetings:
9th IAPT Conference
Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland
June 24-28, 2024
Invited speakers include:
- Craig Callender
- Fabrice Correia
- Nina Emery
- Kit Fine
- Jenann Ismael
- Tim Maudlin
- Kristie Miller
- Laurie Paul
- Oliver Pooley
- Thomas Sattig
- Daniel Sudarsky
- Emily Thomas
- Christian Wüthrich
More information available at the USI conference website.
Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA
Portland, OR, USA
March 20-23, 2024
Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
Ray Briggs (Stanford University) & Graeme A. Forbes (University of Kent)
“Counterfeasibles”
Giacomo Andreoletti (University of Salzburg)
“Acting in the Garden of Forking Paths”
Kathy Fazekas Englehardt (Coastal Carolina University)
“The Fundamentality and Emergence of Time”
Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA
New Orleans, LO, USA
February 21-24, 2024
Chair: Dana Goswick (University of Melbourne)
Rachel Russell (University College Dublin)
“Timelessness and the A- and B-theories of Time”
Michael Nelson (UC Riverside)
“The Conditions for Objective Becoming”
Kristie Miller (University of Sydney)
“Can We Turn People Into Pain Pumps? On the Rationality of Future Bias and Strong Risk Aversion”
Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA
New York, NY, USA
January 15-18, 2024
Chair: Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College)
Suzuka Komatsu (University of St Andrews)
“A Temporal Perspective, Egocentricity, and Action”
Chris Dorst (University of Florida)
“Productive Laws in Relativistic Spacetimes”
Emily Thomas (Durham University)
“G. E. Moore’s Common Sense Time Realism, Presentism, and A Theory”
8th IAPT Conference
University of Sydney, Australia
July 27-30, 2023
Invited speakers include:
Valtteri Arstila (University of Turku)
Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)
Heather Dyke (University of Otago)
Preston Greene (Nanyang Technological University)
Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick)
Dave Ingram (University of York)
Nihel Jhou (National Taiwan University)
Lisa Leininger (Hobart & William Smith Colleges)
Cristian Mariani (University of Italian Switzerland)
Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham)
Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan)
Full programme available at Centre for Time conference website.
Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA
San Francisco, CA, USA
April 5-8, 2023
Group session time: Wednesday evening, 6.00–9.00pm
Chair: Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke College)
Speakers:
“How Fictional Events Can Be Past, Present, or Future”
Hannah Kim (Macalester College)
“Maudlin on the Passage of Time, Fundamental Laws, and Causation”
Noa Latham (University of Calgary)
“From Temporal Parts to Intrinsic Determinism”
Amy Seymour (Fordham University)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA
Denver, CO, USA
February 22-25, 2023
Group session time: Thursday evening, 7.00–10.00pm
Chair: Caleb Hall (Colorado State University)
Speakers:
“Conscious Worms: On Perdurantism and Phenomenal Consciousness”
Emanuele Tullio (Central European University)
“Insensitive Sufficiency and the Time-Asymmetry of Causation”
Bram Vaassen (Umeå University, Rutgers University)
“Building the Block”
Lucy Mason (King’s College London)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
January 4-7, 2023
Group session time: Friday evening, 7.00–10.00pm
Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
Speakers:
“How to Build a (Dynamic) Theory of Time”
David Ingram (University of York)
“Branching Time and the Specter of Fatalism”
Giacomo Andreoletti (University of Tyumen)
“The Time in Thermal Time”
Eugene Chua (University of California, San Diego)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
April 13-16, 2022
Group meeting time: Wednesday evening, 6-9PM
**UPDATED LINE-UP OF SPEAKERS**
Group session time: TBD
Chair: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)
“Linear Time in Perception and Memory”
Gerardo Viera (University of Sheffield)
“D-Theory of Time, Quantum Gravity and Time’s Arrow”
Luca Gasparinetti (University of Padua)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA
Chicago, IL, USA
February 23-26, 2022
**NOTE: UPDATED SPEAKER LINE-UP**
Group session time: Wednesday, Feb 23rd, 8-11PM
Chair: Adrian Bardon
Speakers:
