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The Metaphysics of Time Continuum

Summer school
The Metaphysics of Time Continuum
2 - 4 September 2019
Imperia, Italy

The summer school “The Metaphysics of Time-Continuum” addresses the problems posed by the continuity of time by focusing on three key figures in the history of the concept: Aristotle, Kant and Bergson. These figures' understanding of the continuum will be studied in-depth, focusing on the following questions:

  • Does time have a continuous structure? If yes, how is temporal continuity to be understood?
  • How does the continuity differ from that of space?
  • What consequences do particular understandings of temporal continuity have for a temporal ontology?

These questions will be further investigated and related to questions in the contemporary philosophy of time in the conference "Time-Continuum" following the summer school.

The summer school will be structured in the following way. Each day will be focusing on a different historical figure, with two 1,5 hours sessions in the morning and an 1,5 hour discussion in the afternoon. The first session will give an introductory overview of the author's account of time and its continuity. The second session will be more in-depth and the speakers will present their own take on the respective author. In the afternoon session, a paper will be discussed in group. The topic of the paper will be closely related to that of the morning’s session in order to give students the opportunity to develop their own thoughts.

Welcome to the conference are postgraduate students and young researchers interested in the philosophy of time or in the authors discussed.

Lecturers
Tom Crowther (University of Warwick) - Aristotle, Analytic Philosophy of Mind, Time and Metaphysics
Florian Fischer (University of Siegen) - Analytic Philosophy of Time, Dispositions, Bergson
Cord Friebe (University of Siegen) - Kant, Analytic Philosophy of Time, Philosophy of Physics and Metaphysics
Marcello Garibbo (University of Siegen) - Kant, Philosophy of Time
Mark Sinclair (University of Rohampton) - Bergson, ​Philosophy of Time

Program

Monday, 2 September 2019 - Aristotle

08:45 - 09:00

Registration

09:00-09:15
Florian Fischer, Cord Friebe and Marcello Garibbon - Introduction

09:15-11:00
Tom Crowther - An introduction to Aristotle on time, change and the now

11:30-13:15
Tom Crowther - Aristotle on temporal continuity

Lunch Break

16:00-17:00
Tom Crowther - Reading Session: Passages from “The Physics”

17:15-18:15
Tom Crowther - Reading Session: Passages from “The Physics”

Tuesday, 2 September 2019 - Kant

09:15 - 11:00
Cord Friebe - 
Kant on Real Time I

11:30 - 13:15

Cord Friebe - Kant on Real Time II

Lunch Break

16:00 - 17:00
Marcello Garibbo - 
Reading Session: Passages from Transcendental Aesthetics

​17:15 - 18:15

Marcello Garibbo - Reading Session: Passages from Transcendental Aesthetics
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Wednesday, 3 September 2019 - Bergson

09:15 - 11:00
Mark Sinclair - Bergson
’​s durée and the problem of temporal continuity

11:30 - 13:15
Florian Fischer - 
Bergson and Zeno’s Paradoxes

Lunch Break
16:00 - 17:00
Giulio Piatti -
Reading Session: Passages from “Duration and Simultaneity”

17:15 - 18:15
Giulio Piatti - 
Reading Session: Passages from “Duration and Simultaneity”

Conference
​This summer school is adjoined by a conference: Time Continuum

Call for Participation
​
There are only limited spots available. To apply please sent a letter of motivation (about 1 page) and a CV to garibbo@philosophie.uni-siegen.de and florian.fischer@uni-siegen.de Deadline: 31 March 2019. Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2019.

Organisation
Florian Fischer and Marcello Garibbo

​The summer school“Time-Continuum” is co-organized by the Society for the Philosophy of Time (https://s-p-o-t.weebly.com), the University of Siegen, the Goethe Institut in Genova, the Theatre Spazio Vuoto and the online journal Philosophy Kitchen (http://philosophykitchen.com/).
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  • About
  • Members
  • Events
    • Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Persistence and Modality
    • Synchronic and Diachronic Individuality (in Quantum Physics)
    • Foundations of Synchronic and Diachronic Individuality
    • Time & Consciousness
    • The Phenomenology of Time
    • God and Time IV
    • Somewhere in Time
    • What better time than then
    • Time and Death
    • Time.Image
    • Reassessing Bergson
    • Time Continuum
    • The Metaphysics of Time Continuum
    • God and Time III
    • Agency, Past and Future
    • The Metaphysics of Agency, Past and Future
    • It's a Matter of Time
    • At the Edge of Time
    • Hyperstition
    • The Now Now
    • Change and Change-Makers
    • Der Gegenwartige Augenblick
    • God and Time II
    • Time, What is Time
    • Zeit fur Kant
    • Time after Time
    • It's About Time
    • The Power to Change
    • God and Time
    • Time and Modality
    • The Metaphysics of Time and Modality
    • Tense and Tensibility
    • Powers and Change
    • Time and Change
    • Being in Time
    • New Developments in the Philosophy of Time
    • Tense vs Tenseless Theory
  • Expeditions
    • Change and Change-Makers
    • God and Time
    • Time and Literature
    • Time since the Middle Ages
  • Publications