Visiting at PROTEUS 2020/2021
The call for Application for visiting periods (up to 3 months) at Proteus is now open. We now accept applications for the Academic Year 2020/2021. Visiting PhD students and postdocs (up to three years […]
Principal investigator
Dr Silvia De Bianchi
Host institution
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Start date: 1 September 2018
End date: 31 August 2023
Project description
The project is based on two hypotheses:
1) The history of philosophy reveals a guideline that can be traced back to Plato and that characterizes physical and metaphysical approaches to the question of the beginning of the universe in terms of a tension between fundamentality and non-fundamentality of time;
2) There is a conceptual problematic assumption in Western culture and it consists in shaping the problem of the origin of the world as a problem of thinking about the very same conditions of possibility of the origin of a process that is not in time.
The project spells out the conceptual roots of current representations of time in quantum gravity and quantum cosmology and highlights the conceptual break that they provide with respect to philosophical concepts of time portrayed in previous systems.
Proteus explores in detail the notions of time and the paradoxes emerging in the philosophy and cosmology of Plato and Kant and identifies the fundamental characters of emergent time in current quantum gravity theories.
In identifying these fundamental features, Proteus produces conceptual innovation in metaphysics in such a way that philosophical investigation is complementary to the development of current theories.
Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Department of Philosophy & Centre for the History of Science (CEHIC)
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Postdoc in Ancient Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
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Postdoc in Ancient Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
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PhD student in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
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Department of Philosophy
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PhD student in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
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Postdoc in theoretical physics
IFAE
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The call for Application for visiting periods (up to 3 months) at Proteus is now open. We now accept applications for the Academic Year 2020/2021. Visiting PhD students and postdocs (up to three years […]
Program Tuesday 22nd October Sala d’Actes – Philosophy Dept. UAB 10:30-10:45 Introduction, program information/changes 10:45-11:45 Barbara Sattler “Chronos as all-encompassing – Plato’s Unification of Time” 12:00-13:00 Viktor Ilievski “The Demiurge and […]
Abstract This talk deals with the absorber theory of radiation by (Wheeler and Feynman, 1945) and (Wheeler and Feynman, 1949) and advances the idea that the theory is grounded on […]
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