“Moving from A to B: the Phenomenology of Dynamic B-change”
Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)
“The Dilemma of Selective Experiential Availability”
Emanuele Tullio (Central European University)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA
Baltimore, MD, USA
January 5- 8, 2022
Group session time: TBD
Chair: Richard Hanley (University of Delaware)
Speakers:
“Dynamic Existence and the Logical Turn”
David Ingram (University of York) & Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham)
“Why the Deflationary Account of Passage is not Trivial”
Matias Slavov (Tampere University)
“The Problem of Persistence for the Experience-Based Approaches to Self”
Suzuka Komatsu (Kyoto University)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA
Virtual Meeting
April 5-10, 2021
Group session time: Wednesday, April 7th
Wednesday Afternoon, 11:30am – 2:30pm (PST)
Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
Speakers:
11:30am-12:30PM (PST)
“Sideways Music, Value Asymmetries, and Time”
Sayid Bnefsi (University of California, Irvine)
12:30-1:30PM (PST)
“Representation of Time in the Mind”
Simon Brown (Johns Hopkins University)
1:30-2:30PM(PST)
“Moving Spotlight and Super-time”
Akiko Frischhut (Akita International University) & Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA
February 22-27, 2021
Group session time: Friday, February 26
Friday Morning, 8:00am – 11:00am (CST)
Chair: Cristian Mariani (Institut Néel (CNRS))
Speakers:
“Parts of Enduring Objects”
Nicholas Rimell (Jilin University)
“Time, Metarepresentation, and Metaindexicality”
Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge)
“Quantum Fragmentalism”
Samuele Iaquinto (University of Turin) & Claudio Calosi (University of Geneva)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA
Virtual meeting
January 4-8, 2021
Group session: Friday, January 8
Friday Evening, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (EST)
Chair: Natalja Deng (Yonsei University)
Speakers:
“A Dynamical Perspective on the Arrow of Time”
Kian Salimkhani (University of Cologne)
“Susan Stebbing on the Passage of Time and Common Sense”
Peter West (Durham University)
“Indeterminacy in the Moment of Change”
Martin Pickup (University of Oxford)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA
San Fransisco, CA, USA
April 8-12, 2020
[UPDATE: As of March 12th, the Pacific APA has been cancelled and the Philosophy of Time Society will not be holding its meeting. Meeting will be postponed until the 2021 meeting.]
Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
Speakers:
“Moving Spotlight and Super-time”
Akiko Frischhut (Akita International University) & Giuliano Torrengo (Università degli Studi di Milano and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Representation of Time in the Mind”
Simon Brown (Columbia University)
“Sideways Music Isn’t Music to My Ears”
Sayid Bnefsi (University of California, Irvine)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA
Chicago, IL, USA
February 26-29, 2020
Group Session: Wednesday, February 26, 8-11PM
Chair: Justin Donhauser (Bowling Green State University)
Speakers:
“An Analysis of the Implications of the Priority of McTaggart’s Forgotten C-series”
Justin Donhauser (Bowling Green State University)
“Ontological Implications of Time Travel in General Relativity”
Samuel C. Fletcher (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
“Experiencing Dynamic B-change”
Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
January 8-11, 2020
Group session: Thursday, January 9th 9AM-12PM
Chair: TBD
Speakers:
“Experiencing Time: Behavioral Dispositions and the Temporal Content of Perception”
Alison Springle (University of Pittsburgh) and Rick Grush (University of California, San Diego)
“The Future of the Present”
Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)
“Derivatives and Consciousness”
David Builes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sixth IAPT Meeting
June 24-26, 2019
Boulder, Colorado, USA
The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) will hold its sixth annual conference, which will be hosted by the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS) at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado (USA), from 24th-26th June, 2019 (arrival Sunday 23rd, departure Thursday 27th). The local organizer is Heather Demarest, the program committee is chaired by David Ingram.
Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
April 17-20, 2019
Thursday, April 18th 6-9PM
Chair: Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)
6-6:45pm: “Relationism and the Structure of Time”
Christina Conroy (Morehead State University) and Alastair Wilson (University of Birmingham, UK)
6:45-7:30: “Evolution and Revolutions in the History of British Metaphysics”
Emily Thomas (Durham University)
7:30-9: PANEL: The Experience of Temporal Flow
Panel chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
“The Subject of Experience”
Daria Vitasovic (University of Milan)
“Passage and I: A cognitive error account of temporal experience”
Henry Pollock (University of Leeds)
“What Grounds the Belief that Time Passes”
Valtteri Arstila (University of Turku)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA
Denver, CO, USA
February 20-23, 2019
Wednesday, Feb 20th 8-11PM
Chair: TBD
Speakers:
“Time’s Arrow in a Quantum Universe: On the Status of Statistical Mechanical Probabilities”
Eddy Chen (William & Mary)
“Future-bias and Representation”
Callie K. Phillips (University of Notre Dame)
“Tensed Properties and the Growing Block View of the Nature of Time: An Unsound Objection”
Michael Tooley (University of Colorado–Boulder)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA
New York, NY, USA
January 7-10, 2019
Philosophy of Time Group Session
Monday evening, 6:30-9:30PM
**Please note the order of the presenters, which differs from the original APA program**
Chair: Cristian Mariani (University of Milan)
Speakers:
“The Emergence of Time — The Dynamical Approach to General Relativity”
Bixin Guo (University of Southern California, CA)
“The Metaphysics of Ockamism”
Andrea Iacona (University of Turin, Italy)
“Thank Goodness That’s Not Me”
Sayid Bnefsi (University of California, Irvine, CA)
5th Annual IAPT Conference
Yonsei University, Seoul/Incheon, South Korea
June 18-20, 2018
The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) is pleased to announce its 5th annual conference, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, from 18–20 June 2018 (arrival Sunday June 17th, departure Thursday June 21st).
More information is available on iapt5seoul.weebly.com.
The meeting is being sponsored by Yonsei University, and accommodation expenses for invited speakers are supported in part by the Thomas Jack Lynch Philosophy Fund of Wake Forest University. The organizers are grateful for this support.
Organising Committee: N. Deng (Yonsei), A. Bardon (Wake Forest), C. Callender (San Diego), G. Torrengo (Milan), K. Miller (Sydney), U. Meyer (Colgate), G. A. Forbes (Kent), J. Tallant (Nottingham)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA
San Diego, CA, USA
March 28 – April 1, 2018.
Philosophy of Time Society group session
Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)
Speakers:
“The Coat Problem. Counterfactuals, Truth-makers, and Temporal Specification”
Francesco Gallina and Giuseppe Spolaore (University of Padua, Italy)
“Quantum Mechanics, Time and Ontology”
Valia Allori (Northern Illinois University, IL)
“Modeling Motion Perception in light of Neuropathology”
Adam Bowen (Ball State University, IN)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 21-24, 2018
Philosophy of Time Society group session
Friday evening, 7-10PM
Chair: Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)
“Presentism and Fragmentalist Perdurantism”
Samuele Iaquinto (University of Milan)
“End-Focused Holism and Temporal Neutrality”
Caleb Cohoe (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
“Heidegger’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Time”
Andrew Haas (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA
Savannah, Georgia USA
Jan. 3-6, 2018
Philosophy of Time Society Group Session
Wednesday evening, 6:30-9:30PM
Chair: Sayid Bnefsi (Northern Illinois University)
“The Perceived Unity of Time and Temporal Feature Placing”
Gerardo Viera (University of Antwerp)
Viera – Temp Feature Placing and the Perceived Unity of Time (PTS – EAPA 2018)
“Three Varieties of Growing Block Theory”
Katarina Perovic (The University of Iowa)
“Future Bias and Presentism”
Sayid Bnefsi (Northern Illinois University)
Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Seattle, Washington USA
April 12-15, 2017
Philosophy of Time Society Group Session
(Adrian Bardon, Chair)
“Why be a temporal ersatzer?”
Nina Emery (Brown University)
“The sense of time”
Craig Callender and Ann Thresher (UC San Diego)
“The moving spotlight”
Giuseppe Spolaore (University of Padua) and Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan)
Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Kansas City, Missouri USA
March 1-4, 2017
Philosophy of Time Society Group Session
(Sayid Bnefsi, Chair)
“Do ontologies of time have rational significance? Yes.”
