Past meetings:

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Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA

Portland, OR, USA
March 20-23, 2024

Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)

Ray Briggs (Stanford University) & Graeme A. Forbes (University of Kent)

“Counterfeasibles”

Giacomo Andreoletti (University of Salzburg)

“Acting in the Garden of Forking Paths”

Kathy Fazekas Englehardt (Coastal Carolina University)

“The Fundamentality and Emergence of Time”

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA

New Orleans, LO, USA
February 21-24, 2024

Chair: Dana Goswick (University of Melbourne)

Rachel Russell (University College Dublin)

“Timelessness and the A- and B-theories of Time”

Michael Nelson (UC Riverside)

“The Conditions for Objective Becoming”

Kristie Miller (University of Sydney)

“Can We Turn People Into Pain Pumps? On the Rationality of Future Bias and Strong Risk Aversion”

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA

New York, NY, USA
January 15-18, 2024

Chair: Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College)

Suzuka Komatsu (University of St Andrews)

“A Temporal Perspective, Egocentricity, and Action”

Chris Dorst (University of Florida)

“Productive Laws in Relativistic Spacetimes”

Emily Thomas (Durham University)

“G. E. Moore’s Common Sense Time Realism, Presentism, and A Theory”

8th IAPT Conference

University of Sydney, Australia
July 27-30, 2023

Invited speakers include:

Valtteri Arstila (University of Turku)

Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)

Heather Dyke (University of Otago)

Preston Greene (Nanyang Technological University)

Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick)

Dave Ingram (University of York)

Nihel Jhou (National Taiwan University)

Lisa Leininger (Hobart & William Smith Colleges)

Cristian Mariani (University of Italian Switzerland)

Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham)

Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan)

Full programme available at Centre for Time conference website.

Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA

San Francisco, CA, USA
April 5-8, 2023

Group session time: Wednesday evening, 6.00–9.00pm

Chair: Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke College)

Speakers:

“How Fictional Events Can Be Past, Present, or Future”
Hannah Kim (Macalester College)

“Maudlin on the Passage of Time, Fundamental Laws, and Causation”
Noa Latham (University of Calgary)

“From Temporal Parts to Intrinsic Determinism”
Amy Seymour (Fordham University)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA

Denver, CO, USA
February 22-25, 2023

Group session time: Thursday evening, 7.00–10.00pm

Chair: Caleb Hall (Colorado State University)

Speakers:

“Conscious Worms: On Perdurantism and Phenomenal Consciousness”
Emanuele Tullio (Central European University)

“Insensitive Sufficiency and the Time-Asymmetry of Causation”
Bram Vaassen (Umeå University, Rutgers University)

“Building the Block”
Lucy Mason (King’s College London)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA

Montréal, Quebec, Canada
January 4-7, 2023

Group session time: Friday evening, 7.00–10.00pm

Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)

Speakers:

“How to Build a (Dynamic) Theory of Time”
David Ingram (University of York)

“Branching Time and the Specter of Fatalism”
Giacomo Andreoletti (University of Tyumen)

“The Time in Thermal Time”
Eugene Chua (University of California, San Diego)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
April 13-16, 2022

Group meeting time: Wednesday evening, 6-9PM

**UPDATED LINE-UP OF SPEAKERS**

Group session time: TBD

Chair: Steven Savitt (University of British Columbia)

“Linear Time in Perception and Memory”
Gerardo Viera (University of Sheffield)

“D-Theory of Time, Quantum Gravity and Time’s Arrow”
Luca Gasparinetti (University of Padua)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA

Chicago, IL, USA
February 23-26, 2022

**NOTE: UPDATED SPEAKER LINE-UP**

Group session time: Wednesday, Feb 23rd, 8-11PM

Chair: Adrian Bardon

Speakers:

“Moving from A to B: the Phenomenology of Dynamic B-change”
Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)

“The Dilemma of Selective Experiential Availability”
Emanuele Tullio (Central European University)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA

