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Building on my … 4 Oct 2019 15:10 - 16:00 Event Filipe Drapeau Contim Presentism and the problem of the ready-made past Symposium Abstract Presentism is the thesis that only the present exists, and that the past and future are nothing. One of its motivations is to account for the passage of time, which it makes consist of an ontological flow: to become present is to enter existence, … 4 Oct 2019 14:20 - 15:10 Event Alexandre Declos A defense of the old B theory of time Symposium Abstract The "old B theory" of time is an ontological-semantic thesis, according to which it is possible to eliminate, via a method of logical paraphrase, the belief that objects and events transit in time. This doctrine had its eminent defenders in the … 4 Oct 2019 11:50 - 12:40 Event Sébastien Richard Being and identity through time Symposium Abstract In order to solve the problem of identity through time of ordinary objects, Roderick Chisholm was led to distinguish two types of entities and two types of identity relations. In this lecture, I will defend Chisholm's theory by adding the thesis … 4 Oct 2019 11:00 - 11:50 Event Jean-Pascal Anfray The foundation of contingent futures and the coherence of Ockhamism Symposium Abstract In discussions of contingent futures such as "there will be a naval battle tomorrow", the "Ockhamist" position is defined by the recognition of an objective asymmetry between the past, which is necessary, and the future, which is partly … 4 Oct 2019 09:50 - 10:40 Event Philippe Huneman Moderate pluralism for time in the natural sciences : irreversibility, time scales and model dependence Symposium Abstract Philosophical tradition often opposes the time of consciousness or the subject, and the time of nature or the world, thus drawing a division between the great philosophers of time - Kant, Augustine or Husserl vs. Aristotle, Newton, Bergson. Where … 3 Oct 2019 16:35 - 17:35 Event Anouk Barberousse How is the examination of physical theories relevant to the metaphysical inquiry into time ? Symposium Abstract Since Newton's mechanics, time has had a special status in physical theories. On the one hand, it appears as a quantity like any other, represented by certain mathematical symbols. But on the other, its role as a quantity is different from that … 3 Oct 2019 15:45 - 16:35 Event Nikk Effingham The Wave Theory of Time Symposium 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, … 3 Oct 2019 14:35 - 15:45 Event Baptiste Le Bihan String theory, loop quantum gravity and eternalism Symposium 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 … 3 Oct 2019 13:45 - 14:35 Event Vincent Grandjean Towards a redefinition of theories of time Symposium 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 … 3 Oct 2019 11:15 - 12:05 Event Jiri Benovsky Theory A of time, passage of time, endurantism, and metaphysical insights Symposium 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. … 3 Oct 2019 10:05 - 10:55 Event Robin Le Poidevin Memory, McTaggart and the Descriptive Metaphysics of Time Symposium 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 … 3 Oct 2019 09:15 - 10:05 Series Applied mathematics Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Seminar 10 Nov 2017 → 22 Jun 2018 Series On scalar conservation laws Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Lecture This year 's lecture focused on first-order hyperbolic systems known as " scalar conservation laws ". A considerable literature exists on this subject from the work of P. Lax, O. Oleinik and the important theory of S. N. Kruzkhov to recent developments . … 10 Nov 2017 → 19 Jan 2018 Event Eric Deeds The Evolution of Cellular Individuality Seminar 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 … 8 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:00 Event Pierre-Louis Lions HJB, MFG and others (continued) (1) Lecture 8 Nov 2019 09:00 - 11:00 Series Olive trees and olive oil in antiquity (1) Jean-Pierre Brun, chair Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar 07 Nov 2017 → 12 Dec 2017 Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (2) Lecture 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 … 7 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30 Series Mani's Book of Pictures: A Late Antique Mesopotamian pictorial roll and its 1000-year history Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia Guest lecturer 25 Oct 2017 Event Barbara Romanowicz Teleseismic travel time tomography ( Travel time tomography ) Lecture 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 … 5 Nov 2019 16:00 - 18:00 Event Walter Fontana Inheriting biological information : transmission limits Lecture 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 … 5 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30 Event Philippe Aghion Counterpowers (2) Lecture 5 Nov 2019 14:00 - 16:00 Event Hugues de Thé Senescence and therapeutic response (2) Lecture 4 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 411 Page 412 Page 413 Page 414 Current page 415 Page 416 Page 417 Page 418 Page 419 … Next page Last page
