Seminar Archive - Proteus - Paradoxes and Metaphors of Time in Early Universe(s)

The metaphysics of fundamentality, infinitism and multiverse cosmology

19 January 2021 3pm

Matteo Morganti (University of Rome 3)

On line seminar

Abstract There is an interesting, and at least partly unexplored, connection between the recently flourishing debate in metaphysics concerning fundamentality and the structure of reality, and the host of hypotheses […]

15 January 2021

The Eternity is Eternal: Self-Predication in Plato’s Timaeus.

15 December 2020 - 3pm

Celso Vieira - (RUB)

On line seminar

Abstract In Timaeus 38c we read that the Model of Eternity exists through eternity. The implication is that the Form of Eternity is Eternal. Put in this way, it becomes […]

7 December 2020

What Time is Not: εἰκών and ἀριθμός in Plato’s Account of Time in the Timaeus (37d5–7) and the Platonic Tradition

1 December 2020

Thomas Seissl (Vienna)

Online seminar 3pm - to register email silvia.debianchi@uab.cat

Abstract In one of the most famous, but equally obscure passages in the Timaeus, Plato characterises time’s and the heavens’ coming into being as an “everlasting image moving according to […]

29 November 2020

Virtue and Psychic Motion in Plato’s Republic

17 November 2020 - 3.00 pm

Eduardo Saldaña (Geneva)

On line seminar

Abstract In Republic Books 2–3, Plato’s Socrates reflects on the nature of an early education in ethics, consisting of both musical and physical training. A proper education both prepares the […]

9 November 2020

Plato’s “Reasonable Account” as a Living Being. On the Epistemological Status of Timaeus’ εἰκὼς μῦθος

7 May 2020 3.00pm

Federico M. Petrucci (University of Turin)

Online seminar

Abstract Much has been written on the actual meaning of the phrase “εἰκὼς λόγος/μῦθος” occurring in the poem of Timaeus’ tale. However, especially after Myles Burnyeat’s 2005 seminal paper on […]

20 January 2020

Exploring the early Universe through the cosmic microwave background

3 March 2020 3.00pm

Paolo Natoli, Università di Ferrara and INFN

Department of Philosophy, Building B Room B7/1140 Campus UAB

Abstract I will present the tightest observational bounds available on the early Universe, largely based on the legacy of the ESA Planck satellite. The emergent cosmological picture is well consistent […]

20 January 2020

Time and Cosmogony in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

22-23 October 2019

Organizers: Silvia De Bianchi and Daniel Vázquez

Sala d'Actes, Department of Philosophy - Campus UAB

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 […]

26 July 2019

The philosophical underpinning of the absorber theory of radiation

30 May 2019 11.30 am

Marco Forgione (University of South Carolina)

Department of Philosophy, Building B Room B7/1140 Campus UAB

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 […]

21 May 2019

“Evolving Views on Ultraviolet Infinities in Gravity”

16 May 2019 3.00pm

Kellogg Stelle, Imperial College London

Department of Philosophy, Building B Room B7/1140 Campus UAB

6 May 2019

Kant on the Foundations of Mathematics and Cosmology. What Legacy for German Idealism and Beyond?

17-18 September 2019

Organizers: Silvia De Bianchi, Federico Viglione

Sala d'Actes (Department of Philosophy, Campus UAB)

Program Tuesday 17th September Sala d’Actes – Philosophy Dept. UAB 10.30 – 10.45 Introduction, program information/changes 10.45 – 11.45 Lisa Shabel: “Kant’s Schematism” 12.00 – 13.00 Federico Viglione: “The mathematical antinomies: […]

25 April 2019