Baltimore, MD, USA
January 5- 8, 2022

Group session time: TBD

Chair: Richard Hanley (University of Delaware)

Speakers:

“Dynamic Existence and the Logical Turn”
David Ingram (University of York) & Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham)

“Why the Deflationary Account of Passage is not Trivial”
Matias Slavov (Tampere University)

“The Problem of Persistence for the Experience-Based Approaches to Self”
Suzuka Komatsu (Kyoto University)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA

Virtual Meeting
April 5-10, 2021

Group session time: Wednesday, April 7th
Wednesday Afternoon, 11:30am – 2:30pm (PST)

Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)

Speakers:

11:30am-12:30PM (PST)
“Sideways Music, Value Asymmetries, and Time”
Sayid Bnefsi (University of California, Irvine)

12:30-1:30PM (PST)
“Representation of Time in the Mind”
Simon Brown (Johns Hopkins University)

1:30-2:30PM(PST)
“Moving Spotlight and Super-time”
Akiko Frischhut (Akita International University) & Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA

February 22-27, 2021

Group session time: Friday, February 26

Friday Morning, 8:00am – 11:00am (CST)

Chair: Cristian Mariani (Institut Néel (CNRS))

Speakers:

“Parts of Enduring Objects”
Nicholas Rimell (Jilin University)

“Time, Metarepresentation, and Metaindexicality”
Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge)

“Quantum Fragmentalism”
Samuele Iaquinto (University of Turin) & Claudio Calosi (University of Geneva)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA

Virtual meeting
January 4-8, 2021

Group session: Friday, January 8
Friday Evening, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (EST)

Chair: Natalja Deng (Yonsei University)

Speakers:

“A Dynamical Perspective on the Arrow of Time”
Kian Salimkhani (University of Cologne)

“Susan Stebbing on the Passage of Time and Common Sense”
Peter West (Durham University)

“Indeterminacy in the Moment of Change”
Martin Pickup (University of Oxford)

“Sideways Music Isn’t Music to My Ears”
Sayid Bnefsi (University of California, Irvine)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA

Chicago, IL, USA
February 26-29, 2020

Group Session: Wednesday, February 26, 8-11PM

Chair: Justin Donhauser (Bowling Green State University)

Speakers:

“An Analysis of the Implications of the Priority of McTaggart’s Forgotten C-series”
Justin Donhauser (Bowling Green State University)

“Ontological Implications of Time Travel in General Relativity”
Samuel C. Fletcher (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

“Experiencing Dynamic B-change”
Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA

Philadelphia, PA, USA
January 8-11, 2020

Group session: Thursday, January 9th 9AM-12PM

Chair: TBD

Speakers:

“Experiencing Time: Behavioral Dispositions and the Temporal Content of Perception”
Alison Springle (University of Pittsburgh) and Rick Grush (University of California, San Diego)

“The Future of the Present”
Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)

“Derivatives and Consciousness”
David Builes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Sixth IAPT Meeting

June 24-26, 2019
Boulder, Colorado, USA

The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) will hold its sixth annual conference, which will be hosted by the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS) at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado (USA), from 24th-26th June, 2019 (arrival Sunday 23rd, departure Thursday 27th). The local organizer is Heather Demarest, the program committee is chaired by David Ingram.

Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA

Vancouver, B.C., Canada
April 17-20, 2019

Thursday, April 18th 6-9PM

Chair: Maria Balcells (Bucknell University)

6-6:45pm: “Relationism and the Structure of Time”
Christina Conroy (Morehead State University) and Alastair Wilson (University of Birmingham, UK)

6:45-7:30: “Evolution and Revolutions in the History of British Metaphysics”
Emily Thomas (Durham University)

7:30-9: PANEL: The Experience of Temporal Flow

Panel chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)

“The Subject of Experience”
Daria Vitasovic (University of Milan)