Event Jean-Baptiste Guillon Self-experience and common-sense presentism Symposium Abstract In the debate between Presentists and Eternalists, it's not uncommon to hear the former claim support for the intuitions of Common Sense. The latter might then consider Common Sense to be of little weight in the matter, but Baptiste Le Bihan … 4 Oct 2019 16:20 - 17:10
Event Francesco Orilia Presentism and Moderate Presentism: Motivations and Objections Symposium Abstract According to presentism, only what is present exists. According to moderate presentism, only present events exists, which rules out past and future events, but leaves room, in some sense, for past and future times and objects. Building on my … 4 Oct 2019 15:10 - 16:00
Event Filipe Drapeau Contim Presentism and the problem of the ready-made past Symposium Abstract Presentism is the thesis that only the present exists, and that the past and future are nothing. One of its motivations is to account for the passage of time, which it makes consist of an ontological flow: to become present is to enter existence, … 4 Oct 2019 14:20 - 15:10
Event Alexandre Declos A defense of the old B theory of time Symposium Abstract The "old B theory" of time is an ontological-semantic thesis, according to which it is possible to eliminate, via a method of logical paraphrase, the belief that objects and events transit in time. This doctrine had its eminent defenders in the … 4 Oct 2019 11:50 - 12:40
Event Sébastien Richard Being and identity through time Symposium Abstract In order to solve the problem of identity through time of ordinary objects, Roderick Chisholm was led to distinguish two types of entities and two types of identity relations. In this lecture, I will defend Chisholm's theory by adding the thesis … 4 Oct 2019 11:00 - 11:50
Event Jean-Pascal Anfray The foundation of contingent futures and the coherence of Ockhamism Symposium Abstract In discussions of contingent futures such as "there will be a naval battle tomorrow", the "Ockhamist" position is defined by the recognition of an objective asymmetry between the past, which is necessary, and the future, which is partly … 4 Oct 2019 09:50 - 10:40
Event Philippe Huneman Moderate pluralism for time in the natural sciences : irreversibility, time scales and model dependence Symposium Abstract Philosophical tradition often opposes the time of consciousness or the subject, and the time of nature or the world, thus drawing a division between the great philosophers of time - Kant, Augustine or Husserl vs. Aristotle, Newton, Bergson. Where … 3 Oct 2019 16:35 - 17:35
Event Anouk Barberousse How is the examination of physical theories relevant to the metaphysical inquiry into time ? Symposium Abstract Since Newton's mechanics, time has had a special status in physical theories. On the one hand, it appears as a quantity like any other, represented by certain mathematical symbols. But on the other, its role as a quantity is different from that … 3 Oct 2019 15:45 - 16:35
Event Nikk Effingham The Wave Theory of Time Symposium 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, … 3 Oct 2019 14:35 - 15:45
Event Baptiste Le Bihan String theory, loop quantum gravity and eternalism Symposium 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 … 3 Oct 2019 13:45 - 14:35
Event Vincent Grandjean Towards a redefinition of theories of time Symposium 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 … 3 Oct 2019 11:15 - 12:05
Event Jiri Benovsky Theory A of time, passage of time, endurantism, and metaphysical insights Symposium 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. … 3 Oct 2019 10:05 - 10:55
Event Robin Le Poidevin Memory, McTaggart and the Descriptive Metaphysics of Time Symposium 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 … 3 Oct 2019 09:15 - 10:05
Series Applied mathematics Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Seminar 10 Nov 2017 → 22 Jun 2018
Series On scalar conservation laws Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Lecture This year 's lecture focused on first-order hyperbolic systems known as " scalar conservation laws ". A considerable literature exists on this subject from the work of P. Lax, O. Oleinik and the important theory of S. N. Kruzkhov to recent developments . … 10 Nov 2017 → 19 Jan 2018
Event Eric Deeds The Evolution of Cellular Individuality Seminar 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 … 8 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:00
Series Olive trees and olive oil in antiquity (1) Jean-Pierre Brun, chair Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar 07 Nov 2017 → 12 Dec 2017
Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (2) Lecture 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 … 7 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30
Series Mani's Book of Pictures: A Late Antique Mesopotamian pictorial roll and its 1000-year history Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia Guest lecturer 25 Oct 2017
Event Barbara Romanowicz Teleseismic travel time tomography ( Travel time tomography ) Lecture 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 … 5 Nov 2019 16:00 - 18:00
Event Walter Fontana Inheriting biological information : transmission limits Lecture 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 … 5 Nov 2019 14:00 - 15:30