Thank you very much to the speakers and audience for an excellent workshop !
See the photos below
We are happy to announce our next workshop:
Grounding the Quantum World – 19th of September
Photos
*If you would like some picture of you taken offline, please let us know at benjamin.neeser@unine.ch.
The Metaphysics of Time and its Occupants SNSF project (Neuchâtel) and the Centre for the Philosophy of Time (Milan) are glad to announce the upcoming
International Workshop on
“Spacetime and Fundamentality”
17th of June 2016
University of Neuchâtel
See the poster of the workshop • Find us on PhilEvents
Speakers and schedule*
Morning
| 9.30 – 10.45 | Oliver Pooley (Oxford) | “Fundamentality and the Dynamical Approach to Relativity” |
| 11.00 – 12.15 | Martin Lipman (Hamburg) | “In Defence of a Fragmentalist Interpretation of Special Relativity” |
| 12.30 | Lunch break (Bach & Buck) |
Afternoon
| 14:30 – 15.45 | Alastair Wilson (Birmingham) (over Skype) | “Emergent Spacetime: Grounded or Caused?” |
| 15.45 | Coffee break | |
| 16.15 – 17.30 | Jessica Wilson (Toronto) | “How to be a Spacetime Relationalist – or a Substantivalist” |
| 19.30———– | Conference dinner (La Fuge) |
*We are sad to announce that Lisa Leininger had to cancel her talk. See the new schedule above.
Time and venue
Friday 17th of June, from 9.30 am to 6 pm
Room D71, Main Building, University of Neuchâtel
26, Avenue du Premier-Mars, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Registration and meals
For practical purposes, we would like to kindly request anyone planning to attend the workshop to register by June 10th.
If possible, please indicate as well whether you intend to have lunch (Bach & Buck; budget) and / or dinner (La Fuge; mid-range) with the speakers and the organizers.
Attendance is free, but we cannot cover your meals.
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