July 28th-Aug 1st — Online
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!
After a fruitful symposium, we’d love to publish your reflections on the philosophy of time. Submit here by August 15th, 2025. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions!
DETAILS
When: July 28th-Aug 1st daily, 9:00 to 10:30 AM PST
Where: Zoom
Who: Anyone interested in learning about philosophy in time!
Cost: Free.
Deadline: [CLOSED].
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Attend a week-long discussion series and philosophical symposium about time with guest presenters and peers. Does time have a direction? How do metaphysical accounts of time coincide with quantum theory? Is time even real?
Participants will be introduced to basics of the philosophy of time and partake in discussion about (and with!) leading philosophers of time. This symposium will culminate in a collaborative project with options for written work.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Professor Jonathan Tallant is a scholar in contemporary metaphysics, currently based at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His research interests centre on metaphysics, the philosophy of science, trust, and the philosophy of education. Professor Tallant has produced an extensive body of work, including several monographs such as “Out of Time: A Philosophical Investigation of Timelessness” (Oxford University Press, 2022) and “Truth and the World: An Explanationist Account” (Routledge, 2017), as well as textbooks on metaphysics. He has published numerous articles in well regarded journals, addressing topics including presentism, grounding, causation, and the nature of trust, and has contributed chapters to major reference works.
Professor Tallant’s research has been recognised both within and beyond academia. Through his work on metaphysics he has served as a philosophical advisor to technology companies, and via his work on trust he has contributed to policy documents such as the UK Parliament’s POSTnote on trust in news providers, and engaged with business and healthcare sectors to apply philosophical analysis to real-world issues.
Dr. Amy Seymour is a Research Fellow at Rutgers University’s Center for the Philosophy of Religion. She is currently writing a book on the nature of suffering, agency, and possibility. Her areas of research and teaching specialization are metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. She is particularly interested in what the world—and time—must be like if persons are free. She earned her PhD from the University of Notre Dame with a dissertation defending the view that the future is open and that future-oriented statements that aren’t presently settled are all false. Seymour is a proud resident of New York City and has discussed (in print!) whether it’s possible for the Mets to win the World Series.
Professor Craig Callender is the Tata Chancellor Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Founding Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and the president of the Philosophy of Science Association. His primary research and teaching focus is the philosophy of science. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997 with a dissertation on quantum mechanics and the direction of time. Today, his book What Makes Time Special? (OUP 2017) won both the 2018 Lakatos Award and the 2022 Suppes Prize. Outside of academia, he enjoys the ocean and races paddle boards and often shares his nature observations on iNaturalist.
Professor Stephan Torre is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. Most of his research concerns first-person (or de se) thought and the philosophy of time. In the philosophy of time, he is particularly interested in the nature of persistence, the A-theory vs B-theory debate, the open future, the semantics of future contingents, and how mental attitudes square with our best physical theories of time. His papers on philosophy of time have been published in Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He is originally from New Jersey.
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