The Nature of Time

An Interdisciplinary Conference with Perspectives from Physics, Neuroscience and Philosophy on Time and it’s Experience.

Conference Details

Friday, Sept 14th & Saturday Sept 15th, 2018, 9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Barwise Room, Cordura Hall, Stanford University

Featured Speakers:

James Hartle
  Physics, UC Santa Barbara

Dean Buonomano
  Neuroscience, UCLA

Craig Callender
  Philosophy, UC San Diego

Paul Skokowski
  Symbolic Systems, Stanford

Roger Shepard
Psychology, Stanford

Jenann Ismael
  Philosophy, Columbia

David Eagleman
  Neuroscience, Stanford

Ronald Gruber
  Medicine, Stanford

John Perry
  Philosophy, Stanford

Richard Muller
  Physics, UC Berkeley



Conference Videos

Day 1 Videos

The Physics of Now

James Hartle, Physics, UC Santa Barbara

What does the Neuroscience of Time Reveal about the Physics of Time?

Dean Buonomano, Neuroscience, UCLA

Time Lost, Time Regained

Craig Callender, Philosophy, UC San Diego

Time and Experience

Paul Skokowski, Symbolic Systems, Stanford, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Physical and Mental Aspects of Space and Time

Roger Shepard, Psychology, Stanford

Day 2 Videos

Some Questions about the Logic, Metaphysics, and Physics of Totality

Jenann Ismael, Philosophy, Columbia

Time and the Brain: Linking the Objective with the Subjective

David Eagleman, Psychiatry, Stanforda

Recent Experiments To Elucidate The Flow of Time

Ronald Gruber, Medicine, Stanford

“Here”, “Now”, and the Here and Now

John Perry, Philosophy, Stanford

A Theory of ‘NOW’

Richard Muller, Physics, UC Berkeley

 

Conference Program

SCHEDULE:

Day 1:  Friday, September 14th

9:30 AM         The Physics of Now

James Hartle, Physics, UC Santa Barbara

10:40 AM       What does the Neuroscience of Time Reveal about the Physics of Time?

Dean Buonomano, Neuroscience, UCLA

1:00 PM          Time Lost, Time Regained

Craig Callender, Philosophy, UC San Diego

2:10 PM          Time and Experience

Paul Skokowski, Symbolic Systems, Stanford, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford

3:20 PM          Physical and Mental Aspects of Space and Time

Roger Shepard, Psychology, Stanford

Day 2:  Saturday, September 15th

9:15 AM         Some Questions about the Logic, Metaphysics, and Physics of Totality

Jenann Ismael, Philosophy, Columbia

10:25 AM       Time and the Brain: Linking the Objective with the Subjective

David Eagleman, Psychiatry, Stanford

12:40 PM        Recent Experiments To Elucidate The Flow of Time

Ronald Gruber, Medicine, Stanford

1:50 PM          “Here”, “Now”, and the Here and Now

John Perry, Philosophy, Stanford

3:00 PM          A Theory of ‘NOW’

Richard Muller, Physics, UC Berkeley

Conference Sponsors

We are grateful to the Friedkin Foundation, John and Claire Radway, the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Center for the Study of Language and Information for their generous support of this conference.

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