The Rise & Fall of Time
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
19-9-2014 10:00 AM
Description
As we navigate through life, we do so with an implicit model of time in mind. Call this manifest time. It deeply matters to us, yet as Dr. Callender will explain, physics has been gradually chipping away at it for a few hundred years. That physics doesn’t vindicate manifest time seemed to Einstein “a matter of painful but inevitable resignation” (as relayed by Carnap). But after displaying physics’ assault on time, Dr. Callender will demonstrate why we needn’t be resigned to science more generally not explaining manifest time. Cognitive science, biology and philosophy all have much to offer – none of it, he submits, painful.
Recommended Citation
Callender, Craig, "The Rise & Fall of Time" (2014). Humanities Symposium. 46.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2014/2014/46
The Rise & Fall of Time
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
As we navigate through life, we do so with an implicit model of time in mind. Call this manifest time. It deeply matters to us, yet as Dr. Callender will explain, physics has been gradually chipping away at it for a few hundred years. That physics doesn’t vindicate manifest time seemed to Einstein “a matter of painful but inevitable resignation” (as relayed by Carnap). But after displaying physics’ assault on time, Dr. Callender will demonstrate why we needn’t be resigned to science more generally not explaining manifest time. Cognitive science, biology and philosophy all have much to offer – none of it, he submits, painful.
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