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Abstract This paper presents a new temporal ontology, to compete with presentism, eternalism, etc. Like moving spotlight theory, wave theory says (i) that there exist four-dimensional hunks of matter and (ii) the world is fundamentally tensed. However, …

Abstract Eternalism, the thesis that past and future entities exist in the same way as present ones, is a natural philosophical interpretation of special relativity and general relativity. However, these two theories are not fundamental, and several …

Abstract The metaphysical Growing Block Theory seems particularly well-suited to account for some of our fundamental intuitions about time: time has a direction, our present extends to the whole universe, the past is closed while the future is open, and …

Abstract When the "new" B-theory of time emerged in the 1980s, its proponents typically conceded that our ordinary conceptual scheme represents the presentness of events as non-perspectival, while insisting that in reality presentness is purely …

Abstract Intuitions about the passage of time or the idea that objects persist through time by being numerically identical and fully localized at different instants play an important role in some arguments in favor of the A theory of time or endurantism. …

Prof. Deeds performed his undergraduate work at Case Western Reserve University and graduated with degrees in Biochemistry and English Literature. He pursued his Ph.D. studies in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard under the …

Le Périple de la mer Erythrée  : les voyages en Inde et en Afrique orientale (suite). The question of Rhapta, the last emporion on the east coast of Africa. Libyan voyages (Phoenician, Egyptian, Persian). Hannon's journey . The circumnavigations of …

Continuing in the second lecture, we progressively established the essential elements for building tomographic models of the Earth's mantle : types of data, level of approximation of wave propagation theory, physical and geometric parameterization of the …

The second unit of the lecture focused on the evolutionary propagation of information, as seen through the classical model of Manfred Eigen, in which sequences reproduce with errors in a flow reactor. The model gives rise to a system of differential …

Edith Heard is Professor at the Collège de France. Trained as a geneticist, she heads the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit and the Mammalian Epigenesis and Development team at the Institut Curie. For several years, she has been studying epigenetic …

The African continent : some problems of representation and naming. How the " imago " of Africa is constructed : medieval European maps. The representation of Africa in planispheres from the Ptolemaic tradition to the Renaissance. The words " Africa " and …

The first lecture provided a brief reminder of the wave equation and its solutions in an isotropic or anisotropic elastic medium, as well as the different types of seismic waves, and grape theory, which makes it possible to follow the path of …

The first unit of the lecture dealt with the evolutionary problem of phenotypic innovation, i.e. trying to understand why the consequences of random genetic mutations are not random. One answer is that the modification of a phenotype is made possible by …

A Collège de France - CNRS coproduction Abstract The opening lecture focused on the laws of psychology and the research strategies that could establish them. "Psychology is the science of mental life" Thus, in 1890, William James defined the field of what …