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58 - Huw Price: Philosophy of Time, Boltzmann Brains, and Retrocausality

58 - Huw Price: Philosophy of Time, Boltzmann Brains, and Retrocausality

Robinson's Podcast vor 3 Jahren

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Huw Price is the former Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty
of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and was before that
Challis Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for
Time at the University of Sydney, and then—even before that—was
Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of
Edinburgh. Huw is an expert across a wide variety of subdomains
within the family of philosophy of science and physics, and in
this episode he and Robinson discuss topics drawn from the
philosophy of time, ranging from its flow and direction to its
relationship to causation and quantum mechanics. Huw is also the
author of Naturalism Without Mirrors and Time’s Arrow and
Archimedes’ Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time. You
can keep up with Huw on his website, prce.hu, and via his Twitter
account, @HuwPriceAU.

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction

2:22 Huw's Background

4:23 The A- and B-Series of Time

12:57 The Flow of Time

25:49 Boltzmann Brains

33:30 The Arrow of Time

38:23 The Fixed Past and The Open Future

50:31 Quantum Mechanics and Retrocausality

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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
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