“Passage and I: A cognitive error account of temporal experience”
Henry Pollock (University of Leeds)

“What Grounds the Belief that Time Passes”
Valtteri Arstila (University of Turku)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA

Denver, CO, USA
February 20-23, 2019

Wednesday, Feb 20th 8-11PM

Chair: TBD

Speakers:

“Time’s Arrow in a Quantum Universe: On the Status of Statistical Mechanical Probabilities”
Eddy Chen (William & Mary)

“Future-bias and Representation”
Callie K. Phillips (University of Notre Dame)

“Tensed Properties and the Growing Block View of the Nature of Time: An Unsound Objection”
Michael Tooley (University of Colorado–Boulder)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA

New York, NY, USA
January 7-10, 2019

Philosophy of Time Group Session
Monday evening,  6:30-9:30PM

**Please note the order of the presenters, which differs from the original APA program**

Chair: Cristian Mariani (University of Milan)

Speakers:

“The Emergence of Time  — The Dynamical Approach to General Relativity”
Bixin Guo (University of Southern California, CA)

“The Metaphysics of Ockamism”
Andrea Iacona (University of Turin, Italy)

“Thank Goodness That’s Not Me”
Sayid Bnefsi (University of California, Irvine, CA)

5th Annual IAPT Conference

Yonsei University, Seoul/Incheon, South Korea
June 18-20, 2018

Philosophy of Time Society at the Pacific APA

San Diego, CA, USA
March 28 – April 1, 2018.

Philosophy of Time Society group session

Chair: Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest University)

Speakers:

“The Coat Problem. Counterfactuals, Truth-makers, and Temporal Specification”
Francesco Gallina and Giuseppe Spolaore (University of Padua, Italy)

“Quantum Mechanics, Time and Ontology”
Valia Allori (Northern Illinois University, IL)

“Modeling Motion Perception in light of Neuropathology”
Adam Bowen (Ball State University, IN)

Philosophy of Time Society at the Central APA

Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 21-24, 2018

Philosophy of Time Society at the Eastern APA

Savannah, Georgia USA
Jan. 3-6, 2018

Philosophy of Time Society Group Session
Wednesday evening, 6:30-9:30PM

Chair: Sayid Bnefsi (Northern Illinois University)

“The Perceived Unity of Time and Temporal Feature Placing”
Gerardo Viera (University of Antwerp)

Viera – Temp Feature Placing and the Perceived Unity of Time (PTS – EAPA 2018)

“Three Varieties of Growing Block Theory”
Katarina Perovic (The University of Iowa)

“Future Bias and Presentism”
Sayid Bnefsi (Northern Illinois University)

Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association

“Persistence on the edge”
Nicholas Rimell (University of Virginia)

Pacific APA

San Francisco, CA, USA
March 27 – 31, 2013,

Philosophy of Time Society Group Session

Chair: Noa Latham (University of Calgary)

Speakers:

“The Puzzle of the Present”
Yuri Balashov (University of Georgia)

Commentator: Bradford Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

“Three Types of Gauge Redundancy and the Problem of Time”
Oliver Pooley (Oxford University)

Commentator: Christian Wüthrich (University of California, San Diego)

“The Passage of Time”
Noa Latham (University of Calgary)

Commentator: Ben Caplan (Ohio State University)

Central APA,

New Orleans, LA, USA
February 20-23, 2013

Philosophy of Time Society Group Session

Chair: Richard Hanley (University of Delaware)

Speakers

“B Theory Passage and Special Relativity”
Kathy Fazekas (University of Connecticut) “B Theory Passage and Special Relativity”

Commentator: Philip R. Corkum (University of Alberta)

“Mental Files and Times”
Vasilis Tsompanidis (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Commentator: MAHRAD ALMOTAHARI (University of Illinois, Chicago)

“Just-So Stories of Affecting the Past”
Richard Hanley (University of Delaware)

Commentator: Richard Hanson (University of Wisconsin Colleges)