Spring 2013

Overview

This is a graduate-level reading group on the direction of time. The reading list will evolve as the course progresses. A BibTeX file containing all the references below can be found here. Unless otherwise advertised, we meet on Wednesdays at 5:30pm.

Schedule

Wednesday 23 January, Cibon.

• Price, Huw. 1996. Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapters 1–2. [PDF]

Wednesday 6 February, The Old Toad.

• Price, Huw. 2004. “On the Origins of the Arrow of Time: Why There is Still a Puzzle about the Low Entropy Past”, in Hitchcock (Ed), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, Blackwell, Malden MA, pp. 219–239. [PDF]
• Callender, Craig. 2004. “There is No Puzzle About the Low Entropy Past”, in Hitchcock (Ed), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, Blackwell, Malden MA, pp. 240–256. [PDF]

Wednesday 13 February, The Old Toad.

• Price, Huw. 1996. Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapter 5.

Wednesday 20 February, Acanthus.

• Price, Huw. 1996. Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapter 6.

Wednesday 27 February, Acanthus.

• Price, Huw. 1996. Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapter 7.

Tuesday 5 March, 12pm, Seminar Room.

• Maudlin, Tim. 2007. “On the Passing of Time”, in The Metaphysics Within Physics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 104–142

Wednesday 20 March, Seminar Room.

• Loewer, Barry. 2012. “Two Accounts of Laws and Time”, in Philosophical Studies, Vol. 160, No. 1, August, pp. 115–137. URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-012-9911-x

Wednesday 27 March, Seminar Room.

• Albert, David Z. 2000. Time and Chance, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, Chapters 1–2.

Wednesday 3 April, Seminar Room.

• Albert, David Z. 2000. Time and Chance, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, Chapters 3–4.

Wednesday 10 April, 10am, Seminar Room.

• Albert, David Z. 2000. Time and Chance, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, Chapter 6.
• Albert, David Z. forthcoming. “The Sharpness of the Distinction Between the Past and the Future”, in Wilson (Ed), Asymmetries of Chance and Time, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Wednesday 17 April, Seminar Room.

• Kutach, Douglas. forthcoming. “The Empirical Content of the Epistemic Asymmetry”, in Loewer, Winsberg and Weslake (Ed), Currently Untitled, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA. Doug will be visiting us for this session.

Wednesday 1 May, Seminar Room.

• Skow, Bradford. 2013. Objective Becoming, Chapters 10–11. Brad suggests that we also skim Sections 3.1–3.3 for background.