Sayid Bnefsi (Northern Illinois University)
“How to understand presentism”
Travis Matthew Figg (Wayne State University)
“Persistence on the edge”
Nicholas Rimell (University of Virginia)
Pacific APA
San Francisco, CA, USA
March 27 – 31, 2013,
Philosophy of Time Society Group Session
Chair: Noa Latham (University of Calgary)
Speakers:
“The Puzzle of the Present”
Yuri Balashov (University of Georgia)
Commentator: Bradford Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Three Types of Gauge Redundancy and the Problem of Time”
Oliver Pooley (Oxford University)
Commentator: Christian Wüthrich (University of California, San Diego)
“The Passage of Time”
Noa Latham (University of Calgary)
Commentator: Ben Caplan (Ohio State University)
Central APA,
New Orleans, LA, USA
February 20-23, 2013
Philosophy of Time Society Group Session
Chair: Richard Hanley (University of Delaware)
Speakers
“B Theory Passage and Special Relativity”
Kathy Fazekas (University of Connecticut) “B Theory Passage and Special Relativity”
Commentator: Philip R. Corkum (University of Alberta)
“Mental Files and Times”
Vasilis Tsompanidis (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Commentator: MAHRAD ALMOTAHARI (University of Illinois, Chicago)
“Just-So Stories of Affecting the Past”
Richard Hanley (University of Delaware)
Commentator: Richard Hanson (University of Wisconsin Colleges)
Association Eastern Division
Atlanta GA, USA
December 2012
Philosophy of Time Society Group Session
Chair: Yuri Balashov (University of Georgia)
Speakers
“Temporal Mental Qualities and the Illusion of Passage”
Michał Klincewicz (CUNY)
Commentator: Anthony Shiver (University of Georgia)
“Presentism and the Myth of Passage”
Lisa Leininger (University of Maryland)
Commentator: Gregory Moss (University of Georgia)
“Perceptual Atomism and the Charge of Tensed Content”
Adam Bowen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Commentator: Andrei Marasoiu (Georgia State University)
American Philosophical Association Western Division
TBC
Chair: Richard Gawne (Duke University)
Speakers:
“What Is Absolute Time?”
Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)
Commentator: Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham)
“Objections to a Naive Theory of Temporal Perception”
Michael Sigrist (George Washington University)
Commentator: Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University)
“Against the Argument from Experience to Presentism”
Curtis Kehler (University of British Columbia)
Commentator: Richard Gawne (Duke University)
American Philosophical Association Central Division
Chicago, IL, USA
February 2012, Chicago
Chair: L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan-Flint)
Speakers:
“Temporal Experience and the B-theory”
Michelle Beer (Florida International University)
Commentator: L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan-Flint)
“The Advantages of All-Falsism”
Amy Seymour (Notre Dame)
Commentator: Tim Button (Cambridge)
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division
Washington DC, USA
December 2011
Chair: Timothy Schoettle (Messiah College)
Speakers:
“On Some Dis-analogies between Time and Modality”
Takeshi Sakon (Osaka University)
Commentator: Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)
“Sliding Doors”
Clancy Smith (Duquesne University)
Commentator: Melanie Walton (Belmont University)
“Epistemological Puzzle”
Adam Bowen (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Commentator: David Ingram (University of Nottingham)
American Philosophical Association Western Division
San Francisco, CA, USA
April 2010
Chair: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)
Speakers:
“Presentism and the Structure of the Space-Time Manifold”
Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
Commentator: Joseph K. Campbell (Washington State University)
“Three-Dimensionalism”
Joshua Mozersky (Queen’s University)
Commentator: Michael Tooley (University of Colorado, Boulder)
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division
Philadelphia, PA, USA
December 2009
Chair: John W. Lango (Hunter College–City University of New York)
Speakers:
“The A-theory: Change and Measure”
Ted Sider (New York University)
Commentator: Ulrich Meyer
“Motivating Presentism”
Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham)
Commentator: Richard Gawne
“Presentist Time Travel and the Limits of Presentist Causality”
David Pensgard (University of Virginia at Charlottesville Community Scholar Program)
Commentator: Michael Nelson