Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the
Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego. Tim Maudlin is
Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the
John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Craig and Tim
are leading philosophers of science and physics. Craig also
appeared on episode 73, in which he and Robinson discussed
pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. Tim was a guest on episode
46, which covered laws of nature, space, and free will, and
episode 67 with David Albert, which was all about the foundations
of quantum mechanics. In this episode, Craig, Tim, and Robinson
delve into the philosophy of time, touching on the reality of the
past, present, and future, the direction of time, its
relationship to relativity and quantum mechanics, and time
travel. Craig and Tim have both written on time. Check out
Craig’s book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford University Press,
2017) and Tim’s book Philosophy of Physics, Volume 1: Space and
Time (Princeton, 2012). If you’re interested in the foundations
of physics—which you absolutely should be—then please check out
the John Bell Institute, which is devoted to providing a home for
research and education in this important area. At this early
stage any donations are immensely helpful.
Craig’s Website: https://www.craigcallender.com
Tim’s Website: www.tim-maudlin.site
The John Bell Institute: https://www.johnbellinstitute.org
OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
01:12 Introduction
04:43 The A- and B-Series of Time
21:20 Presentism, Possibilism, and Eternalism
42:03 Foliations in Time
57:39 Foliations of Time in Quantum Theory
01:03:30 Superluminal Signaling
01:11:56 The Direction of Time
01:35:24 Philosophy and Time Travel
02:03:07 The John Bell Institute
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and
everyone in-between.
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