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Jill North, The Direction of Time 3:00 pm
Jill North, The Direction of Time @ Rutgers Philosophy Dept
Oct 11 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Direction of Time Location Rutgers Philosophy Department, 106 Somerset St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time 4:00 pm
Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time @ NYU Professional Studies, room 125
Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Loewer distinguishes two approaches to laws and time: Humean accounts, which deny primitive modality and explain temporal asymmetries in scientific terms, and non-Humean accounts that take temporal asymmetry and modality to be metaphysically fundamental. I’ll argue that Loewer neglects an important third approach: deny metaphysical claims about fundamentality, and explain temporal asymmetries as well as the function of modal entities in scientific terms. This pragmatist approach provides a clear ontology to science, and, and unlike[...]
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