Training school 1
PhD Course/Training School:
The philosophy of time.
Aalborg University, Feb. 15-17, 2011
The Research School under PhD programme in Human Centered Communication and Informatics (HCCI) at Aalborg University, Denmark, in co-operation with the TIMELY project is organising a PhD Course/Training School on the philosophy of time. The main focus of the course will be on the conceptual and philosophical analysis of time and the review of the operational definitions of the various aspects of time perception that may provide a common-interdisciplinary grounding of the concept of time.
The course will also cover more specific themes from the study of time such as
- Time and human experience
- Static and dynamic time
- Metaphysics of time
- The logic of time
- Ideas of time in modern society
DAY 1 – February 15th, 2011
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9:30 |
Coffee & Welcome |
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10:00 |
Introduction - Peter Øhrstrøm |
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10:15 |
Time consciousness: philosophical issues – Bruno Mölder |
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12:15 |
Lunch Break |
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13:15 |
Temporal cognition: philosophical and psychological issues I – Valtteri Arstila |
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14:00 |
Coffee Break |
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14:15 |
Temporal cognition: philosophical and psychological issues II – Valtteri Arstila |
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15:00 |
Discussion & Closing of the day |
DAY 2 – February 16th, 2011
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9:30 |
Coffee & Welcome |
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10:00 |
The Metaphysics of Time I - Sean Power |
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10:45 |
‘Now’ and the Present: An Essay on the Semantics of Tense - Richard Gawne |
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11:30 |
Prior and His Notion of the Present - David Jakobsen |
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12:15 |
Lunch Break |
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13:15 |
Issues in Temporal Logic – Peter Øhrstrøm |
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14:00 |
Coffee Break |
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14:15 |
From Ockham to the Thin Red Line - Alex Malpass |
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15:00 |
The Truth About the Future - Jacek Wawer |
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15:45 |
Discussion & Closing of the day |
DAY 3 – February 17th, 2011
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9:30 |
Coffee & Welcome |
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10:00 |
The Metaphysics of Time II - Sean Power |
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12:00 |
Lunch Break |
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13:00 |
Dynamic perception of time in metrical music - Vassilis Angelis |
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14:00 |
Coffee Break |
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14:15 |
John R. Hicks and his a lifelong struggle to bring economic theory close to
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15:15 |
Discussion & Closing of the day |